Yes, I’ve wondered this since the beginning… why would she have to go off medication to immigrate?!I think maybe this will inspire us to just look deeper into the immigration laws in NZ…sounds like you can’t move there if you have a mental illness. Is it because it would be a “strain” on the system, if meds are covered or hospital stays are covered?
Or do they just prefer their new citizens to be neurotypical and healthy as possible?
Sounds discriminatory to me.
Maybe she was on an antipsychotic or a mood stabilizer, which is generally prescribed for those with a mood disorder like bipolar or schizophrenia. The latter being a more serious illness. Though you can still take those if you just have depression. I take an antipsychotic and a mood stabilizer and I’m just a depressed eeyore! But again you couldn’t pay me to go off my meds. Nothing is worth it IMO
Jmo
It's quite a long wait for Lauren too.It looks like it will be a long time before we have any kind of answers. I forgot to highlight the following line from the link I posted earlier.
The trial date was set for March 2023.
Lauren Dickason: Mother pleads not guilty to murdering her three daughters
^i still think the kids are probably too old for her to be suffering from post partum depression or psychosis
I think if you're on medications for mental health issues, your visa can be denied. I know that can be the case for Australia, so I would think NZ too.
So by going off medications, she wasn't officially lying on the forms and she was downplaying it.
Having said that, the visa would probably have been a skilled migrants visa, which may or may not have had the same questions as other visa categories.
I'm also thinking the lead person on the skilled migrants visa would have been her husband, and that she would have been a spousal visa application?
All just thoughts of course. /Gosh half the world probably has depression/ anxiety. Perhaps if one has been hospitalized a few times for depression..that could be a negative for residency in another country.
We don't know if there was any history of hospitalization. I have my doubts as we know she was working full time as a GP in SA before moving to NZ. How could a person with serious mental health issues manage working and being off medication for how long..??
It seems the same can be applied toWow, 10 years of insanity due to childbirth, but after that you're responsible?
Well said. Probably no longer working affected her too.And why go off the meds. If it was part of the deal that I couldn’t take my “chronic” medication anymore, we wouldn’t move. My partner and I wouldn’t move to a place where I couldn’t take my meds.
That’s the part that I’m grappling with. I think it’s safe to assume that they were some kind of psychiatric drug. It was her and her husbands choice to move to a place where she’d have to quit her medication. I bet they thought they could make that call because they’re doctors.
But the privilege. I can’t not think of that. She had so much help and could afford so much help. Then suddenly she has to be your average, isolated, single mother. Normal.
Maybe she loved her kids but didn’t know how to care for them. If they’re in school or daycare all day, then there’s a nanny..I’m just saying. There’s so many parents who really don’t spend much time with their kids. She could have been one of them.
Remember when covid first hit and everyone was making jokes about how awful it was having to be around their kids all day now that school and daycare is closed? There’s some truth to those jokes.
Being the parent of a 14-18 year old can be pretty insane too. Jus saying.It seems the same can be applied to
10 to 14 years
Crimes Act 1961 No 43 (as at 05 October 2021), Public Act – New Zealand Legislation
Being the parent of a 14-18 year old can be pretty insane too. Jus saying.
I don’t know how difficult it would be to leave a wife who strangled all your children with zip ties but I think I would be flying home with my children’s ashes.That would be difficult leaving your wife and children buried in a different country far away.
Do you have any links to prove that NZ has discriminatory immigration laws? That is a bold accusation, IMO.I think maybe this will inspire us to just look deeper into the immigration laws in NZ…sounds like you can’t move there if you have a mental illness. Is it because it would be a “strain” on the system, if meds are covered or hospital stays are covered?
Or do they just prefer their new citizens to be neurotypical and healthy as possible?
Sounds discriminatory to me.
Maybe she was on an antipsychotic or a mood stabilizer, which is generally prescribed for those with a mood disorder like bipolar or schizophrenia. The latter being a more serious illness. Though you can still take those if you just have depression. I take an antipsychotic and a mood stabilizer and I’m just a depressed eeyore! But again you couldn’t pay me to go off my meds. Nothing is worth it IMO
Jmo