Reasons Without Excuses

This week there's been a story in the Missoulian all about a young woman who broke her 7-week-old baby's leg by yanking on it in frustration.  Heather of 4+ months ago would have been ready to string her up like the rest of the people on Missoulian.com's discussion page.  The calls to "sterilize her" or "put her through what the baby went through" are fierce and loud.  And boy, do I understand that.  Very similar to this story from a couple years ago when a very mentally ill man killed a kitten in his home, only to go on and kill himself a few days later (you wouldn't believe the death threats that man recieved!).


Now, I'm not going to sit here and say that what these people did to innocent creatures is right.  It's not, very obviously these kinds of things hit "normal society" like a sucker-punch to the gut.  Makes us sick to our stomachs, and makes us want the wrath of God Almighty to smite these wicked agents of Satan.  OK...so maybe I'm over-dramatizing here, but from the reactions of a lot of people out there, I don't think I'm too far off.


The reason I'm posting about this is that prior to this event even happening, I had been debating about whether or not I wanted to deal with any serious topics on my site.  I told a friend the other day, "I can't decide if I should blog about my craft projects or about my postpartum depression."  As she responded, "Wow, those are pretty different".  And since I feel like perhaps that young mother may have been experiencing some battles with PPD herself (or some other problem), and I'm so tired of hearing about people not reaching out for help because of the social stigma's attached, I decided I have to speak out about my situation.