Sydney Powell's Insanity Plea | Psychologist Explains

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  • Опубліковано 12 вер 2023
  • 'One of the most severe cases.'
    Psychologist and defense expert, Dr. James Reardon, testified that #SydneyPowell's #schizophrenia was one of the most severe cases he'd seen in more than 40 years. Powell's defense argue #insanity was the reason she killed her mother.
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  • @COURTTV
    @COURTTV  8 місяців тому +4

    MORE HERE: www.courttv.com/tag/sydney-powell/?

    • @halimak625
      @halimak625 8 місяців тому +3

      Hi where can I watch all days of this trial full days?🇬🇧🤷‍♀️

    • @baystonjax
      @baystonjax 8 місяців тому

      I don't think the Trial is completed yet? I could be wrong.@@halimak625

    • @Char_43
      @Char_43 8 місяців тому +4

      They only show parts of testimony .

    • @Jenahh-aye
      @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Char_43I usually avoid cases court tv monopolize for this reason. Law and crime does the whole thing free live stream.

    • @dukecity7688
      @dukecity7688 8 місяців тому +9

      She was in a full blown rage - not psychosis

  • @mirkawessels5978
    @mirkawessels5978 8 місяців тому +198

    She answered the call from the school, tried so sound like her mother, and hung up when she was found out! That seems like a very calculated and clear minded decision!

    • @MySanty2010
      @MySanty2010 8 місяців тому +20

      It is. She knew exactly what she was doing. She murdered her then tried to blame it on someone else. The only thing left was for her to say it was a black man!!!

    • @min_g2608
      @min_g2608 8 місяців тому +8

      This exactly was my conclusion as to why the insanity plea does not work here. I'm surprised your comment was the first one I saw lol. It could be argued, though, that her decision to end mom's life was a heat-of-passion thing that wouldve been very unlike Sydney's otherwise normal day-to-day behavior

    • @JustLikeJulia9
      @JustLikeJulia9 8 місяців тому +6

      As I watch the rebuttal witness right now…Sydney’s jig is up!!(and she knows it!)

    • @judydyer
      @judydyer 8 місяців тому

      She fine. ..... Not crazy; she's a bad bad bad bad girl. ....we've all been pissed off at our mothers sometimes, but, we don't bludgeon them and then stab their throats....OFF the JAIL with her.

    • @BAMBI3937
      @BAMBI3937 8 місяців тому +5

      No Psychosis

  • @Couldawouldashoulda1
    @Couldawouldashoulda1 8 місяців тому +109

    In her so-called psychotic state after murdering her mother, she has the wherewithal to say there was a break in 🙄🙄🙄 that’s not a mental state… that’s planning 🤦‍♀️

    • @AirQuotes848
      @AirQuotes848 8 місяців тому +2

      I’m thinking along those lines as well

    • @wesner326
      @wesner326 8 місяців тому

      Exactly.

    • @Lucinda_Jackson
      @Lucinda_Jackson 8 місяців тому +3

      If you knew the bare minimum about psychosis and schizophrenia, then you'd know those two things aren't mutually exclusive.

    • @Roswell33
      @Roswell33 7 місяців тому +2

      @@Lucinda_Jackson He's claiming she's not deceptive because she didn't know right from wrong

    • @Panzer-Geomancer
      @Panzer-Geomancer 4 місяці тому

      ​@@Lucinda_JacksonPeople are generally stupid. I read these comments about planning and psychosis and i realise that those people have no idea about psychosis, delusional thinking and paranoid delusions.

  • @yoncbwl2738
    @yoncbwl2738 8 місяців тому +57

    If this guy says "Um" one more time, I just may question his sanity, lol

    • @Ronald-pe8di
      @Ronald-pe8di 8 місяців тому +1

      Um

    • @mbowman4436
      @mbowman4436 8 місяців тому +5

      Exactly… very annoying. His um ums make him sound like he doesn’t believe his own crap! He is just making up crap for money!

    • @ReneeFuller-rh7li
      @ReneeFuller-rh7li 8 місяців тому +5

      It’s driving me insane!

