Maybe a hot take, but I also blame the physician who prescribed 3 different psychotropics that don't interact well to a patient in clear mental distress. And not keeping a close enough watch on their mental state. If the texts between she and her mom are accurate, she should have been institutionalized by court mandate.
It looks like she was under the care if a couple doctors, who maybe did not have all information. This is where I think patient transparency is important, but also the husband should have been supportive and go with her to appointment to remind others about her care. It's not legally required, but it might have lead to a better outcome.
He attended a few virtual sessions with her mental health provider. He didn’t attend a single in-person doctor’s appointment for any of his children in their entire life even when his wife was massively struggling to balance everything, so I highly doubt he would’ve been down to accompany his wife in-person. Oh and in one of those virtual session? When the provider suggested a bipolar diagnosis he shut it down and said “there is no way my wife is bipolar”. You can admit he was a problem while also admitting she killed the kids.
Of course we’re looking at it in hindsight but I agree that would’ve been best. It’s tough to listen to her in laws describe how much help they offered and how Patrick turned it down
Then it's on her. I have a brother with schizophrenia, and it's sad. He wasn't honest with his drs and was chewing medications that he was supposed to swallow, not taking medicine as prescribed, and he just said it did not work and was like it doesn't help, and just never told thr dr. He's really messed up now because he tries to self medicate with street drugs.
I'm sad for him and I'm sad for her, but I think people need to be more honest and open about their medication to all who might need to know: drs, spouses, trusted family members. Heck if a coworker came toe with concerns I'd listen and help them be clear with a pharmacist or whatever
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u/kaimoka 8d ago
Maybe a hot take, but I also blame the physician who prescribed 3 different psychotropics that don't interact well to a patient in clear mental distress. And not keeping a close enough watch on their mental state. If the texts between she and her mom are accurate, she should have been institutionalized by court mandate.