Posted on 04/16/2005 3:16:48 PM PDT by familyop
I've never believed in making excuses for murder or anything else. But I do believe there are reasons things happen. Some of which aren't rational or make any amount of sense. I for one do not want to make any Excuses for violence nor do I want to breed hatred and contempt. I just try and comprehend and understand the reasons without excusing the behavior.
So you believe there's no chemical therapy that helps the mentally ill?
So you don't think the woman was mentally ill?
Honestly, I've run across people with post partum depression.
I don't think this was post partum depression.
But you just DID make excuses.
She knew well enough to call the hotline to save her own life.
She knew what she did was wrong.
I am sure that I did not say that there is no chemical therapy that helps the mentally ill. I would, however, say that I know that the public thinks that psychotropics make people well when they do not. Many problems ensue. I knew a man who jumped in front of a train a couple of weeks ago. He had recently been hospitalized, medicated, and released. Happens all of the time.
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