    • @anastasiabeaverhousing8192
      @anastasiabeaverhousing8192 8 місяців тому +1

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @ryanciani3324
      @ryanciani3324 12 днів тому

      Seriously shut up. He’s so um annoying and um he sounds um um like he um um doesn’t um know what um um he’s um um talking about

  • @TP94968
    @TP94968 8 місяців тому +39

    Interesting, that she attacked the only person who was very vocal and disappointed about her lies, her Mother! . Not her dad, because her dad was like "its okay, we will get thru this" ....

  • @carlalott806
    @carlalott806 8 місяців тому +43

    If she didn’t know what she did was wrong, why lie? She tried saying someone broke in.

    • @tmcurly
      @tmcurly 8 місяців тому +3

      Then broke the window from the inside. What an idiot. The broken glass was inside the house😳🤣🤣!

    • @belindavandyk6128
      @belindavandyk6128 8 місяців тому

      FABRICATION TAKES INTELLIGENCE AND MENTAL ACQUITY....Mental breakdowns dont uhm PLAN CONSEQUENTIAL ACTIONS

  • @teaburg
    @teaburg 8 місяців тому +299

    Her mom asked 'why do I feel like you are always scamming me?' Reply, 'my grades are fine, thank you!' This is not schizophrenia. It's a liar. And her mom knew it. She just couldn't pull it off for as long as Chandler Halderson or Jennifer Pan could.

    • @jwilder13450
      @jwilder13450 8 місяців тому +13

      Totally agree with all the above^ and maybe I didn’t get there yet, but where did they go over the texts? I must have misssed it but am super curious to hear more

    • @tamimoncrief2264
      @tamimoncrief2264 8 місяців тому +5

      I agree.

    • @Jenahh-aye
      @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +4

      💯

    • @lovepet4565
      @lovepet4565 8 місяців тому +19

      You nailed it with Chandler Halderson
      What is going in with these young people these days???

    • @grandmaof4811
      @grandmaof4811 8 місяців тому +28

      I couldn't agree more! She is spoiled and evil. She beat her mother to death to prevent her from finding out about her suspension. She is manipulative and cunning, mentally ill absolutely not! She knew what she was doing and tried to blame it on an intruder!

  • @ginawentz8574
    @ginawentz8574 8 місяців тому +30

    The amount of times this Doctor said “ummmm” is mind boggling!

    • @laynedias8517
      @laynedias8517 7 місяців тому

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @lr8763
      @lr8763 7 місяців тому +1

      He’s probably paid by the minute. Ummmm’s add up

    • @felixchien1664
      @felixchien1664 Місяць тому

      I uuhhhhh, was uummmm a athlete in uuhhhhhh, uuummmmm something uuhhhh track and uh field. Uuummmm, from what I say uhhh, from 96' uuummm. Uuuuuuuunmmm yeah uuummmm. I uuhhh, began working with ummmm

    • @ryanciani3324
      @ryanciani3324 12 днів тому

      @@felixchien1664 yeah um why um um is um he um here? Um does he um know how um to um speak um properly

  • @TriciaD
    @TriciaD 8 місяців тому +55

    How does anyone who says, “ummmmmm” this much get this far in life?

    • @Sfhakrn
      @Sfhakrn 8 місяців тому

      How is this person a doctor and can barely speak?

    • @tishwitch
      @tishwitch 8 місяців тому

      Because people like Mr Powell will pay big bucks to keep their killer kids out of prison. 😂

    • @JimB16
      @JimB16 8 місяців тому +5

      It is so annoying...

    • @Therealhtrinity
      @Therealhtrinity 8 місяців тому +12

      Most times I have fast-forwarded, I end up back at “Um” 😮😅

    • @gailmorra
      @gailmorra 8 місяців тому +3

      Don't for get his "like" like, like

  • @aprillucas-boyle222
    @aprillucas-boyle222 8 місяців тому +49

    The attorney should reel this guy in. He is so long winded you lose the topic of the sentence.

