Posted by Krazy Kat on March 14, 2002, at 10:50:51
In reply to Little sister ..., posted by Willow on March 13, 2002, at 22:10:22
I want to add to this thread, but carefully, gingerly. I hope that is how this comes out.
I know what psychosis is - a ghost that lives in our house tells me to leave, to walk out the door and never look back. I have come perilously close to doing this. Voices tell me to kill myself, to harm myself often. I have never been compelled to hurt others, though. Why the difference? I don't know.
This is a sad case for those of us who understand how reality blurs with the "other side".
But I still have to defend the outcome - I cannot think of those children and not wish some sort of pain on Andrea Yates. Why wasn't the woman who drowned her two children in the lake considered mentally ill by the public? Why didn't she receive any sympathy?
I don't believe in the death penalty. I don't believe in our penalty system - it just doesn't work. I do believe five children, five, are dead and that this woman owes penance. I find her husband reprehensible, but don't believe he can be held responsible for her actions.
I cry for the children, not Andrea Yates.
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