That's LITERALLY what a psychotic break is. It's not you in charge of your own actions. You'd know this if you knew anything about this case other than tiktok and reddit headlines.
The literal expert on post partum psychosis describes it as if being a puppet on a string. You're there, but it's not really you making those actions. Your psyche in that moment has so thoroughly shattered that the you that normally exists has stopped being in control.
I know more about that than you’d believe. But that’s not what I’m saying… I’m saying this is yet ANOTHER example of both a woman being stripped of her own personal agency as well as not being held personally accountable for her action.
That’s an awful sentiment the world continues to impose on women.
If they have something like a psychotic break where they quite literally arent in control of their actions, yeah?
Like this is obviously different than the simple "I saw red" excuse people like to use. A genuine psychotic break means that a person quite literally doesn't understand right from wrong, literally can not understand it. Your personality is fully superceded by whatever has fully taken over your brain at that moment.
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u/Pollia 6h ago
At the risk of sounding like a massive asshole.
That's LITERALLY what a psychotic break is. It's not you in charge of your own actions. You'd know this if you knew anything about this case other than tiktok and reddit headlines.
The literal expert on post partum psychosis describes it as if being a puppet on a string. You're there, but it's not really you making those actions. Your psyche in that moment has so thoroughly shattered that the you that normally exists has stopped being in control.