    • @Schiffon
      @Schiffon 8 місяців тому +1

      Intelligence sometimes comes with long winded risks

    • @lunarphoenixforyourface
      @lunarphoenixforyourface 8 місяців тому +2

      He said he graduated in 76. 47 years ago. I think he's pretty old, past standard retirement age. That's why he's in "private practice".

    • @jakiam83
      @jakiam83 Місяць тому

      ​@@lunarphoenixforyourface being in private practice isn't uncommon for psychologists or therapists.

    • @lunarphoenixforyourface
      @lunarphoenixforyourface Місяць тому

      @@jakiam83 Yes, certainly at his age.

    • @jakiam83
      @jakiam83 Місяць тому

      @@lunarphoenixforyourface 2 of my psychologists were in that age bracket in private practice, so maybe my perspective is biased :)

  • @princekareem
    @princekareem 8 місяців тому +52

    She looks a wreck in court but looks cheerful & confident outside when she thinks cameras aren't around. Makes ya think. Even with her family supporting her, you'd think they'd be kinder to Brenda's memory and the gravity of the crime against her

  • @diannedocherty3816
    @diannedocherty3816 8 місяців тому +93

    She’s a liar..and she may well have been emotionally unstable..but she killed her mother because she got caught..sad

  • @nobodieshome_
    @nobodieshome_ 8 місяців тому +113

    This guy is beyond painful

    • @delib636
      @delib636 8 місяців тому +28

      Dr. Umm 😅

    • @darkmankind
      @darkmankind 8 місяців тому +4

      I got the same impression.

    • @lalathebenificent1335
      @lalathebenificent1335 8 місяців тому +16

      I am feeling sorry for the court reporter.

    • @heathersmith100
      @heathersmith100 8 місяців тому

      I can’t stand to listen to this umm quack! All the umm is so maddening

    • @wolke1955
      @wolke1955 8 місяців тому +4

      ​Dr. Umm and Dr. Spiegel (Depp vs Heard) could be soul mates. 😮😅

  • @ME-rv7vn
    @ME-rv7vn 8 місяців тому +39

    She's not crazy, she's guilty!!!!

    • @cara5430
      @cara5430 8 місяців тому

      She is both. She is NOW diagnosed with schizophrenia. You have clearly never witnessed people going thru this. Its very terrifying and sad at the same time. You cannot help what you are doing. You cannot see whats delusional and whats real when going thru these episodes. Ìts very sad. Please note, I do not in any way shape, or form think she doesn't deserve to be punished. Im merely trying to summarize what its like to witness this. Mental health help is in the US is awful. Give them pills and send them on their way. That kind of diagnoses, you cannot do that to a person. THEY need to be monitored, in patient until they find a medicine that works for the patient. Any way, maybe I helped you understand a little bit, maybe I just made some mad. Everyone be kind, you have no idea what someone else is battling. Have a great night.

    • @cassandrawestfall60
      @cassandrawestfall60 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@cara5430specialist stated before and after the crime did not lead up to schizophrenia

    • @cassandrawestfall60
      @cassandrawestfall60 5 місяців тому

      ​@@cara5430syndney went into a rage and why she walked in while her mother was on the phone with the dean.Telling lies for sometime that college is good her grades are good and now picture her mother finding out it's all been a bunch of lies syndey did what she did to stop her mom from hearing the truerh.Specialist testified before and after the crime did not lead up to schizophrenia

  • @ReNe-js5mx
    @ReNe-js5mx 8 місяців тому +45

    I hope the jury sees it like most of us do..she is not insane at all!! I can't listen to this "expert"

    • @deedeedonald8437
      @deedeedonald8437 8 місяців тому +2

      I think most of the time the jury gets it right. They see and hear what we all hear.

    • @ashleybergstrom8934
      @ashleybergstrom8934 8 місяців тому +1

      um ah um um ah um. Driving me nuts listening to him.

    • @cleoh666
      @cleoh666 8 місяців тому

      ​@@deedeedonald8437guilty verdict has been given by the jury!

