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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, I think she was a regular mom who had debilitating PPD after her 3rd child that turned into postpartum psychosis.  It makes zero sense to me that she would commit this crime, in this way, if she was thinking rationally.

I think all the people insisting that she did this because she's an evil person are afraid to consider the possibility that an otherwise normal person can do something like this when suffering from a severe mental illness.[/quote]

Agreed. Because then they would have to consider the reality that THEY could do this. Truly. That is the reality. This kind of mental break can happen to anyone postpartum. Luckily it is extremely extremely rare (to this severity especially) so doesn't happen to the vast majority of us, but I think people always want to label folks as evil because it protects them from understanding the complexity and all of our vulnerability as humans susceptible to mental illness. I just thank GOD I was not the mom that got this level of mental break.

Lindsay did ask for help multiple times, say to people something wasn't right even after having her initial concerns dismissed by a provider (been there myself) she still told her husband again when having the initial ideations and voluntarily hospitalized herself. Very difficult to do. It just doesn't make sense that she would then have been plotting something unless something had gone very wrong in her brain in those next weeks.[/quote]

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