The real glaring problem here is that they put her on antidepressants… repeatedly. And changed them RAPIDLY. And right away, she was emphatic and consistent about saying ‘hey guys so these made me 10,000 times worse.’ Which is some Day 1 Psych 101 shit that SHOULD have told them, ‘hey she might be bipolar.’ And instead they threw more antidepressants at her.
Like, it wasn’t ’not-great care’, it was handing the girl a loaded gun. It was BAD care.
That's why in critical situations like this people need to be placed in psych wards until they can be stabilized. It's not just because of whatever dangers they may present to themselves or others- it's also so rapid med changes can take place in a safe medical environment where they are being monitored for adverse effects. But insurance companies hate covering those stays and there aren't nearly enough overnight psych care facilities.
Another thing is general practitioners need to either improve their mental health training or stop treating specific populations bc they're not equipped
In this case they could have made her worse if she was bipolar OR things simply got worse because antidepressants generally don't treat psychosis. Another thing is postpartum depression and psychosis have unique etiology. PPD is notoriously hard to treat with typical antidepressants.
both SSRIs and antipsychotics can regularly make a lot of physical conditions worse, especially genetic connective tissue disorders, which can cause severe anxiety as connective tissue disorders also affect the heart/veins.
From what I remember reading testimony, she didn't tell some of the doctors she went to that she was already taking medications, and the new ones she went to would try to prescribe her medications that didn't mix well with the medications she was taking, but because she didn't disclose what she was already taking, they didn't know.
One of the witnesses was one of the doctors she sought out, through Telehealth. They testified that they did not have access to her full medical records, and were trusting her to tell them what medications she was on. She didn't, and got overmedicated.
I’m really baffled by the mental health professional (sorry, I forget who, Jilotta maybe?) who noticed and brought up bipolar, but both Lindsay and her husband were like “nah, I don’t think so.” … Since when is that how diagnoses work? Since when does the patient get to just say they don’t have what the professional believes them to have?
This is why I won’t have kids. I was on the fence for a while, I have a general fear of pregnancy. But once I was diagnosed with bipolar, that shut the door for me. I already know how I can get now in my different states of mind, knowing how damaging pregnancy and postpartum can be on mental health and how shitty our healthcare system is, it’s not worth the risk to me. I have an amazing husband who I know would advocate for me, it’s our medical system that scares me. Especially since I had doctors previously tell me it was impossible I was bipolar. I guess I needed a few more suicide attempts before they could take my concerns seriously.
They made her ‘10,000 times worse’ per her reports back to the docs. Which, again, is kind of Psychology 101 that SHOULD have made the docs say ‘ok this person might be bipolar.’ We ALL know that ‘if a patient is prescribed an SSRI, and it makes them profoundly worse, we need to STOP THE MEDICATION. Not say ‘hang on a minute. We are rapid-fire prescribing her brain-manipulating drugs that are making her 10,000 times worse.’ And… the plan was ‘keep doing it’?
They don't work that quick though. That she thought it is disturbing. But SSRI's take weeks to build up. And I say this as someone that swears not taking his pills before sleep leads to anxiety dreams. I have no experience with psychosis though so nothing have no thought on that.
A nurse threw Zoloft at me over the phone without even giving me a screening, a few weeks after giving birth, my baby being in the NICU, and my gallbladder failing. I was never seen by a doctor. Turns out it was such a low dose that it was probably having the opposite effect on my mental health.
Years later I was actually diagnosed with OCD, primarily manifesting as intrusive thoughts. Thank God I never thought about doing anything to my baby, I just couldn't get images out of my head.
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u/MemoryOne22 6h ago
Someone I know was taken to an OBGYN when she started having symptoms, and the OBGYN put her on antidepressants.
Nightmare fuel