    • @deedeedonald8437
      @deedeedonald8437 8 місяців тому

      Thanks for the news I did watch it .She thought she was going to found Not Guilty@@cleoh666

    • @ryanciani3324
      @ryanciani3324 11 днів тому

      neither can um um i? who um can listen um to um this um for um an hour and 36 minutes? shut um up

  • @Lizs.Tallent
    @Lizs.Tallent 8 місяців тому +57

    The doc says she is mentally ill now Notice she isn’t crying anymore. She is spoiled is the problem 🙄

    • @musicismagic3001
      @musicismagic3001 8 місяців тому +1

      She was diagnosed and is on proper medication now.

    • @daniburke9452
      @daniburke9452 8 місяців тому

      ​@@musicismagic3001exactly

  • @Suzie-he9ni
    @Suzie-he9ni 8 місяців тому +280

    Black nails....how appropriate. She must have gone to the nail salon on her way to counseling. Shes 20 yrs old not 10. The way the court has coddled her is so unjust. Watching her doodle makes me mad. She's got a good act going on. If she doesn't go to prison we will see her in court again. It's disturbing that her family is not upset by what she did.

    • @gailmorra
      @gailmorra 8 місяців тому +6

      Money!

    • @gailmorra
      @gailmorra 8 місяців тому +20

      At least wash her hair and put a brush thru it . unless she wants to look crazy.

    • @Gabriel-hf1yy
      @Gabriel-hf1yy 8 місяців тому +19

      Shes 23 but want people to feel sorry for her like her family..

    • @kitlee172
      @kitlee172 8 місяців тому

      What a pant load.

    • @BelfastManUtdTherapy
      @BelfastManUtdTherapy 8 місяців тому +22

      all these kind of defendants exist in one form or another because of the kind of family who bring them up. theres no empathy ever it seems for the victim only the living person involved in the crime. sickening

  • @Jack-eo5fn
    @Jack-eo5fn 8 місяців тому +182

    Painful to watch a professional so incapable of communicating his field of supposed expertise.

    • @jenzen9041
      @jenzen9041 8 місяців тому +24

      So many uhs

    • @Lowcarblife27
      @Lowcarblife27 8 місяців тому +9

      Exactly

    • @user-cd6xp5lk4c
      @user-cd6xp5lk4c 8 місяців тому +20

      I think hes just nervous... not everyone wants to be a wirness on court tv.

    • @xoxodestinydawn
      @xoxodestinydawn 8 місяців тому +23

      Ummm...
      Uhhhh....
      So hard to listen to lol

    • @kikilola2954
      @kikilola2954 8 місяців тому +18

      The uh and um is killing me

  • @Barbara-ch3qf
    @Barbara-ch3qf 8 місяців тому +135

    It just seems odd to me that she has her schizo break at the exact moment her mother is discovering her lies. Timing is convenient. Not saying she isn’t mentally ill, but might be closer to psychopathy rather than schizophrenia. I’ve had schizophrenic students in my career, just doesn’t seem like the stories they told me of there breaks. She lived the lie, found herself shelter, gamed the university as long as she could, doesn’t sound like anything other than a student who really screwed up. Why she screwed up would be worth knowing. Doesn’t sound like she was partying. Glad I’m not on the jury but all my doubt is about her being insane. Too many actions that aren’t in line with being disconnected from reality.

    • @terryellis7692
      @terryellis7692 8 місяців тому +16

      Exactly. She wasn't partying. Her diagnosis would of most certainly lead to the grades dropping so low and her feeling that she needed to hide that she was thrown out of school. And the downward spiral was so fast. I truly believe in her diagnosis. I don't look at her nails or hair and judge. Everyone is different. Even going to school and seeming to believe she was still a student. There's so much that make her look like she lost touch with reality. I actually believe the insanity defense with this one. She isn't anything like Leticia Stauch. I don't thing she was melingering. I don't think she was lying.... I think she believed her version of reality. She was hearing things. I will not be shocked if she is sent to a hospital instead. And doesn't anyone think.... she is going to get treatment and they won't set her free until she is better. Then she will go on and wake-up to her actual reality. She killed her mom. She has to live with that once she is treated and healed. IF that even happens. I don't feel I'm an expert by no means but her insanity defense has me convinced based on the facts. How she acted. Her history in school. I hope she gets help. 🙏

    • @terryellis7692
      @terryellis7692 8 місяців тому +4

      Curious what actions I missed that indicated she was in touch with reality?

