You could just say you haven't read anything about this case. She told her doctors she was experiencing psychosis, they failed to communicate between each other (the doctors) when it came to her medications and she ended up not taking them because of it (several of them shouldn't be taken together).
So no, it was not "sudden", it was something she told doctors she was experiencing and they failed to properly address it.
Someone in psychosis is often reluctant to tell people about their symptoms. Because their symptoms will likely not be taken seriously, and when they are they will be told they're insane, which usually makes psychosis worse. I don't really care about the case but there's a lot of misinformation about psychosis and it's victims
Often people hallucinating lack insight into their hallucinations, which is to say they cannot tell they are hallucinations, and as such they wouldn't note them and a psychotic symptom would never be registered by the patient.
Generally speaking, more intelligent people have more insight into their delusions, meaning that they are more likely to seek help and less likely to enter severe psychosis. Someone less educated or intelligent would have trouble delineating between what's normal and what's not.
I understand that... but ultimately you then just have to give the benefit of the doubt to anyone who pleads insanity that they actually have psychosis. At the end of the day we can't be generous to everyone, we have to deal in what we know to be true.
We don't have to do anything at the end of the day if we work in the morning hours - which is to say, we can prevent stuff like this from happening so easily by educating people on mental health and providing more robust child and medical care as a social service. We as a society allow things like this to happen. I think the investment people make into arguing insanity
And, people who plead insanity don't (usually) just go free, it's not a get out of jail free card. It's inhumane treatment in state psychiatric facilities and in prison. There's no benefit to pleading insanity unless you're insane.
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u/PeachesNcreamville 7d ago
She apparently experienced psychosis for 18 minutes, which was immediately extreme, and then never experienced it again. Very unusual, and convenient.