Burke
Well-Known Member
I was searching around on this case and find an article that said that following the murder (his death has been classified as a homicide now) the mother was hospitalized for 4 days. That seems like a short hospital stay for the level of mental illness that her family is saying that she has.
I'm not saying that she can't be mentally ill, rather I'm just shocked at that brief of a stay. In other cases where a child has died at the hands of their mentally ill mother she has spent weeks, even months in the hospital. Four days just seems so short.
I guess they could have simply just got her mentally stabilized and called it good and sent her on her way, I don't know. Like I said I was just surprised she was only in the hospital for 4 days, that's all.
I'm guessing they shortened her stay due to her apparent sanity and to allow her to attend her child's funeral.
Also, is "hospitalized" the usual term whether or not it's a mental health issue? Or does the word "institutionalized" show up in mental health cases? It's possible she went to a medical hospital, to be treated for primarily medical / physical purposes, and released.
If she did indeed experience a psychotic episode, she needs meds and therapy ASAP, and maybe a trip to the local psych ward until she's functional again and the risk of recurrence is low.
Psychotic depression can involve these sort of detachment from reality episodes as part of the psychosis, and bipolar disorder is a far too common diagnosis when psychotic depression is the root cause (according to hearsay from psychiatrists and Internet BS - and my own opinion re: bipolar disorder, and my own experience re: psychotic depression).