    • @paulajohnson6318
      @paulajohnson6318 8 місяців тому +5

      Exactly…. She even said to police mom kicked her out! There’s your motive

    • @Barbara-ch3qf
      @Barbara-ch3qf 8 місяців тому +13

      @@terryellis7692 breaking a window to claim a break in, coming up with a story of intruders, answering the phone and pretending to be her mother, etc.

    • @thewanderer1139
      @thewanderer1139 8 місяців тому

      @@terryellis7692I agree

  • @FoNgThOnG
    @FoNgThOnG 8 місяців тому +181

    Shes not insane. She instantly came up with a plan, right after bludgeoning her Moms head 7 times, on how to blame it on an intruder. She even tried to pretend she was her Mom on the phone.

    • @regular204
      @regular204 8 місяців тому +30

      She even had the ability to recognize her fingerprints would be on the knife so she told the responding officer she had picked up the knife. Seems pretty intentional and like rational thinking to me.

    • @trickortrump3292
      @trickortrump3292 8 місяців тому +15

      Oh yeah what an instant and brilliant plan! Come on. She said someone else did it. That’s a gut reaction, not a premeditated plot to get away with murder. If she’s in the midst of psychosis, she doesn’t automatically forget how the world works. She knows she killed her mom and she knows the cops will take her to jail if they know it was her. So she says it was an intruder. That hardly required a ton of rational thought.

    • @FizzleFrazle
      @FizzleFrazle 8 місяців тому +18

      @@trickortrump3292it is not legal insanity unless she HAS forgotten how the world works. You just made the case for knowing right from wrong, which legally means she was not insane

    • @Connor-vh6ex
      @Connor-vh6ex 8 місяців тому +5

      ​@@trickortrump3292You are describing mental illness. It's not the same thing.

    • @trickortrump3292
      @trickortrump3292 8 місяців тому +7

      @@FizzleFrazle That is not true. Forgetting how the world works is absolutely not required for insanity. Psychosis causes specific delusions. Having delusions about her mom that made her believe her mom had to be killed, doesn’t automatically mean she is having delusions about the police.

  • @crewd00d
    @crewd00d 8 місяців тому +19

    If she kept hearing all these noises telling her she's worthless and to kill herself, why didn't she just do that instead of killing her own mother?

  • @LenaCenter-hm9by
    @LenaCenter-hm9by 8 місяців тому +79

    I'm not buying the insanity plea! She had plently of opportunity to tell her parents about what was going on and refused to tell them 😮

    • @NotSoNormal1987
      @NotSoNormal1987 8 місяців тому +4

      Not defending her actions. But I've experienced psychosis during manic episodes. And I had no idea that my thought patterns were delusional. And so I didn't share what was going on in my head. And when I finally talked to my psychiatrist, I couldn't parse out what was factual vs what might not be real vs what might just be religious beliefs. I was pretty convinced that an evil entity was surrounding my house. And I kept hearing sounds like someone trying to break in or footsteps in my house. I was always the only person who heard these noises. I was the only one that felt like there was evil lurking outside my house.

    • @cara5430
      @cara5430 8 місяців тому +2

      😢 i honestly think people really need to sit through a crisis intervention training. I learned ALOT and mental health and how devastating it can be to live with it and/or live with someone who has these episodes. Its scary. I really, truly have empathy for these people bc they cannot help it. They have no idea...like you said, they can't see whats delusional and what's real. It's awful.

    • @cara5430
      @cara5430 8 місяців тому

      To add to that, it comes on all of a sudden. So so sad.

