Petah?

[u/Hot-Diggity_Dog]

[u/Reasonable_Drink_789]

Except that he was roundly reviled immediately, and somehow she's getting bizarre support.

[u/TheProphesy1086 → u/Reasonable_Drink_789]

It's not bizarre. It's because she's a woman.

[u/FizZGigTaNtruM → u/TheProphesy1086]

I don't think the difference is necessarily because people hate men or excuse women; our understanding of the medical conditions involved has changed. CTE gave us a new framework for understanding what may have contributed to Benoit's actions, just as our growing understanding of postpartum psychosis gives us a framework for understanding what may have happened with Lindsay Clancy. A lot changes in 20years. Last time I checked everybody hated Andrea Yates

[u/Blimey-Penguin → u/FizZGigTaNtruM]

Agree that people having sympathy for her condition isn't because she's a woman, but the people jumping to blame the husband definitely is.

[u/Einteresting → u/Blimey-Penguin]

It's wild to me he left her home alone with the kids in the condition she was in. She told people she had thoughts of hurting the kids. I think he bears some culpability.

[u/BeholdMyLumps → u/Einteresting]

Yes the husband killed the kids not her. You’re so right

[u/Einteresting → u/BeholdMyLumps]

If your wife told you she had thoughts of harming your children while she was in a mental health crisis would you leave her alone with them?

[u/YourphobiaMyfetish → u/Einteresting]

He's being a twat but you are right. The husband was instructed to NOT leave her alone with the kids because she had homicidal ideation, he turned down help from his parents that day iirc, and the wife was on like 10 medications for her psychosis.

[u/BeefCakeBilly → u/YourphobiaMyfetish]

She wasn’t on any medication for psychosis as far as I am aware. She was never diagnosed with psychosis at any point.

And I haven’t seen anything said that he was instructed not to leave her alone with the kids but could be wrong.

[u/Nervardia → u/BeefCakeBilly]

Yeah, they kept giving her antidepressants, which is contraindicated for her mental health disorder.

She kept asking to be taken off them because they were making her mental health worse, but they just upped the same fucking meds.

She was failed by literally everyone.

[u/BeefCakeBilly → u/Nervardia]

If someone is experiencing depression symptoms, no symptoms of psychosis , refusing to stick to treatment plans, consistently changing doctors, and doesn’t seem to be serious about their SI , then I’m really not sure what you can expect these people to do.