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Originally Posted by Nephythys
Oh, and I DO hate Andrea Yates and will forever- that event haunts me to this day......God can forgive her, I won't.
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I can understand how that would haunt you so and can understand the reasons for your hatred. I won't tell you shouldn't hate her. You have that right.
I can't go there though. Perhaps it is my experience witnessing someone very close to me that went through a horrible depression, one that didn't have a happy ending. I've seen how a chemical imbalance can change a person so much so that you don't feel that you know them at all and they have no ability to rationally think things through like you or I might be able to. I remember pleading with this person to just talk to someone on a professional level, knowing that there was help available for them but they refused. In their way of thinking, they hadn't changed, everyone else had.
The system failed Andrea Yates miserably. She slipped through the cracks and even her husband failed to get her the help she needed. There had to be plenty of warning signs there and they should have been acted on. She should have never been left alone with those children, not for a moment.