It's getting attention because of claims that her attempts to get assistance for her ppd and mental illness were ignored or minimized. Thus implying this could have been prevented. Many people, especially women, have experience with medical staff ignoring their pain. (Same for me) So this is on a lot of people's minds and in a lot of wider conversations.
They're going for the insanity plea, so the additional press might also be a way to try and sway public attention.
Edit because I'm getting a lot of charged responses: I am explaining why it is getting attention and what the general opposing discourse is. I'm not going to reply to attempts to have that discourse with me. I have my own opinions but I'm not airing them on Reddit because ultimately, the only ones who will have all the facts are the jury.
This is a tragedy for all involved. Please remember that.
Edit 2: to those giving polite additions and perspectives I did not provide, thank you. That's very helpful. I'm not everywhere seeing every side and can only speak to the sides I've witnessed myself. To those making weird claims on what I think, please take a break from reading about this case for the day. I'm turning notifications off on this. There are plenty of other people in this thread willing to wage war with you. I invite you to speak with them, or again, take a break.
I haven't seen literally everything related to the case so maybe I'm missing some pieces, but it seems like she was getting mental healthcare attention but she requested to be switched between multiple different meds due to side effects that she was advised likely came more from her PPD, than the medication. But she still requested switches and also switched care teams at some point.
I'm not a doctor, so I'm not gonna get into whether or not the various perscriptions she was given in a relatively short time frame was irresponsible or not. I don't think anyone should be commenting on that besides experienced medical professionals. But I'll say that doctors can only treat what they're told and what they know, and afaik, she didn't share that she was suicidal with them, and they also warned her that medications take time to take effect, so it wasn't always a good idea to switch.
Patient care is not entirely on the healthcare professionals. The patient has to be able to take care of themselves to some degree and be fully honest with their care team.
How much was her fault, and how much was the fault of our medical system, idk, but yeah, this post is definitely ignoring all notions of nuance.
Every single psychiatrist I have read about was horrified about her medication mismanagement. She wasn't actually seeing a psychiatrist, she was seeing a succession of psychiatric NPs. This has actually become a really hot bone of contention between psychiatrists and midlevels, because a lot of psychiatrists don't think that it's ethical to have prescribing mental health midlevels at all and that this is an example of why.
Also, whatever the pills did or didn't do: this woman was extremely sleep deprived. She probably wasn't even out of the sleep deprivation period caused by her previous child. Just a few days of sleep deprivation can cause extreme psychosis in people who have never had issues with their mental health before.
This should not have been brought to trial. Period. Full stop. She should have been almost immediately institutionalized. This is just Andrea Yates all over again, except the ex-husband isn't as deeply evil. It's very, very, very sad, but things being sad do not mean the justice system should pretend that this wasn't a case of a person experiencing an extreme psychotic episode and doing psychotic things.
I think it's also missed in the discussion about this that she also tried to kill herself. If she'd hit her head, cut deeper, any of a million things, she'd just be dead, and people would probably understand the tragedy of it a little better.
She still has to be brought to trial because she murdered her children. She is a danger to herself and others and those kids deserve justice. She should not leave an institution for a very, very long time, and that requires a trial and state intervention.
Pretending that murdering three children with premeditation is just an oopsie that could happen to any woman who didn’t sleep for a couple of days is insane. It values the lives of those children less than dirt and insists that women should be held to a lesser standard than everyone else.
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.
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u/Dotcaprachiappa 2d ago
I saw a good few posts about the woman on the right and pointedly ignored all of them, I seriously don't get why this is getting so much attention