that I agree with! I do not believe a drug can make you kill your children. And as a person myself who had the urge to be violent with my husband after I gave birth to our second child I can say that it was my responsibilty to inform my husband and others around me on how I was feeling so as to get help to prevent me doing anything.
Andrea Yates should have known that if she was feeling like she wanted to murder her children that she should have told her hubby, family, the police, CPS, friends, etc.... because that was her responsibility! Also, if it was that bad than she should have just left her family completely, not murder them! She failed and deserves jail for that, not sympathy.
I dont know if Yates was consciously aware of her deads, but I can tell you from personal experience that some psychotropic drugs can due serious damage your thinking, they can chemically re-wire your brain to where your reality changes and some morality can be thrown into confusion. When Paxil tripped me up after a week with no sleep and no food I was obsessed with the thought that there could be no real consequences of life if we believed as Hindu's, Buddhists believed or Atheists believed, I even argued with the psychiatrist that because of this 'epiphany' that mans laws were inconsequential and that because of this murdering somebody is only a temporary and just pain, I only lacked the will power to carry out my sick thoughts, perhaps another day or two I would have found that will power.