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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This post really describes what I was saying yesterday that deep mental illness can, at times, be harder to pick up on than many people realize 
Post from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/lindsayclancy/comments/10xh6r7/my_mom_tried_to_kill_us_both_and_no_one_knew_she/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

“My mom tried to kill us both and no one knew she was experiencing psychosis. Some perspective.

I’m withholding all judgement on this case until there are more details. Even then, this is a real family dealing with unrecoverable loss, not daytime tv.

However, I keep seeing comments claiming Lindsay couldn’t have been experiencing psychosis and that the murders must have all been premeditated acts of pure evil. Maybe that’s true, maybe it isn’t.

My mom is my best friend, my number one supporter and confidant. But when I was a teenager she almost killed us both.

My mom had always been anxious but was generally mentally stable, a loving parent, etc etc. She’s the strongest person I know and genuinely doesn’t have a mean bone in her body, she’s close with her (now adult) children, and overall just a very kind person.

Until my brother died suddenly, one of the first unfortunate cases in Canada of death due to fentanyl contamination. He wasn’t into hard drugs. No one saw it coming. My mom took it incredibly hard, but amazed everyone with the strength to keep living for me, who was a minor and still living at home.

Five months after his death, my mom suddenly seemed to be getting back to normal, as much as any mother could. She became obsessed with doing a house reno, diying all the work herself. It all looked horrible but she was so happy about her work that no one tried to stop her. She had energy again, was productive and seemed to have things under control.

Her zeal started to make me feel uncomfortable during that final week. She stayed up all night painting rooms, laying flooring. She tried to drug me with benzos so that I wouldn’t have to experience our car going over the cliff.

Even though she seemed mostly normal, she was consumed by the urge to end our lives. She was convinced that if she left me alone and alive, that I wouldn’t go to heaven with her and my brother and instead I’d be trapped in the walls of our house. Literally. She was convinced that there was an evil force in our walls and that’s why she wa doing the renovations.

Our car went off the road that day but it was harder to drive off the cliff than my mom had thought and we got stuck on the brush. She was admitted to the hospital because she tried to convince the emts and cops that they needed to drive us over the cliff because the new Sheetrock on the walls wasn’t going to hold the devil for much longer.

She didn’t sound crazy. She sounded desperate - like she was pleading for our lives. It almost had me convinced that maybe she knew something I didn’t.

Point is, psychosis isn’t always obvious. I fully believe my mom would have killed is that day because she truly believed it was our only option.

Whatever the reason for this awful event, I hope that the husband finds some way to continue on.”[/quote]

I shared a similar story with my own mom a few pages back. I don't know if there are any studies of surviving children of psychotic mothers, but my feelings about what happened are similar to the reddit poster. I've felt anger and sorrow about what happened, but I can't blame my mother because she truly was not in control of her mind or actions.[/quote]

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