Reply #272: She did not meet TEXAS' Standard

[LostinVA]

Almost any other state or country would have treated her like Hinckley and institutionalized.

Btw, I am not a nurse, but my mother has been a psychiatric and pediatric nurse for 40 years, and she told me psychotics often DO understand what they have done, but that their altered reality makes that understanding moot. She sees Andrea Yates as both mentally ill and a victim who should be treated like Hinckley.

I know my mother, who is the epitome of a REAL Christian,a nd who has compassion for the people she treats. She is also a well-respected, top notch nurse.

Geez, use some empathy: imagine you had a psychotic episode and did this to your kids, then, with medicine-induce lucidity, you KNOW what you did. Then, imagine living with that. Yates is in the prison of her own mind.

Yates has also expressed sincere remorse, and a wide range of mental professionals who HAVE EXAMINED, unlike any of us on this board, have declared her one of the most mentally ill people that have ever examined. This is not only doctors hired by the defense.

Today, I feel like I've been reading FR.

If you really have no understanding and compassion for those you treat, perhaps it's best if you change your place of employment. That's why I decided to give up teaching... I started to hate kids.