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Claire
02-25-2008, 10:44 PM
Daughter needs some modern-day examples and I am drawing a blank. :( Can anyone help me out?
Jean in Newcastle
02-25-2008, 11:55 PM
Hmmm. Does Brittney Spears have guilt?

Most people now a days don't seem to acknowledge their feelings of guilt.

I've known of some mothers who have killed their kids because of guilt - wasn't that Amanda Yates who did that? Am I getting the name right? The one who drowned her kids in the bathtub?
Pam "SFSOM" in TN
02-25-2008, 11:57 PM
Hmmm. Does Brittney Spears have guilt?

Most people now a days don't seem to acknowledge their feelings of guilt.

I've known of some mothers who have killed their kids because of guilt - wasn't that Amanda Yates who did that? Am I getting the name right? The one who drowned her kids in the bathtub?

She was psychotic, though. I'm not sure it's the same thing.
percytruffle
02-26-2008, 12:02 AM
How about this article:

Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/22/nartist122.xml)
Jean in Newcastle
02-26-2008, 12:22 AM
She was psychotic, though. I'm not sure it's the same thing.

She was psychotic but I remember her "reason" being guilt that she wasn't a good enough mother. But then you get into the chicken and egg thing - did the post-partum psychosis cause the feelings of guilt? Or did excess feelings of guilt lead to psychosis?
Claire
02-26-2008, 12:25 AM
How about this article:

Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/22/nartist122.xml)

Thanks! I'm going to use that one! Also found an article on holocaust survivor guilt and another one on PTSD/suicides in the military. I think that will do it.......
Pam "SFSOM" in TN
02-26-2008, 12:26 AM
She was psychotic but I remember her "reason" being guilt that she wasn't a good enough mother. But then you get into the chicken and egg thing - did the post-partum psychosis cause the feelings of guilt? Or did excess feelings of guilt lead to psychosis?

Weren't her voices telling her she wasn't good enough, though? That's what I think that I read. Somewhere.

Sheesh. You're probably right. I'm probably misremembering. :confused: