Comments on: Crazy Mother: A Tragedy in Torrance

By: Rachael

Rachael — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 01:34:15 +0000

These comments and the reaction to this person’s crime remind me of that part in the movie “As Good as It Gets” where the woman asks Jack Nicholson’s character, “How do you write women so well?” He replies “I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.” If a man stabbed his three children and climbed into bed with them he would be rightly despised by the entire civilized world, and no one would dare slight the lives of his dead kids by saying he had “too many” of them. That woman did something heinous and our first reaction shouldn’t be to make excuses for her.

By: Dru

Dru — Wed, 28 May 2014 20:20:42 +0000

I’m thinking what you’re thinking too, Sister. This is a seriously ill woman, and unlike the UCSB shooter, I don’t think she lived her life wanting to be a violent murderous asshole.

By: Silvia

Silvia — Wed, 28 May 2014 10:50:28 +0000

Hang on. The husband was at home working on a car and didn´t notice anything wrong? It took his mother to come home to find out? Red flags all over the place indeed.

Your Andrea Yates article was the best thing I have read in ages. Thank you, SisterWolf for being amazing.

By: zentalfloss

zentalfloss — Tue, 27 May 2014 22:23:59 +0000

The area where this took place is not a good area, as you can tell. It’s “county” between Torrance and Carson, and a lot of tweakers live in these parts.

So it could be a myriad of things from genetically based and/or post-partum depression, a lack of resources, a poor marriage to a real clueless guy, too many kids too quickly, and possibly drug addiction or other substance abuse.

Andrea Yates not only had post-partum depression, she had also previously been diagnosed as schizophrenic, too. I wonder if the same could be said for this woman – hopefully, it will be discovered.

I also hope she ends up in treatment, not just in prison. Unfortunately, Andrea Yates is just in prison with no treatment for her psychiatric illnesses (well, they probably give her pills every day, but she gets no therapy in prison, I’m guessing). These are cases that really cry out for some sort of psychiatric treatment, not just a life-long prison sentence, although of course, justice demands more than just a cushy hospital bed.

By: me again

me again — Tue, 27 May 2014 21:04:11 +0000

Dealing with 3 kids that age AND a keeping a house clean is not doable for most people let alone a depressed woman.

By: scout finch

scout finch — Tue, 27 May 2014 17:40:22 +0000

I’m thinking DESPAIR, writ large

By: Suspended

Suspended — Sun, 25 May 2014 16:00:06 +0000

Poor woman, I hope they look after her and give her the care she so obviously needs. I’m not sure one could ever recover from a breakdown of this degree; Living with the pain of three dead children, by your own hand, would be enough to keep most of us in permanent mental stasis.

I can’t understand what pushes a person to kill their own children. It seems there must always be other options. I’m not judging, I just don’t get it.

By: bianca

bianca — Sun, 25 May 2014 04:29:40 +0000

tragedy. and then Im thinking Idiocracy.

By: Dj

Dj — Sat, 24 May 2014 23:24:09 +0000

Very sad and disturbing. Her husband deserves his future lifetime of grief…

By: Nienke

Nienke — Sat, 24 May 2014 11:41:52 +0000

I’m thinking the same exact thing as you.
I feel somewhat relieved after reading your Andrea Yates post. I’m not a mom, nor will I be one for a while, but it feels reassuring to know that I will not be the only one feeling overwhelmed by being a mother when the time comes. All moms struggle at one point or another. Thank you.