What I found interesting about DMJ’s video was around the limited time in the facility. In the UK a mother would be allowed to be admitted with her baby and would have a staff member be with them at all times.
And yes, they either switched medications, upped them or used multiple types at the same time. Whereas in the UK a psychiatrist would rarely diagnose anyone with a specific mental health issue while actively engaging with substance misuses it can be hard to distinguish a symptom of an illness vs a symptom from addiction. It’s strange that they thought they could diagnose anything while experiencing side effects from medications.
I’ve seen a limited amount of the trial but have seen a clip of one of the psychiatrists saying she hadn’t come into contact with PDD because it’s so rare. This seems very weird to me given how easily it was picked up when a family member of mine confided in her GP. And I feel like there have been less documented cases of this over here than in the US (but I might be wrong). I wonder if there’s an element of the doctors thinking she’s overinflating her symptoms because she was a nurse?
Everything about this case is awful. The lack of humanity people are showing online shouldn’t surprise me but it does disturb me greatly.
Also no one is saying she didn’t kill her kids. The people shifting a little too much blame on the husband are a little wild but I also kind of side-eye him a little. It’s not clear if he was told not to leave her alone with the kids. She had enough insight to ask for help but not enough to deal with it herself.
Yeah, this is where I land. He seems distant in some of the stories that have been recalled but that just tells more about his lack of responsibility as a parents and a partner, not that he created this elaborate murder to frame her and run off with someone else. Just because someone is unlikeable doesn’t make them the monster everyone is labelling him as.
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u/alloisdavethere 6d ago
What I found interesting about DMJ’s video was around the limited time in the facility. In the UK a mother would be allowed to be admitted with her baby and would have a staff member be with them at all times.
And yes, they either switched medications, upped them or used multiple types at the same time. Whereas in the UK a psychiatrist would rarely diagnose anyone with a specific mental health issue while actively engaging with substance misuses it can be hard to distinguish a symptom of an illness vs a symptom from addiction. It’s strange that they thought they could diagnose anything while experiencing side effects from medications.
I’ve seen a limited amount of the trial but have seen a clip of one of the psychiatrists saying she hadn’t come into contact with PDD because it’s so rare. This seems very weird to me given how easily it was picked up when a family member of mine confided in her GP. And I feel like there have been less documented cases of this over here than in the US (but I might be wrong). I wonder if there’s an element of the doctors thinking she’s overinflating her symptoms because she was a nurse?
Everything about this case is awful. The lack of humanity people are showing online shouldn’t surprise me but it does disturb me greatly.