The theme continues…
There are two types of people, in my completely personal and limited thinking, those that see everything in right or wrong and those that see nuance in life.
For the first type, Lyndsay Clancy is a murdering villain, and needs to suffer a horrible death, like yesterday. There is little doubt, outside of the conspiracy world of Patrick Clancy somehow committing the murders, that Lyndsay Clancy murdered her children. For the first type, there is no excuse for murder, hang the witch.
Even Lyndsay Clancy’s mental illness can not be viewed as contributing to this tragic outcome. She was able to speak to her husband on the phone while placing exercise bands around her children’s necks, so obviously she had presence of mind, right? She attempted suicide, so she appreciated the gravity of her acts, burn the witch at the stake.
Women who empathize with her mental illness, and spoke out on social media about their struggles with postpartum depression or psychosis, are also villainous and need the authorities to take away their children, to this group. To them, Lyndsay Clancy’s supporters are clearly advocating murder of children and they too, should be placed in a body of water to see if they drown, the witches!
It’s very dichotomous thinking. Life can be broken down into the goodies or the baddies. Baddies should all put away in baddies jail and then the goodies will be okay.
The second type of person sees this case differently. Maybe they came into the trial, horrified by the facts and had the same “hang the witch” thoughts, but the failures by the mental health system, the medication given so generously, the realization that before the killings, Lyndsay Clancy was the kind of woman that most other women admire. Maybe that is what engaged the other group. They say undertones and nuances that challenged their thinking.
For this second group, a lot of them have actual real-life experience with childbirth and postpartum. A lot of them have adult daughters and daughter in law that have given birth or will give birth, and the horror that Lyndsay Clancy went through upended their thinking. If this could happen to a labor and delivery nurse, with all of the financial advantages that her husband’s income provided, how could anyone navigate it?
Yes, you DT’s (dichotomous thinkers, not delirium tremens, although I am starting to wonder if that may play a part) people can be horrified by the senseless murder–I am horrified by any murder, frankly–and also see the fault of the mental health system, the pharmacologic complex, and her personal providers in her case. A woman becomes altered, seeks help, the help makes things worse, and the outcome is awful. We can all agree on that, I hope.
For the DT’s (remember, this is dichotomous thinkers not DTF for the nasty out there, but maybe they are in this group. I don’t know) there is no issue with the above “A woman becomes altered…” because she killed her children, full stop. For them, she didn’t do enough. She didn’t admit she was having homicidal thoughts, y’all. She had a chance to just tell her providers that she was having homicidal thoughts and just like that, it would have been different. She clearly didn’t try hard enough to kill herself!
Have you ever had those questions asked while suffering from severe mental anguish, illness or suffering? Anyone that has knows that her answers are not that odd. Admit that you have thought about killing someone? Who am I, an animal? Nope. Not me.
Do you know who the largest group of dichotomous thinkers are? Children between the age of 7 and 9. Before they learn that sometimes we lie when we tell a person they look nice or don’t say anything about a person smelling. That only bad people do bad things.
But, most of us grow out of that.
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