BeginnerSleuther
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Are Heche’s behaviors in her car, including the near accidents before the accident, the actions of a rational person?
if it were some other sort of medical crisis - no doctor myself, but IDK - what type of medical crisis makes someone suddenly start careening their car around like a pinball in a machine, and then flee like a panicked bat out of hell?
If you, for example, think you’re having a heart attack, don’t you pull over and stop moving?
were the police chasing her and I just didn’t notice?
Rational or irrational really has nothing to do with mental health. Someone can mentally ill and still be "rational" and likewise, someone doesn't have to have mental illness to be "irrational." So I don't think that says anything in Anne's case except that she wasn't thinking clearly. Other things that make us behave irrationally - bad news that stresses us out, fear, physical pain, conflict and annoyance, alcohol or drugs, etc.
As to the medical crisis, no, that isn't necessarily the case. Most people with a heart attack would clutch their chest or feel sick. But many people have no idea what they're feeling. I even had one patient who didn't come to the ER for two days and in that time, he thought his discomfort was from hunger so he had McDonald's during an active heart attack. Some may speed to the hospital or may think they're having a panic attack or may just start vomiting and not think clearly. Heart attacks sometimes present as abdominal pain only. But putting aside heart attack, a seizure or what we call the post-ictal state (post-seizure) can have a number of different effects on people too, even violence. A stroke, same. People who are in acute physical pain also may present this way.
Basically, there are way too many possibilities for us to narrow it down, some more likely than others. But none of us will ever know the truth of what happened.