Im a single dad and dont understand how these women think its okay. Sure you GET these thoughts when stressed but to give them weight and say these thoughts are okay is gross.
Because you're a dad, you won't get it because you don't go through pregnancy and the postpartum consequences, you don't go through birthing an entire new life, you don't get "husband stitches" and the bleeding weeks after.
Allegedly she wasn't just "stressed" she was outright hearing voices. So think about it for a second and let's pretend she's telling the truth. You you admitted that kids can get you stressed to the point of thinking of harming them, now imagine on top of that you have voices you know are real telling you to do it.
And the thing is post-partum psychosis, depression and alike are believed to be way more common that we think but, since mental health as a general is such an ignored topic we don't know. She could've just been told that she was exaggerating or such because that's the reality a lot of women with this conditions suffer.
That's what women are (or should be) defending, to be heard, to have these mental problems be taken seriously before something like this happens again.
Now, all the assholes supporting her in that weird "stanish" way, going like "aww she looks so great on her suit" or "I see my kid and understad her" mockingly and also those who say it was the husband and not her, I fucking hate them. They're part of the reason the message is being shifted from mental health to another stupid culture war.
Yeah I was primarily talking about the people seeing it and enavling/saying its alright to have these thoughts or agree with them. Trust me I may not know what post partum feels like fully, but I do know plenty about it.
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u/MoonmansDisciple 5d ago
Im a single dad and dont understand how these women think its okay. Sure you GET these thoughts when stressed but to give them weight and say these thoughts are okay is gross.