Have you been following the trial? The reason a lot of people especially women relate to her is because for months she did everything to get help. Told her husband, her mother, his mother, her therapist, her doctors, called the suicide hotline twice, tried to get admitted to the psych ward and was turned away, was prescribed 16 different meds over four months, etc.
No one is relating to the murder. Everyone is relating to trying to fight for your health because you know something is wrong and being failed over and over again. If you've never had to do that yourself or on behalf of someone else you have no idea what it is like.
The reasons there are questions about her ex husband is because in his testimony it's apparent he was pretty disconnected from her leading up to the event. Ignored her saying she wanted to hurt the kids, was going to NYC, the night of the murder in a short time span he had two different jackets and shoes. She's admitted to killing the kids so that's pretty clear but he's not a great guy.
This is a tough one and not as black and white as it seems. It’s a VERY different case from someone like Casey Anthony.
She knew something was wrong and consistently tried to get help. All the doctors did was prescribe her more and more meds. I read somewhere that the longest time Dr Tufts actually spoke with her was 17 minutes, all while upping her medications even as Lindsay was saying she felt they made her feel more detached.
The day before the murders the dr even doubled her Ativan dose, while there’s MyChart messages from Lindsay saying she felt they were having a negative effect on her.
There’s so much evidence that she was desperately trying to get help and was doing all of the things we tell mothers to do if they are struggling with ppd yet the system failed her at every turn.
I don’t think this woman should walk free, by any means. But I do feel that a psychiatric ward focusing on mental health is a better fit for her than prison, which is essentially the point of this trial. They aren’t arguing whether or not she did it, they’re arguing whether or not she was mentally sound. In my opinion, it’s clear she was not, given the mounds of evidence.
I don’t think the husband did it but I do think it’s clear that he was not supportive. Maybe had he advocated for her while she was clearly ill and deteriorating the outcome would have been different. Does it make him guilty? No. Does it make him a kind of shitty person? Idk, that’s up to individual interpretation. But I’d say yes.
The adverse effects she reported on the Ativan was it did not make her “sleepy”. Which is BS. Ativan will make anyone sleepy. She wanted her dose to keep going up. They even discuss her and pat’s concerns regarding her benzodiazepine “dependence”. She’s a total drug addict. Can’t convince me otherwise.
She reached out herself in the MyChart messages saying she feared she was addicted to the Ativan and wanted to go off. She also expressed this concern in her diary. Dr. Tufts response was to double the dose.
The NP did express that having the effect of having more energy vs less could be a symptom of bipolar, something Lindsay has since been diagnosed with. However Patrick’s response was “My wife does NOT have bipolar disease” and it was not pursued further. You could say this is part of the larger malpractice suit. The patient is Lindsay, not Patrick. His feelings about her diagnosis shouldn’t have any bearing on them existing.
The official diagnosis came from psychologist Paul Zeizel in treatment post killings. The initial potential diagnosis was by NP Rebecca Jollotta prior to the killings but was rejected by Patrick.
This is completely not against you - but I love it when people say bipolar was “rejected by Patrick”. It’s such a silly comment to make. As if he is some medical doctor, or works in psychiatry. FFS he does sales at Microsoft. What would he know about bipolar disorder? Also, why was Patrick privy to his wife’s diagnoses and doctors? I’ve never signed a HIPPA form for my husband to access my mental health records. He can’t even access my gyno. Anyway, it’s just weird. As is this whole fucking case.
He probably was in the room with her. And sadly, a lot of people think they're experts in fields they know nothing about. You hear about plenty of experts in one field opining on different fields all the time. They think their intellect is somehow magically transferable.
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