I’m curious what triggered her meltdown with your husband. I think that’s an important part of the story- not to blame him, but to better understand something about her psychology. We do know that people with bipolar disorder and substance addiction are not necessarily ever “well” even when medicated and sober.

That’s because she likely saw some things online that she wish she hadn’t. At age 10 I learned about sex from reading a book in my parent’s library, Happy Hooker. I wish I hadn’t- reading about a prostitute and her clients and graphic sexual activities was not what a young girl needed for sexual education.

Note that Jezebel also posted the photos- and a link to more photos. Jezebel, no one gave consent for these photos to be released.

I do too.... I often confuse The Providence Journal with The Onion.

Getting awfully close to infanticide with this reasoning. At 24 weeks the baby is viable and we would normally try to save him- why treat an “unwanted” baby differently? In fact, there is likely an adoptive family that would make that baby, even with special needs, wanted again.

There is no evidence anywhere that our president thinks the country was “born out of evil”. The country is transforming- it is becoming much more diverse, much more liberal as a nation. Some people- Conservative White Christians among them- feel the country is leaving them behind. They are feeling insecure and are…

It has already been deemed legal and acceptable to bar some people from exercising this right: Convicted felons, persons adjudicated as mentally defective, and some others are prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition in the U.S.

And it’s not just a hormone- based phenomenon- there is such a thing as post-adoption depression too. In some ways there is even more stigma about PAD- adoptive parents are supposed to be nothing but thankful and jubilant with their ready-made child home. Yet their lives also have been completely turned upside down…

“I know it’s often sexist and paternalistic to tell women to not do anything too rash because they might change their minds about having kids later on. But it can also be the truth.” Would this not apply to men as well?

There is such a thing as private property- outside.

did you miss her explanation that she tried talking about it multiple times and tried different strategies with no success? What else is there to do- stop/ leave.

I’m struck that you still married this woman! It just sounds like an awful dynamic involving intimacy, kind of key in a relationship.

However, that does not mean that that a dysfunctional, enmeshed relationship was not also part of the picture. From a clinical standpoint, violence and filicide is viewed as a means for the child of such a relationship to separate psychologically and establish a separate identity- something that seems impossible as…

President Obama, how about helping more refugees from the Middle East crisis settle in the USA? Then more children would indeed have a chance of growing up and sharing these wonderful values with our country.

You are right about the incorrect use of the word “benefitting”. However, it is not clear to me that she was seeking a profession in the highly competitive world of academia with an MA anyway. My point is that her education and job history is meaningful in the context of any mental health case. The fact that she was…

It’s perhaps more telling that he didn’t. They were both considered smart, eccentric people- he was considered more warm and kind.

Are you kidding me? Someone with a Yale education should not be expected to have more professional success than someone from rural Appalachia? Do we really need a research study to prove that correlation? Yes, there will be exceptions to the pattern- and yes, such an exception could be meaningful in a case like this.

Stigma against the mentally ill traded for stigma against the developmentally disabled. Good going.

We can’t help those who do not want it. Do not seek it. And people have the right to turn down our help.

I always thought “hot and bothered” was just used in a sexual context?