Well shit, they don’t notice them baking in the back of cars, why not the oven? It’s a sick fucking world we live in. Harms Way, indeed.
spingears, let me take this opportunity to tell you that you are an idiot of the highest order, and invite you to lick my 'roids.
What the FUCK?
That the child survived is amazing.
20 some years ago, a girl did the same thing to her baby in my hometown, She tried to claim that the 2 old baby had rolled onto the floor furnace. It was later found that she and her husband were on drugs at the time they did it. The Grandmother came a whisked the mother away to a mental institution and that was the end of that. (this baby did not survive and I still have nightmares about it).
Some mental illnesses are indeed physiological malfunctions of the brain. I’d suggest you visit the clue bar before posting on this topic next time.
I don’t want to shit on anybody’s righteous shock, horror or anger, but it just strikes me that if any evidence is needed that this woman is in fact infuckingsane, it is there, right there, in the fact that she put her own child in the fucking oven.
Can post-partum depression extend for 18 months?
This has got to be one of the more disturbing abuse stories I have ever seen.
Morrigoon has the right of it: had it been an accident, she would have immediately removed the screaming child from the oven.
I think the worst part of this is imagining how that poor baby must have fought. What kid would ever lay still as they were beeing pushed into a red hot oven? She had to have been fighting. For the rest of her life, this child will have to deal with mom’s jealousy.
Hey spingears, are you a Scientologist?
(Scientologists are BIG haters of psychiatrists and whatnot.)
As luck would have it, I was just at a training on this today (N.B.: in the middle of a day working with voluntarily hospitalized people with big old scary debilitating MENTAL ILLNESSES not invented by psychiatrists, thanks so much).
The presenter, a doctor and researcher from Stanford, told us that although the DSM gives an earlier cut-off point for post-partum depression, her work suggests that it actually often has a later onset (and thus later resolution). Further, she described several studies that seem to suggest that untreated or only partially-treated post-partum depression (or psychosis) leaves the mother vulnerable to a higher rate of earlier onset, more severe post-partum depression in subsequent pregnancies.
Sorry I can’t give good cites. One was this month’s or next month’s Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. It’s out of my scope of practice, and I was eating a plate of lovely grilled vegetables rather than taking notes.
Opalcat, you are my hero.
Oh, and spingears? You’re a fucking tool.