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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So now we know she intentionally plotted and planned to kill the kids. 
It wasn't psychosis. Let that be a lesson learned to not really around someone so quickly just because they fit your image of ideal.
So why?
I'd put money on their being marital problems.

She probably found out her husband was cheating or planning to leave and this was her vengeance.
Picture perfect relationship it wasn't 
It's happened before.[/quote]

Any psychiatrists want to weigh in?
Does psychosis have to be spur of the moment decision making?  I believe psychosis and a psychotic break are two different things.  [/quote]

It has been answered over and over again in this thread, with links to experts explaining the facts. NO, psychosis does not prevent a person from methodical planning - a simple Google of psychosis, the hallmarks of the condition and an explanation of how a psychotic person can look perfectly normal and engage in insane behavior moments later is readily available with examples of many cases.

We keep beating the same dead horse here because a whole bunch of people with zero personal experience and very little knowledge of mental illness are weighing in as experts and rejecting outright the actual opinions of experts who have studied psychosis extensively.

Ordering food and mapping the route to the restaurant is a crime tens of millions of Americans engage in regularly. When you think about, some of the evidence the state is trying to marshal as proof of her premeditation is laughable. People are not recognizing that they are seeing slivers of evidence presented in the worst possible light. The jury will see a whole picture, and when they refuse to convict her on the charges they’ll be vilified by all the armchair experts who are clogging up this thread with ignorance.[/quote]

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