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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused. So she was sick enough and able to articulate/present symptoms in order to get her 12-13 drugs, and admitted to McLean? That much we know is true.

...but she *wasn't* articulating/presenting symptoms in order to get the PPA/PPD diagnosis? So the default conclusion is, welp, doctors got it wrong, she was psychotic, and she should walk after murdering her children?

I think she went to Women & Infants in Providence (and why there, btw - nowhere close to Duxbury?), they told her it was GAD only, and when she was told it wasn't PPA/PPD, she spiraled and that's when she self-presented at McLean. McLean (different health system, BTW) came to a a similar conclusion and released her when they deemed her to not be a danger to herself/anyone else.

I totally agree that nobody in their right mind would do what she did. However - if I'm on that jury (and I live in MA, just not in Plymouth County), [b]I'm having a reallll hard time not trusting the experts that treated her[/b] and going with their assessment as legitimate. I can think that she had MH issues that don't absolve her of what she did or needing to serve justice for what she did.[/quote]

A lot may hinge on your reaction to those experts when they testify. My guess is that a provider who diagnosed her with GAD only, with these results, is going to be quite defensive of that, including in ways that may be turnoffs to a jury.

After all, in the alternate theory, that person has to explain why they did not notice that this woman was a narcissist or a psychopath or whatever else is being speculated here. If that happened, it would be a pretty significant medical mistake itself.

Psychiatric patients in crisis are often routed away from closer hospitals and towards those with beds. I don't find the fact that she want to something other that the closest/closer hospital suspicious in any way.  [/quote]

Re: Providence. She probably wanted to be as far away from her work for various reasons. [/quote]

And being a health care provider may also have had an impact on how the people who treated with her assessed her (ie did they probe deeper when she gave them clinical words to describe symptoms, or take her use of those words as proof that she was a reliable informant and leave it at that?). It may even have impacted what they were willing to diagnose. GAD is a pretty low-lift psychiatric diagnosis--not likely to cause her problems being medically cleared for a scheduled return to work, for instance. [/quote]

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