Mental Health Case Study Mary Bennett

I believe in the case of Mary Bennett she should be getting help in a mental health facility. I do not believe she meant to kill her baby. I believe she suffered from some kind of mental illness. She had a troubled youth and was struggling as a young adult before she had the baby. After she had the baby she struggled to hold on to what she knew was right and what she knew was wrong. And in one of her letters to her boyfriend, she was even speaking of herself in third person. She began to retreat in her early teens, run away, and skip school. She was sent to a group facility for skipping school. Nowhere in her teen years does it say they got her help for the retreating and staying in the basement. No one seems to question then if she might have some kind of depression. I have read in mental health pamphlets giving to me by drug rehab counsels that retreating, hiding away, running away, skipping school, and drinking or drugs can be signs of depression. She had signs of depression, troubled youth and struggled as a young adult, and walked away from her baby, resulting in her death. She now she has a baby as young adult, she is alone to care for this baby. The parents have helped her get her own place so she can care for the baby

The times she did not talk rationally are the ones that should be payed attention to. She writes a letter talking in third person about needing to work and be alone with her boyfriend. She is also again stating she is not ready to be a mom. She wants to be herself again and to have a family when she is ready. In another letter she talks about be isolated and not wanting to be alone. She also talks about her insecurities and anxieties. She is very back and forth about being ok and not being ok. When she is not ok, she talks a lot about being not wanting to be alone and not wanting to be a