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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not have sympathy for her.  She must have been acting normal or her husband wouldn’t have gone out for take out and left her alone with the kids.  She had enough self control to act fine and wait until he left to then strangle her three children one by one, and at least one of them put up a big fight.  This does not sound like an out of control psychotic break to me.  It seems like premeditated murder after lying in wait.  I also do not know how her husband is singing the praises of the person who strangled his children less than a week ago.  On a go fund me to raise money for himself no less.  There is more to this story.[/quote]

Yes, there is.

You do not understand mental illness, apparently. You REALLY do not understand psychosis. You think a psychotic break happens all at once, in a splashy way that everyone can recognize for what it is? Sometimes, sure. I've worked with suicidal people for years, and they do not always look SAD, PP. They don't always look depressed. Sometimes when someone has made a decision to end their life, they look happy, calm, normal. They might look like a person who is totally capable of sitting on the couch watching TV while you step out to pick up takeout for half an hour. They don't always/often look like whatever kind of raving lunatic you think they're supposed to look like.[/quote]
Deciding to end your own life in suicide is not really comparable to killing three kids. Who thinks that suicidal people are supposed to look like raving lunatics?[/quote]

You are talking about the results of decisions. I am talking about the state of mind those decisions are being made in. You are assuming that this person was making conscious, intentional decisions with the understanding of the results those decisions would have.

What I am saying, as a person who has worked with people experiencing all different kinds of psychosis, including postpartum psychosis, is that they are not operating with the same reality-based instructions that you are. They are not in their right minds at all. Everything in your post assumes that this is a person who was intentionally doing the things she did, concealing her intentions from her husband. My point is that you have absolutely no idea what her experience of the psychosis was. She could have truly believed that she was saving her children. She could have truly believed that her husband was a threat. She could have truly believed she was being controlled by an external entity. That is what psychosis is. It's not a bad person waiting for a good person to go away so they can do bad stuff.[/quote]

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