Yes- some good people. People who cared, who helped others. I was close with one schizophrenic especially. It's progressive. There's no good treatment. She really fears her future. She's so good; it's hard to know that her connection to reality will decay. She endangers herself.
Others, many. People fall down, and it gets whispered around...it's not THAT uncommon. I also knew a homeless boy who at first seemed rational- but when he got to trust you, and opened up to you, he'd reveal that he was actually a mystical being with all sorts of powers...that's what he KNEW. BIG potential to hurt self and others there- but essentially a kind person.
Ah, sh!t- this better NOT have "sleeping on the couch" type consequences...
Heheheh.
Listen, fella, you get yourself knocked up, it's your spawn, not mine.
That stated, I think I'll just enjoy the bonding...oh, hey- you've got an impressive amount of your memory neurons allotted to the methodology of murder...nice schematics for home-made "fire-works..."
Your Mommy did what to you?!! Really, she made you wear THAT?!! Good Lord...
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When I first heard about this story I was totally shocked and couldn’t believe that a person could be capable of doing something such as this to a 11 month old child. What makes it even worse is the fact that there are people out here that feel sorry for the mother just be cause she had Postpartum disorder, and that she shouldn’t be held accountable for her actions because she wasn’t of right mind.
I truly don’t believe that she should get off just because she has a mental problem of some kind, needless to say it might just be possible it might happen. The way that the judicial system works these days if she gets off just because she was depressed, I wonder how many more children are going to end up dead.
No- it's not merely depression that would be the deciding factor- it's whether she was psychotic, unable to perceive reality, unable to tell right from wrong. And children dying- Good Lord, look into it just a bit- children are being murdered daily by perfectly sane folk, and will continue to be their victims. It's not the occaisional psychotic you should be focused on, but the user/abuser/discarders that are so common. Punishment may have a dissuasive effect on them, but not on psychotics- they're unlikely to appreciate legal consequences with the perspective a sane person would have. She shouldn't be made an example- if the evidence is there that she is prone to a mental disorder of this severity (past history, current evaluation)- well, that isn't something one can simply fake. It's been tried. I would insist on seeing substantative evidence of her psychosis before I went with "not guilty by reason of insanity," myself. It looks possible that the evidence exists.
__Putting her in a hospital isn't going to encourage any bad person with a lick of sense to assume that they can finangle the same results. The papers will report the nature of the evidence, and it will be impressive, as it must be, if it gets her acquitted. It will be made clear that our legal system doesn't go by just a current pretense of insanity, but insists on a history and other supporting information.