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>> you know, the decision to have more children in 2001 was based on information we got from the doctor as we'd successfully treated it in '99. if it happened again, we knew how to treat it. thinking ahead, we were thinking if it happens at all, it's going to be a relatively short spell. she'll be down, at worst, for a while. >> for the yates, adding to their family outweighed the risks. to ensure a healthy pregnancy, andrea yates went off all her medication. >> if you're on medication and you come on and off of it, a lot we think that it does something to your brain, and then if you get sick,...

The jurisdiction of the state health services. she currently residence at kerrville state hospital there is no timetable for her release. >> i don't think that any judge will ever sign a paper that says andrea yates can be completely free from supervision. >> i don't think andrea will ever be free. she lives with the memory of her children. she misses them terribly. >> this didn't happen to andrea yates because she's an evil criminal, bad person that needs to be killed. this happened to andrea yates because she has a biologic medical illness called psychosis. we don't understand it very well. ...

Insanity and it's a very horrendous crime, you will probably never leave a texas prison. >> it was a terrible personal tragedy that became a white hot media spectacle. >> she drowned her kids because she didn't want them to go to hell. >> captivating and horrifying viewers from coast to coast. >> did he know that his wife would be a danger to those five children? >> she did not show remorse. she did not show regret. she believed that she had arranged for her children to go to heaven. >> the murder case that shocked the nation and cast a harsh, new light on the very nature of motherhood. >> i v...

Factors came together to make that not only a national case but an international case. >> given the circumstances, it was inevitable. almost overnight andrea yates became a household name and a condition called postpartum psychosis a hotly contested topic. >> it is not the same as the baby blues, which are very common. postpartum psychosis is about 1 case in 1,000 births. often a woman is very psychotic, hallucinations, delusions, confused, usually so severe, it requires hospitalization. >> on june 20th, 2001, andrea yates called police to her home, showed them the bodies of her drowned childr...

You know, we lost our family, and andrea was charged with capital murder, and it was a big case because she didn't get adequate mental health care treatment. so from that facet of my life, you know, i'm doing my best to try to redirect and say move in that direction to where i can help mentally ill people. >> hello. >> hi. >> how are you today? how many is that? >> four. >> four. >> six, one, two, three, four. >> i think if we can take the andrea yates, the generic andrea yates, the whole story of her kids, and we can move forward in the area of mental health care, i think we will have accompl...