#she's got textbook postpartum psychosis

[thruthelookingmax]

i think there's something to be said about the differences between fandom interpretation of lottie's schizophrenia and shauna's psychosis.

lottie's schizophrenia is generally accepted because it was established early on and she's timid about it, whereas shauna's (postpartum) psychosis is obvious and sudden. you are not confronted with lottie's mental illness in the same way you are shauna's psychosis. lottie is used as this guide, this god, for the girls and thus her symptoms are just the wilderness. and her symptoms manage to protect them, to warn them. so it's palatable.

shauna goes into postpartum psychosis and it isn't palatable, because she's angry and brash and, well, psychotic. it doesn't make lottie any less psychotic. it just makes hers easier to ignore.

idk just something i'm rotating in my brain this season.