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Originally Posted by redwitch
I truly feel sorry for Casey. She never wanted this little girl. Her mother forced her to bear it and then keep it. Casey is obviously mentally ill. She will probably not survive in prison even if kept in isolation. The odds are pretty good that someone will "take care" of her.
I truly believe that had this girl gotten help much, much earlier, this tragedy would have never occurred. Our mental health system truly stinks. We need to start accepting that mental disorders are diseases and treat them accordingly rather than treating the mentally ill as someone to avoid and be ashamed of. Bedlam was closed a long, long time ago. Mental disorders are treated much like cancer was 30-50 years ago -- you avoid the person because you're afraid you might catch it; you don't get treatment because there's no cure anyway; you don't tell people you have it because you then become an outcast. Our prisons are overwhelmed with "criminals" who have many mental disorders. Casey will just be another in a cast of many. Quite honestly, I think she may have inherited her illness from her mother -- she doesn't look nor act like someone in complete control, either. (And now I'm off my soapbox.)
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Casey Anthony hardly strikes me as mentally ill, Redwitch. There is a big problem with the mental health system in the general public's lack of understanding of various mental diseases. This has not been at all helped by movies like
A Beautiful Mind
and
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and even to a lesser extend
Changeling but Casey Anthony does not seem like someone with delusions of any kind except maybe the one which she can get away with just dumping her daughter's body out on the woods near her grandparents' home. She probably would have been caught up in her lies a long time ago if not for Tropical Storm Fay.
Fay covered up the area in the woods where the dead body was recently discovered near the Anthony's (grandparents') house.
The problem may be how much lawyers are seen by the general public abusing the mental health system to get their clients lesser sentences as well as when lawyers play mind games with labels of "mentally ill" in custody and divorce proceedings as well as probate matters.