Why did Andrea Yates kill her five children?
Andrea was suffering with postpartum psychosis. She was out of touch with reality and should have been hospitalized. She may have heard voices telling her to kill the children. Her psychosis could have been prevented if she had been given injections of bioidentical progesterone immediately after giving birth. Unfortunately, the American medical and psychiatric communities do not view this disorder as being hormonal. They view it as a psychiatric disorder possibly requiring electroshock therapy and antidepressants.
