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He noticed she started to withdraw and became catatonic.

She would stare blankly ahead and not say anything at all for very long periods of time.

And on June 18th, 1999, Andrea suffered from severe depression and tried to commit suicide by taking an overdose of antidepressants.

Others reported that she was taking an overdose of sleeping medication, so it's not clear what, but she was then admitted to the psychiatric unit of Methodist Hospital.

Six days after her release, she began seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Eileen Starbranch.

The next month, on July 20th, 1999, Rusty found Andrea in the bathroom holding a knife to her own neck.

He told her to give him the knife, but she refused, and he had to pry it out of her hands.

Andrea was then admitted to Spring Shadows Glen Hospital against her wishes the following day, and there she told a psychologist, Dr. James Thompson, that she experienced visions and had heard voices since the birth of her first child, Noah, five years previous.

Her psychiatrist, Dr. Starbranch, claimed that Andrea was among the five sickest patients she had ever seen.

Andrea was diagnosed with postpartum depression, and women who have postpartum depression can develop postpartum psychosis.

So to break it down, according to the Cleveland Clinic, postpartum psychosis, or PPP, is a reversible but severe mental health condition that affects people after they give birth.

This condition is very rare, but it's also extremely dangerous.

People with postpartum psychosis have a much higher risk of harming themselves, dying by suicide or harming their children.

Because of this, PPP is a mental health emergency.

The condition is rare but can affect anyone who has recently given birth, and symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, mood changes, depersonalization, disorganized thinking or behavior, insomnia, irritability or agitation, and thoughts of self-harm or harming others, especially their newborns.

So keep this in mind going forward.

And this is explicitly being told to both Rusty and Andrea.

So while being treated, Andrea expressed that she had been stressed trying to raise so many young children and that she didn't want to fail.

She also confessed to having, quote, recurrent obsessive thoughts and that most of them were over her children and how they would turn out.

Keep this in mind, especially going forward once we get into the more occult aspects of this case.