No quote, if you click the link then you can't get mad at me for not warning enough...
I usually don't post these kinds of stories but it disturbed me so much... I just don't understand... Obviously something mentally wrong but what, why would someone do something like this? And the older boy... the most heartbreaking sentence I ever read was him describing what happened... I just can't imagine a child living through that...
Originally Posted by Arwyn
I'm thinking post-partum depression/psychosis?
I don't know. It sounds like maybe she was angry and blaming the children for the earlier accident. I mean, I can understand being angry with them. I've pulled my van over and had a pretty stern talking with my children about fighting in the car and me needing to be able to focus on the traffic. However, to take it to that extreme? I hope I'm wrong. The thought that went into it beforehand - unbelievable. Those poor children.
(Of course, it's hard to know exactly WHAT her reasoning was from a short news article.)
The fact that she planned the thing in advance and planned to blame someone else makes me think it wasn't PPD. Not saying that there isn't something "off" with her there could be.
Originally Posted by ChattyCat
That's what I thought too. Her first attempt didn't work, so she planned a second. If she was that ill, I can't imagine how nobody noticed.
Add a third to I think the accident was a planned attempt on herself and the boys.
Originally Posted by ChattyCat
That's what I thought too. Her first attempt didn't work, so she planned a second. If she was that ill, I can't imagine how nobody noticed.
You'd be surprised how people hide their thoughts and feelings when they're planning something. I think that's one of the things that haunts survivors of tragedies, that feeling of I should have known.
My dh's previous wife made a successful suicide attempt after years of supposedly helpful psychiatric intervention. He has so much guilt about the 'I should have known,' and so much anger at the people who were 'helping' her, it's unreal.
it does sound a bit like post-partum psychosis (not depression) but then the planning throws that off. the accident sounds like that though. it i horrible. i feel so sad for the little boy. i can't imagine how horrible this is for him.
I also thought the ar accident sounded like a first suicide attempt. What a horrible situation for them all (the mother, the son, and their family) to have to live with now.
Originally Posted by jeca
The fact that she planned the thing in advance and planned to blame someone else makes me think it wasn't PPD. Not saying that there isn't something "off" with her there could be.
Something would definitely have to be "off" for a mother to kill her child. I'm curious to know if her husband had any inkling she might have been having some "issues". Men can be so freaking clueless about those things. I'm being reminded of Rusty Yates.
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