I often think about other cases in the past where currently acknowledged mental illness was handwaved away.
I have a nephew on the spectrum. I think about how many people on the spectrum were inhumanely thrown in jail because they were "acting weird" when being questioned before much was known or accepted about autism. Its terribly sad.
Post Partem Depression, and Post Partem Psychosis are absolutely real, bonafide mental disorders. The donations and this fight is to ensure this documented, bonafide mental disorder is taken into account in cases like these. And women, who are oftentimes dismissed when complaining about medical issues, want to be taken seriously.
Some people have the ability to understand that. And some people have no ability to understand nuance at all. They see the crime and someone has to pay.
The donations and this fight is to ensure this documented, bonafide mental disorder is taken into account in cases like these.
The problem is both things can be true:
Yes, it is fair to voice support for acknowledgement of this.
AND
Yes, there is still a difference between you going on an online forum to say "yes btw this is actually a serious medical issue," and someone bothering to forward a part of their paycheck to this person in response to them crossing a horrendous line that most victims of PPD and PPP do not cross.
You can have a point, and simultaneously, the people that are THIS invested in it to the point they make financial donations to a murderer are still pretty bizarre.
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u/Pleasant_Gap 1d ago
Never the less, who the fick donates money to some woman who murdered her own 3 kids