Clocking in for another day at the rolling a rock up a hill factory.

Every damn day I am asking why people can't just do their fucking jobs. I absolutely fuck around at work but I also get shit done. Do the kids not know how to balance this?

I got a rock

I'm not going to go on record as saying the husband did it, as he appears to be quite litigious, but there are holes in the official story (his story) you could drive a truck through.

At the very least he seems like an abusive asshole and the type of guy who "babysits" his own kids

She undoubtedly has but the way she was saying that if you can slap on a smile and get shit done you aren't mentally ill was shockingly 1970s

Oof watching the prosecutors summation or whatever and she has never met anyone with mental illness before.

Yup

Aw shucks

Eta it doesnt

I think it's fairly clear that she was struggling with her mental health and there are some red flags i saw that I would hope I would have picked up on if I was treating her. It seems like she was resistant to care and to a bipolar diagnosis, but I don't see where anyone asked her why. When people push back on meds I try to ask what the concerns are and allay them as best I can while coming up with a plan that will be helpful.

The biggest red flag was the husband saying "my wife is not bipolar". There's a couple things I hope i would have done with that. The first, is something I do when people push back on a diagnosis which is whip out the dsm and compare their symptoms to the criteria. And explore why they don't think it's accurate.

The second is that I hope I would have taken time at an appointment with just her to gauge what kind of support the husband is. And whether he is impeding her care or influencing what she says or reports. I get the feeling that he may have been minimizing her symptoms and making her feel a way about seeking help or taking meds.

From what I can see from what I saw of the care she received looked like it was not negligent. In psych you are bound by what they tell you. You can't generally tell if someone is psychotic by looking at them and my experience is that people downplay those symptoms even when asked directly.

Also you can look totally normal and functioning while having very bad delusions and hallucinations. You would be surprised how many people are walking around that you would never suspect. Also if her psychosis was related to lack of sleep, it will come and go.

And the difference between intrusive thoughts and auditory hallucinations is academic.

Also I totally understood what the doctor meant in that note where she used a comma instead of a conjunction.

It's bullshit I can't use a bereavement day today.