    • @sorrella
      @sorrella 8 місяців тому +2

      She wasn’t well… and there were signs in her grades and behavior. She was staying in a hotel. Come on ppl. This is not a Leticia

    • @sorrella
      @sorrella 8 місяців тому +2

      @@cara5430refreshing comment amongst so many heartless ones. She was detached and unwell.

  • @blitzmom2674
    @blitzmom2674 8 місяців тому +221

    she tried to cover up her crime. That's speaks of consciousness of right vs wrong. She does not deserve an insanity plea. Insanity does not mean not wanting to face consequences, or life. She deserves jail and I hope the jury sees through this nonsense.

    • @JimB16
      @JimB16 8 місяців тому +13

      Great point! She was totally aware of her actions a day their wrongfulness

    • @justbystander770
      @justbystander770 8 місяців тому +11

      They open the door for more cases like this let her take responsibility

    • @Lizs.Tallent
      @Lizs.Tallent 8 місяців тому +18

      She is spoiled is the problem. I agree not insanity!

    • @bgrim2008
      @bgrim2008 8 місяців тому

      Female = guaranteed she's not going to get the death penalty (if that was in play), guaranteed she's not going to get life in prison. I'd say 15 years to life with possibility of parole after 15 years.

    • @wolke1955
      @wolke1955 8 місяців тому +1


      Good point and it would be terrible 😮

  • @rdrgz7868
    @rdrgz7868 8 місяців тому +35

    Whatever diagnosis , she knows what she did, after killing her mom she still lied to her dad over the phone, to the college staff that returned the call, and LE when they arrived. If they are going to claim that her mental health is bad to the point that she somehow blacked out or was unaware or in a state of mind where she had no control of herself and what she was doing...
    THEN ONE THING I WANT TO ASK THE COLLEGE STAFF, SPECIFICALLY THE MALE THAT HAD THE PHONE AND RETURNED THE CALL TO MS BRENDA (GOD REST HER SOUL).. WHEN SYDNEY ANSWERED THAT CALL AND PRETENDED THAT IT WAS HER MOM WHO WAS ON THE LINE, " WHAT WAS HER TONE OF VOICE WHEN SHE SAID "IT'S ME BRENDA"..?" CALM, LOUD AND UNCONTROLLABLE, CRYING?... IF SHE TRIED TO ACT NORMAL WHEN SHE ANSWERED, THEN SHE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT SHE WAS DOING AND IS AWARE... DNT TRY TO SAY JUST HER MENTAL STATE BEING SEVERE DURING THE ATTACK AND THEN GOIN AWAY.... BS
    BUT AGAIN...JUST ONE GUY'S OPINION

    • @Jenahh-aye
      @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +2

      I was wondering as well. Was she upset. Or angry. Cold emotionless. It's so eerie that she did that. You would actually expect a fully sane person to be too in the moment crazy to do that.

    • @rdrgz7868
      @rdrgz7868 8 місяців тому +4

      @@Jenahh-aye Just the way this psychologist is describing ..... he is just making excuses for every single thing sidney did.. and painting a picture as if sidney was already loosing touch with reality months before...to where she started failing school. He's just saying that it started from there..and justify her failing school and everything else she did and lies by saying she was out of touch n her mental health was the reason... That's the only way he is trying to protect her. blaming her fails on her health...which cant be true because she see seemed to function very well the entire time leading up to that day and after... its BS to me...
      But again..just one guy's opinion

    • @rdrgz7868
      @rdrgz7868 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Jenahh-aye Jury on point like a pyramid! Those 4 experts really thought they were goin to convince the jury to sidney bein mentally unstable at the time she killed her mother, when there is plenty of evidence and her actions that prove and very clear ,show sidney fully aware of what she was doing.
      Hope she gets the help she needs to treat her mental illness and any other medical issues she might have ..... BUT all that from the comfort of her new studio in prison where she belongs. I dont wish anything bad towards her, god bless her but i dont feel bad at all for her . could care less about all her emotions and seeing her put in cuffs n out the door. she shoukd be thankful she was free well over 3 yrs..
      But again just one guy's opinion..

