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Post partum depression is also getting a tad overused don't ya think?! You kill 5 kids and it's post partum depression. What about in the 50's when everyone had 10-15 kids? Everyone in our neighborhood when I was growing up had at least 7-8 kids and several had 10 and more and none of the kids ended up dead cause the mom was a little blue! These shrinks are handing out these labels like candy- bipolar-post partum depression etc. DEAL WITH IT! I know someone whose kid was feeling depressed. Mom sent him to a shrink and he came home an hour later with a label, yes Bipolar and a handful of pills! After one hour! She threw the pills out. The kid is out of his slump and doing fine!

IT isn't the number of kids you have it is that you have any at all. It is a proven medical condition in some women that is more than feeling blue. What Andrea did was wrong but check out her history of depression and being treated and institutionalized. It is remarkable that any doctor let her go. It is also remarkable that her husband allowed her to be alone with those children even for the one hour that she was allowed. The woman was clearly sick. Like I said the history is remarkable. I think the system, the doctors, her family, and husband all failed at some point in her journey to murder. Are they to blame in any way? No. It is 100% Andrea's fault. I just don't want post partum depression to be dismissed as an excuse. Not always true. Just because you have never experienced it or know anyone to suffer from a real medical depression doesn't mean it isn't real and hell.