Andrea Yates was seeing a fool of a psychiatrist, who, on her last visit to him, told her she needed to work more to "Think good thoughts." That was his prescription to her.

It has been pointed out recently (the Glen Mitchell Show on KERA, Dallas, TX) that some of these anti-psychotic medications actually work in such a way that while they reduce the voices in the short term, in the long term they prolong or provoke the psychosis. In countries other than the US they are having better results when there is a mix of treatments (not just drugs) and the patient is weaned from the drugs. But therapy is part of the cure.

MMario--what you're seeing here is in some ways an abheration from a "typical" pattern--often mothers (and sometimes fathers) who are this depressed are involved in murder/suicide. Yates has been suicidal, and could just as easily have killed herself after killing the children. People ask why the mother doesn't just let someone else care for her children rather than kill them--but mothers who are this depressed simply can't make that distinction, that their children will be safe with someone else. I think Yates couldn't see that her children would be better with someone else (someone not depressed, not suicidal).

SRS