  • @tishwitch
    @tishwitch 8 місяців тому +28

    Smells like BS to me 💩

  • @clemjc
    @clemjc 8 місяців тому +69

    The way he’s describing schizophrenia makes me think it’s the highest level of anxiety. She couldn’t handle being an adult and having responsibilities….

    • @trickortrump3292
      @trickortrump3292 8 місяців тому +15

      Stress triggers psychosis in people who are prone to it. He’s not saying she killed her mom because she was having a panic attack. He’s saying that being overly anxious exacerbated her delusional disorder.

    • @buzzybeemee4254
      @buzzybeemee4254 8 місяців тому +1

      Hey! Stupid my mother had such high anxiety she would never drive. .

    • @MindyBeee
      @MindyBeee 8 місяців тому

      🙄

    • @HeavenlyPresley-Tonya
      @HeavenlyPresley-Tonya 8 місяців тому

      @@trickortrump3292 I Love your comments Being Bipolar - and A Dad that had Schizophrenia and My Grandfather I never met did too -- but every "Episode" can be very different for me - Delusions With Mania Hypomania going into Psychosis to only hypomania when I am in My Mania Cycle - Depressive could be MILD Or Deep Depression - Same with My Dad - Always heard voices didn't see things unless it got really bad - plus too Me Rages - Anger Sometimes Not - it's not PREDICTABLE - with your behavior - I do know when I am having Insomnia or cannot Sleep that is MY SIGN It's Coming On --- Its very very exhausting and complex I was diagnosed age 22 - I am now 56 People need to Educate Themselves on Mental Illness and NOT JUST ANXIETY DEPRESSION --- I HAVE CPTSD TOO --

    • @nikkimclay5474
      @nikkimclay5474 8 місяців тому +3

      perhaps you need to educate yourself then

  • @Char_43
    @Char_43 8 місяців тому +167

    She is malingering… I can’t stand the injustice in this trial, shame on the judge for coddling her, and her family is disgusting. That poor victim’s mother is supporting that brat. I’m out.

    • @tmp1111
      @tmp1111 8 місяців тому +9

      Exactly. Personality disordered for sure all axis II imo

    • @shortcake5472
      @shortcake5472 8 місяців тому +11

      Same. Her poor mama

    • @Jenahh-aye
      @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +11

      It's disgusting that the judge doesn't make her stay in court room. Persons who get a dui and teens caught underage drinking even outside a car, take dui classes that include videos with dead dui crash victims. People they did not themselves kill. This pos is so above the law she isn't required to look at her own gore?? Defense is probably afraid she would get too giddy looking. A lot of sociopaths like the vile crime scene photos. She didn't hold back creating hers. Probably couldn't hold back getting excited over reliving it.

    • @Jenahh-aye
      @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +6

      It's disgusting that the judge doesn't make her stay in court room. Persons who get a dui and teens caught underage drinking even outside a car, take dui classes that include videos with dead dui crash victims. People they did not themselves kill. This pos is so above the law she isn't required to look at her own gore?? Defense is probably afraid she would get too giddy looking. A lot of sociopaths like the vile crime scene photos. She didn't hold back creating hers. Probably couldn't hold back getting excited over reliving it.

    • @WendyRichards-uq3cu
      @WendyRichards-uq3cu 8 місяців тому +9

      Sadly, her mom loved her so much that, if she was still alive, she'd probably give her blessings to everyone covering for this spoiled & selfish young lady. Not justice!!

  • @agonizingpaper
    @agonizingpaper 8 місяців тому +136

    Pure evilness not mentally ill.

    • @nikkimclay5474
      @nikkimclay5474 8 місяців тому +4

      and your quals are what ?

    • @beverleytinker2318
      @beverleytinker2318 8 місяців тому +2

      @@nikkimclay5474 common sense

    • @agonizingpaper
      @agonizingpaper 6 місяців тому +1

      @misssilverandgold Troll

    • @agonizingpaper
      @agonizingpaper 6 місяців тому

      @misssilverandgold That's common sense but humans "choose" to commit evil acts.

