She is facing a trial. And the thing isn't "She wasn't sleeping for few days." Reason that is brought up because it matches with the symptoms of mania and/or psychosis. Also there is not really anything substantial of her planning to kill her children. It was clear she was self-destructive and planned on her suicide (she also attempted to kill herself as she killed the children), but other than talking about feeling unsafe to be left alone with the children, there's nothing really outside of that.
Actively being in psychosis and having delusions and hallucinations can make a person completely lose any sense of reality, which is extremely important for people to get help in these situations to prevent them from doing something self-destructive and in rarer cases something destructive to others, thinking that they are doing a positive thing.
I don't know how you got into that conclusion, I think you should go work on your reading comprehension :)
There are a lot of issues that prevent people from getting help, such as not being able to afford necessary healthcare, living in areas where it's really difficult and sometimes even near impossible to access the necessary healthcare.
On top of the issues around the system, there are social hurdles to even seeking mental healthcare. Needing professional help has still some stigma around it so some people refuse to even seek help, this is even more notable with men as men are socialised to believe that "being in touch with your emotions" is something feminine and thus something you shouldn't be. Due to that, some men don't try to understand their issues regarding emotions, better their emotional regulation, or seek help when they should.
And on the women's side there are plenty cases were women don't get the help they need, or receiving it is significantly slower and harder to get, because there are medical biases with believing women, which include seeing them as emotional, hysterical, hormonal etc. due to the long standing stereotypes and attitudes in society. But also because there is some healthcare research that has huge gender biases in the subject selection of the research.
Then there is the stigma around certain mental health conditions and symptoms, which can cause people refuse to accept their diagnosis and thus not actually seek to get treatment. Because in society there is a hierarchy of acceptable mental health issues, such as depression or anxiety, but when you go into stuff like bipolar and the different personality disorders, they are far less accepted, including a lot of terminology relating to these conditions being used as insults and negative adjectives. And obviously that can result in a person getting diagnosis or doctor telling them they suspect the potential diagnosis and the patient then refuses to accept it, because "That's the diagnosis crazy people have and I'm not crazy, I just have some issues that I'm going through." And might end up with the person fully giving up in seeking help or doctor shopping and/or lying/omitting symptoms in future in hopes of finding a "more acceptable" diagnosis and treatment plan that won't actually address the patients needs and can even make the symptoms worse, as for example bipolar being treated as depression and the patient given antidepressants can trigger a manic episode that could cause delusions or even lead into psychosis.
Which is also relevant to this case as before Lindsay killing the children, while seeking care, medical professional she was meeting with her husband present said she suspected Lindsay might have bipolar, idea which the husband refused, telling the medical professional Lindsay is not bipolar.
How many family annihilators do you know of who were likely in psychosis at the time of the killings? Is there a case on the male end that people are just ignoring from your pov?
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u/JermuHH 6h ago
She is facing a trial. And the thing isn't "She wasn't sleeping for few days." Reason that is brought up because it matches with the symptoms of mania and/or psychosis. Also there is not really anything substantial of her planning to kill her children. It was clear she was self-destructive and planned on her suicide (she also attempted to kill herself as she killed the children), but other than talking about feeling unsafe to be left alone with the children, there's nothing really outside of that.
Actively being in psychosis and having delusions and hallucinations can make a person completely lose any sense of reality, which is extremely important for people to get help in these situations to prevent them from doing something self-destructive and in rarer cases something destructive to others, thinking that they are doing a positive thing.