Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness with variable expression and uncertain etiology. It is a mental disorder characterized by severe breakdowns in thought patterns, emotions, and perceptions. Only 1% of the population is diagnosed with this illness and it’s a condition difficult to treat and understand most of the type. Anyone would see a schizophrenic person and immediately perceive them as weird and not be able to carry out a normal conversation with them. A person will be at higher risk for schizophrenia if it’s in a blood relative or identical twin (usually 48%). This illness causes depression, negative symptoms, and extrapyramidal signs that tend to begin in young adulthood. This is a psychotic term which means that the person cannot distinguish between what is real and what is fantasy. This can lead them to commit severe and more intense criminal acts of violence. They will
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This woman from Houston, Texas drowned her 5 children on June 20, 2001 in her home bathtub. Her reason for doing so was because she had constant voices in her head from the devil telling her to do so because she was a “bad” mother and this was the best thing to do for the children. She knew how to carry out the plan and did it in a specific period where she knew no one would be home with her and the children. After she drowned them, she calmly called the police and told them the tragedy she had committed. In 1999 she was treated with postpartum depression and psychosis. Her husband Rusty Yates claimed that this was not really her wanting to commit the crime, but that it was all due to her mental illness that was getting worse day by day. She pleaded innocence by reason of insanity, but it was rejected by the jury and they found her guilty sentencing her to life in prison. Years later she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was transferred to a hospital to receive treatment
This woman from Houston, Texas drowned her 5 children on June 20, 2001 in her home bathtub. Her reason for doing so was because she had constant voices in her head from the devil telling her to do so because she was a “bad” mother and this was the best thing to do for the children. She knew how to carry out the plan and did it in a specific period where she knew no one would be home with her and the children. After she drowned them, she calmly called the police and told them the tragedy she had committed. In 1999 she was treated with postpartum depression and psychosis. Her husband Rusty Yates claimed that this was not really her wanting to commit the crime, but that it was all due to her mental illness that was getting worse day by day. She pleaded innocence by reason of insanity, but it was rejected by the jury and they found her guilty sentencing her to life in prison. Years later she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was transferred to a hospital to receive treatment