You are right but doing something like that is very hard to do in the community. Hopefully the mental health providers watched her carefully and if she had any sort of statements implying suicidal/homicidal thoughts they would have her in a facility with 24/7 monitoring.

We obviously don’t know the details or circumstances, so this is all speculation—but you would be surprised at how quickly things just become a part of your life. Your family member is, for example, suicidal. You spend months and months on edge, vigilant. Vigilance becomes routine. Nothing happens, day in and day out. You let down your guard for a brief moment and it all goes to shit.

We don’t need to sit here in judgement. We don’t know what his life, what their lives, were like.

And I don’t necessarily mean that DCF needed to get involved but maybe have family members take the kids until it was safe?

For those that haven't followed this, he made rap songs about murders he committed.

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But you should. And frankly, this is part of the problem with the version of “destigmatization” that’s currently popular where everyone pretends that mental illness couldn’t possibly make people do things that they would never do if they were well.

I understand. But when children are at risk of being killed and there is not a dedicated 24/7 shift worker keeping eyes on the psychotic person, how did anyone think it was ok for the kids to stay there? The father was working from home, taking care of the kids and managing a psychotic person by himself? That is unmanageable for one person

This story horrifies me and makes me wonder “could that have been me”? That’s obviously an extreme - but I feel like it could happen to anyone under the right circumstances. I have sympathy for the Mom (because I can’t imagine any Mom that would do this in a “sane” state of mind) but also feel extreme sadness for the kids and Father. PPP can come on suddenly and with almost no obvious warning signs. Take a look at Carol Coronado’s case. As a new Mom this story sparked a new and irrational fear in me.

Your last two sentences don’t make sense. If she was suffering from postpartum psychosis then it was likely the psychosis that made her kill her own children and try to take her own life. These are not separate facts, they are one and the same. Postpartum psychosis hijacks your brain.

If she was that mentally ill and needed full time supervision, she should have been in an inpatient facility. If she was in an outpatient program she wasn’t deemed a serious threat to herself or others by mental health professionals that she met with every day. The system sucks and she might have not been very forthcoming with her symptoms. I don’t think it’s his fault. If professionals say she should not be left alone at home because she is unsafe, then they should have placed her into proper treatment which would have been an inpatient facility.

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Personal. So no expensing anything. I use points to go back and forth because I have a jetblue card that I use everything for and pay immediately.

>BTW, a bot here is likely to send me an email complaining that our beloved MBTA doesn't have "Lines", it has "Branches"… it always sends me that… of course the article itself, and everybody I know, calls them "Lines". Oh well.

The MBTA has lines, the green line has branches. It's not that confusing. Nothing you said required the use of branch. If you talk about the green line as a whole, you say line. If you are talking about a specific branch of the green line (i.e. the B branch), you say branch.

It is from several of the Boston news channels and Boston newspaper twitter feeds. Sorry, I’m old and don’t know how to link

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Can you share the news source for this?

Post?

Almost 4000 people died from SARS-CoV-2 last week alone.

We're very much NOT "post covid"

I do agree there should be more attention to mentally ill individuals who commit murders, pregnant or not. BUT it does take a lot to remove a kid from the household whether they are from Dorchester or anywhere else.

Go to the North End, Beacon Hill, Faneuil Hall. You feel like you are on a movie set…..

Thank you! This is so helpful! Yes, I wish we were able to do it ourselves at this point but we need to hire it out. A handyman is a good idea.

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Spend the day in Boston. It's a 5-hour round trip (most of which is on an interstate highway) just to get to the base of the Mount Washington auto road. It's fun, but I don't know what season you're coming in, and if you haven't seen Boston before, definitely spend the day in Boston.

Except Watertown isn’t Boston, it’s the next town over. And Logan is across yet another river almost in Winthrop. That’s like saying getting from New York to New York takes 2 hours but you’re going from Staten Island to Manhattan

So I’m actually training to be an AMC volunteer leader, and I mostly lead beginner/easy hikes and walks! There are a few of us who do that. There’s a lot of focus on making sure everyone feels included. (I’m also not in crazy shape either, haha. I just like getting outside.)

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