More than one of the doctors that Andrea Yates has seen, sees a sick person which they view her. Yates had been diagnosed with several disorders and among them was postnatal psychosis. Postnatal disorders can be as short lasting as “baby blues”, to postnatal depression, to psychosis. The three categories branches from postpartum psychiatric illness. About 85% of women suffer with some sort of mood disturbance after giving birth to a child.
For example, Anas is a 53-year old woman who is currently working with prisoners who have gone through abortion trauma. Through this she reflects on the pain that her own abortion brought her at 19years old, “But after the procedure, she says, strange feelings washed over her. I remember having evil thoughts, about hurting children, she said. It was like I'd done the worst thing I could possibly do. A piece of evil had entered me.” (Bazelon, 2007) We cannot assume all patients have the same post trauma, this woman may have had a psychological disorder, or received extreme amounts of pressure or stress before encountering her abortion.
She said Casey had given varied explanations as to Caylee’s whereabouts and finally amitted that she had not seen her daughter for weeks. Casey had told the police many different stories like her kid had been kidnapped by a nanny on June the 9th, and that she had been trying to find her whereabouts and she was too frightened to alert the police. With the child still missing , Casey was charged with first degree murder in October and pled not guilty. The little girl’s skeletal remains where then found December 11th in a wooded area near the family’s home. The investigation with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department began investigating the disappearance of Caylee Anthony , he found discrepancies in Casey’s signed statement.
Psychoanalytical Perspective: Andrea Yates was academically successful in her early life. She was bulimic and depressed in her teenage years and had even talked to a friend about committing suicide. Before meeting Rusty, Andrea was just overcoming a broken relationship which would have left her vulnerable at the time. She moved in with Rusty and they got married a short time afterward. They both planned to have as many possible kids nature would allow.
At 14 years old she was pregnant, she had claim it to be her older brother’s at the time. Unlike her mother, she set the baby up for adoption and just and went hitchhiking to become a prostitute for truck drivers. Eventually she fell in love with a woman by the name of Tyria Moore. The couple continued a relationship for about four years. She supported the both of them with the money she earned from prostituting, which wasn’t much.
She had to be sedated and placed on a ventilator. "Her face changed within four days," Corona told ABC News. "I would wipe her face and all the skin was just falling off." Doctors diagnosed Castanada with Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a rare but serious drug reaction that can occur even when drugs are taken as prescribed
Mary was pronounced dead. Doctors believed at first she had died from a stroke. However, over the course of the next three days, the death toll would rise. Extra- Strength Tylenol capsules tainted with cyanide would be responsible for Mary Kellerman and six more deaths.
This statement, which was said about George and slim after Lennie’s death shows how little Lennie’s life was worth to the other people in the book. Lennie’s death is only one of two mercy killings that are going to be talked about. Kay Gilderdale gave her suffering daughter Lynn a cocktail that would end her life in December of 2008. Lynn was suffering from ME for 17 years and wanted out. “Her daughter called her for help when her own attempts at suicide failed” (Laville1).
Ms. Bobbitt stated this evoked memories of years of abuse and walked into the bedroom where John was sleeping and cut off almost half of penis. During the trail Ms. Bobbitt’s defense claimed she suffered from clinical depression and she was acquitted. She underwent 45 days of psychiatric evaluation and then was released. 4. Jeffrey Dahmer was serial killer and sex offender in 1991.
Andrea Yates, mother of five boys killed each of her sons one by one by drowning them in the tub. Andrea was suffering from post-partum depression. Andrea was tried in a court of law and found guilty. The guilty verdict was overturned sometime later on appeal and was changed to not guilty by reason of insanity. Instead of prison time she was sent to a high security mental health facility.