Psychological Disorders-Andrea Yates

Andrea Yates was born in Houston, Texas where she had lived all her life graduating from high school and college. Later on she met Rusty Yates and 8 years after their marriage they had 5 kids, 4 boys and 1 girl. Yates then attempted her first suicide and was atteneded to a medical hospital where she was proscribed with an anitdepressant and was then released. Once returning home she stopped taking the drugs and then began hallucinating and asking Rusty to kill her. Andrea began to downfall from there. As her conditioned got worse she was diagnosed with Postpartum Psychosis. She was proscribed with Haldol and was sent to a medical institution. She then was released and her condition was getting better. Once she comepletely stopped taking the drugs, 2 days later she had drown her 5 kids, one by one, in a bath tub. Immediately following the incident, she was in court pleading for not guilty due to reason of insanity. The court then sentenced her to life in prison, and she was then moved to a mental instituiton in Texas the following days after her trial.