Topical - this week is Maternal Mental Health Week. https://maternalmentalhealthalliance.org/
(That's the front page, but linked to it is a report MMHA did about maternal mental health during the pandemic.)
I'm glad at least one person chimed in.
I was going to chime in and demand equal time for all the good parts of having a complete break from reality, but it seemed inappropriate, so I stopped.
sorry heebie it's just so upsetting i can't even read the article, just terrifying particularly when we as a society treat even healthy new mothers so cruelly.
She wasn't actually treated horribly! She has a loving spouse and family that grow very concerned and have her committed. She spends a month in a facility - and doesn't imply she was mistreated in any way - and is able to make a full recovery.
I mean, no pressure. You definitely don't have to read it.
I read the article! Uncharacteristically, I didn't have anything in particular to say about it though.
Same here. It's such a horrifying problem, but the story itself was one where everything seemed to be handled as well as possible.
There's not necessarily much to say. Maybe that's what I found interesting: that the article was stripped bare of the usual extra mistreatment or mistakes or human cruelty, and just laid out the mental illness experience itself.
I read it! PPD is terrifying and her case was handled about as well as could be hoped. It made for an odd read given how it's normally treated (everyone realized This Wasn't Normal, prioritized giving her support and protecting the baby, and the treatment worked) in the press
This is why so many people are trying to get babies by teaching young women how to spin straw into gold.
Damn. Psychosis is scary in general but psychosis brought on by the most sensitive life condition is super freaky. She does seem exceptionally well provisioned and supported, but it should be accessible to all.
Ironically I came on to say I'm doing pretty good! Zoloft plus talk therapy on the phone every couple of weeks has been super helpful. My mother in law is still very sick and my family house is still a wreckz so those are two things hanging over us, but we moved into a cottage Ina great, walkable neighborhood, and as a family unit we are much better and my baby is doing really well. Thanks for giving me a place to vent, it helped.
I spend most of.my time at the other place. If you're friends with me there him and want a pic, hit me up in DM.
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Ben Cardin succession 2024: blue/red? How's it looking?
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12: Yes, very glad to hear it.
We had a woman in MA kill her kids and try to kill herself. She was a nurse at MGH in Labor and Delivery. It looks like she was getting some help, because it sounds like a lot of meds were prescribed - her lawyer is claiming too many - but it either wasn't enough or it wasn't the right kind. She was white, so there's been pressure to throw the book at her, because they threw the book at a black woman instead of, I don't know, figuring out how to treat the black woman better. Maybe murder isn't the right thing to call these killings.
Ok, Lindsay Clancy wasn't postpartum, because I just checked and her kids were 3 and 5, but it was still a horrible mental health thing. And I suspect that part of why she wasn't helped is that she worked at a hospital.
Maybe murder isn't the right thing to call these killings.
I would have thought that it clearly isn't the right thing to call them because she's got a solid defence against murder on grounds of insanity, therefore no murders occurred. I think they're just "killings".
She was white, so there's been pressure to throw the book at her, because they threw the book at a black woman
There are two sorts of people: one thinks that justice is no one escaping a punishment that they deserve; the other that justice is no one suffering a punishment they do not deserve. The second sort are right.
I would rather 703 guilty people go free than 4 innocent people be punished. But I won't take the ratio any higher.
18: I think California got rid of the insanity defense. But it was preserved in so much as the prosecution had to prove the requisite intent.
They also did something in California for battered women where they had evidence that self defense instincts would be triggered in someone bay much lower threshold if they had been beaten, so that almost anything might lead to their responding with lethal force to someone who had been beating them for.a while.
Florida got rid of it too, because they can't tell anymore.
Ben Cardin succession 2024: blue/red? How's it looking?
Maryland is one of the bluest states. That seat is a lock for whichever Dem wins the primary.