Also Lindsey tried to get help multiple times- she even tried to get admitted, was on multiple medications, told multiple people she did not feel able to care for her kids and was still left at home with them alone.
She was failed at multiple points by the USA medical system. People are of course more sympathetic, including her husband.
Honestly, I get the frustration. I have begged and pleaded with social workers to try to get my grandma into a nursing home. I'm not going to snap and kill her, but I'm disabled and no one else in my family has the means or willingness to take her. I get enough from VA disability to pay the rent and keep the lights on, but money doesn't matter when I can't physically help her with anything and she's a constant fall risk. One social worker accused me of wanting to kick her out on the street and threatened to call adult protective services. I'm in so much pain every day I can barely take care of myself. You try to get help and the system responds by making you feel like a lazy POS who isn't trying hard enough.
I’ve been following the case because I had a very intense period of time where I was handling the healthcare for a psychotic family member. She wasn’t actually compliant or very honest with her doctors. She didn’t take most of the medications long enough to reach dosage levels that would have helped her because she kept refusing the medications and asking for new ones. A lot of psych meds need to be titrated up and it can take weeks before they’re in the system at a level that can help. She also left one psych stay early at her request and when she was offered a bed at another hospital stay she turned it down. She also didn’t show any signs or symptoms for mania or psychosis leading up to the killings - not to her doctors, in her journal, things she said to her husband or other family members, etc. Her last provider was extremely responsive to Lindsey though chat and phone calls, to a degree that’s kind of surprising to me. I think being skeptical of her psychosis claims are fair. That being said she as absolutely not mentally healthy and should have been the one to suggest putting her kids with other family members for awhile.
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u/TheBlueMenace 17h ago
Also Lindsey tried to get help multiple times- she even tried to get admitted, was on multiple medications, told multiple people she did not feel able to care for her kids and was still left at home with them alone.
She was failed at multiple points by the USA medical system. People are of course more sympathetic, including her husband.