OneLostGrl
I'm going against the grain- I'm going sane
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Thank you for responding-- you make perfect sense, despite the fatigue
I think I was unclear bc I'm tired too-- I blame daylight savings grrr.
I DO NOT think, Casey is bipolar or that a comprehensive read of her behavior would indicate bipolar disorder. I think that the memo seemed to hint at something more than PPD or PPP-- I thought it hinted at bipolar symptoms. I think the defense could try to bring all this out in sentencing as a mitigation scenario, saying that she was suffering from undiagnosed bipolar disorder and episodes could have been triggered by pregnancy. --Because I thought it was odd they seemed to tack on "classic" biopolar symptoms.
I VERY MUCH believe and know that people with bipolar disorder and other axis I conditions have a soul!! I think Casey's a psychopath, actually. I don't think she has a "soul" and I found the defense memo's allusions to psychiatric conditions irksome and disturbing. I was just wondering how far they would go with it. But I do agree with you, they are not going to try to pull a NGRI defense at trial.
So, to end the ramble, I wasn't in any way trying to insinuate that I think you and Casey are similar or behaved similarly. There's a big difference, obviously-- you know this. but I just wanted to be clear!!
Ohh, I know you werent trying to compare me and Casey. You and I have already touched briefly on what each other thinks Casey's "diagnosis" is and we both agreed we saw personality disorders but no Bipolar symptoms.
Your question was legit, I understood what you were getting at! I answered the way I did to debunk the crazy idea if Bipolar is indeed what her lawyers are planning on pointing at. It does seem they are listing symptoms of Bipolar in the little memo.