What's the deal with that?
2006-06-28 00:21:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Seriously.
2006-06-28 00:22:12 · update #1
umm... more people do normal things when they go "crazy." if not we would be up to our necks in bodies considering that 2 out of three people will suffer some sort of mental breakdown in their lives. read your numbers man!
2006-06-28 00:24:49 · answer #1 · answered by Vee 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i think when people are really pissed off or just angry at someone there first impulse is to hurt someone else or themselves. Especially violent people and to them hurting or causing someone pain seems easier…and makes them feel somewhat better in the moment I think. …mowing the lawn or climbing trees are more fun activities and wouldn’t make theses people feel any better …I mean there angry that’s why they end up killing people and until they don’t do something about it there gonna stay angry…so killing other people is there way out…..hmm but I agree when there having theses crazy moments they should just think for a second and not go with there first impulse and maybe yeah mow the lawn or log on to yahoo answers and answer some warm and fluffy Qz
2006-06-28 09:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people do do the things you suggest -- or at least mundane activities (the obsessive/compulsives). As someone else says, it depends on what type of neurosis you have.
In this case, Andrea's mental illness revolved around her children/family, because that was the most important thing in her life and because there were biochemical changes that occurred in her due to pregnancy.
As far as Andrea's specific case goes:
Andrea Yates was suffering from severe depression (she had been hospitalized and was suicidal) and possibly a form of schizophrenia. think postpartum depression was in there too.
Post-partum depression happens when a seemingly average woman gives birth, and the hormone levels in her body change drastically enough to affect her personality so that she becomes withdrawn, uninterested in taking care of the baby, potentially suicidal, and so forth. If people do not realize what is happening early on, the baby could starve from inattention. It happened to my cousin-in-law, and she is normally a cheerful happy person and good mother. (We should not be attaching stigma to mental illnesses -- only to clear and conscious moral decisions.)
According to her friends, Andrea was a wonderful mother, a model for most (and I can believe it). Unfortunately, she was also part of a fundamentalist cult along with her husband for a long time, and she is the sort of person to base her behavior and model her perceptions based on an authority figure -- so she was very susceptible to the cult leader's influence as well as her husband's.
(Ingrained into her was the idea that her children would go to hell because she was a bad mother, and the only way she could save them was to kill them before the age of accountability was reached. She fought off these feelings for a LONG time -- years -- and finally lost it.)
She was under a great deal of stress as well. Her father had recently died. And doctors specifically told the couple NOT to have another baby because of the postpartum depression coupled with her mental chemistry -- it would simply be dangerous for her and her family, based on what they knew of her case history.
(Her husband, gifted in technical skills like engineering but apparently having NO idea of how someone worked emotionally, shrugged it off nor was able to perceive realistically what Andrea was dealing with.)
To top it off, a few weeks before the murders, her new doctor took her OFF her medication, deciding she didn't need it.
See what I mean? If one reviews the case history, it's clear she was suffering a host of mental illnesses and psychological problems -- and everyone (the system, her husband, her doctors) failed her.
I think the crime itself was heinous, but I think it's also clear she was certifiably ill beyond question... and it was unfortunate that the children were her life, so they became the focal point of her obsessions.
2006-06-28 01:38:34 · answer #3 · answered by Jennywocky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people do mow the lawn when they go crazy, it just doesn't make the news.
2006-06-28 00:26:02 · answer #4 · answered by Huey from Ohio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some people DO mow lawns or climb trees when they go crazy!!! ... you just don't hear much about them in the news!!!
But... some people just don't like other people.. so when they go crazy... they take it out on the people they don't like.. or even the people they love... they're crazy.. so... don't expect them to act in any rational sort of way.
2006-06-28 00:31:59 · answer #5 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Aunt cleaned the house constantly {almost drove us insane with her} and some have other obsessions but it depends on what type of psychosis they are suffering from and if they are also delusional. Only the truly outlandish make headlines.
2006-06-28 00:29:11 · answer #6 · answered by NotSoTweetOne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have 2 acres of lawn that i have to constantly mow , are you calling me crazy??!!
2006-06-28 00:26:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the voices in their head tell them to.
In Adria Gates case, she killed her children because a voice in her head told her to so they could go to heaven.
2006-06-28 02:33:24 · answer #8 · answered by Robert C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They think it is the doing of some one so they have to elinimate that person to make things right.
2006-06-28 01:11:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are crazy, the main reason is they dont have a concious. They dont give a sh** about themselves or you.
2006-06-28 00:31:41 · answer #10 · answered by SEERAY 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