[Seamoth]

Part of the problem with insanity is from the inside it looks perfectly normal, the more seriously whacked people don't know they're not normal.

I have had experience with it. One of my loved ones had an interesting reaction to a medication. However, in this case, this person went from 100% sane to 0% sane in the snap of a fingers. Andrea Yates did not go from being fully aware of her actions to having no awareness in 1 day; it took 5 years. She should've sought help before she reached that 0% point.

However, if as another poster has pointed out, she did seek treatment and was refused it, it's much harder to blame her.

[LA Woman3]

http://www.chron.com/

Clickable timeline of the Yates case....

[discostu]

Gradual changes are harder to spot, it's the old turn the heat up on the frog slowly thing. Think of it like aging, slowly but surely you get more aches and pains and less physically capable but until something big happens you don't really notice. The problem with insanity compared to aging is part of going nuts inhibits your ability to notice at all, your entire concept of the world filters through your brain, if there's something wrong with your brain how can you know your filtered view is way off.