    • @ryanciani3324
      @ryanciani3324 12 днів тому

      And you k now um that um um how?

  • @Suzie-he9ni
    @Suzie-he9ni 8 місяців тому +56

    If this expert has been to court so many times it seems like he would be able to express himself and talk more professionally. What did Sydney major in ? With her mom's background she probably had access to reference books explaining schizophrenic acts etc. I would be catatonic if I thought I was going to prison for life. I don't buy it. I certainly don't have faith in this man's assessment.

    • @ReNe-js5mx
      @ReNe-js5mx 8 місяців тому +8

      I hope the jury sees it the same way!

    • @RichardHeadGaming
      @RichardHeadGaming 8 місяців тому

      She majored in crime and cover ups.

    • @shabbydooforever
      @shabbydooforever 8 місяців тому +7

      My tht exactly....if he's a professional...and has so much experience I'd expect him to express himself much better rather than filling each of his sentences with uh or um

    • @tammyburke9453
      @tammyburke9453 8 місяців тому +6

      ​@@shabbydooforeverNo Doubt! uuuummm😮

    • @mariannewells1947
      @mariannewells1947 8 місяців тому +4

      He does not answer succinctly!

  • @nataliecassidy4298
    @nataliecassidy4298 8 місяців тому +41

    Sydney is not insane or mentally ill, she made these choices and now has to accept responsibility for her actions point blank!from AKRON, OHIO

    • @user-li5rf7vc6j
      @user-li5rf7vc6j 8 місяців тому +4

      You don’t know what you are saying ! What a shame!!!! . We as parents went through the same trauma and thank God their was not a self harm or harm to somebody else. Still living with this problem , I can only say thank God that I am still able to love and TRUST this person, if they keep taking their meds. Go on your knees and thank our Lord that he didn’t chose you, perhaps he knew you !.

  • @margaretconnery7422
    @margaretconnery7422 8 місяців тому +96

    Hopefully the Jury will see through the bullshit and lies.

    • @lesleyhughes3174
      @lesleyhughes3174 8 місяців тому +4

      Hopefully not too many in there with your psyche!

    • @DR-mq1vn
      @DR-mq1vn 8 місяців тому +8

      I hope the jury can see through all the bs too. Poor Brenda was brutally murdered by her daughter. Sydney knew right from wrong. I don't guy this whole mental health excuse.

    • @msangelz
      @msangelz 8 місяців тому +6

      Her issue is she doesn’t like consequences! Doesn’t want to take any ownership nothing! She has enablers too to help her.

    • @mehmet24a
      @mehmet24a 8 місяців тому

      she is sick and insane.. we should accept this

    • @lisamilligan240
      @lisamilligan240 8 місяців тому +3

      Your all right.
      A spoiled brat.
      I wonder what her mother's reaction was.
      Did she get mad?
      I just don't understand her doing this if her mother said they would work it out.

  • @pelerin8526
    @pelerin8526 8 місяців тому +31

    Psychologist Describes Sydney Powell: ‘One of the Most Severe Cases’ He has seen in 40 years…. I have worked in mental health for over 30 years and if this is the most severe case of psychosis he has seen, it is because he has only observed very few cases. It's even ridiculous to say that...

    • @yorkierussell9255
      @yorkierussell9255 8 місяців тому +2

      Yeeeaaahhh. I have to agree with you there. That statement shocked me. If Sydney’s the worst case he’s seen, then he’d have a field day learning about what happen to one of my relatives. Then again, his was probably one of the worst cases some people have seen, too.

    • @LuvableAF
      @LuvableAF 7 місяців тому +1

      What did he testify 3-400 times over the 40 years for? I miss something?

    • @pepelepewx
      @pepelepewx 7 місяців тому +2

      paid , uh um er opinion.

    • @jtaoufiq
      @jtaoufiq 7 місяців тому +1

      If you really had worked in mental health you wouldn’t give an opinion on a patient without examining them.

  • @TrudylynnGunn
    @TrudylynnGunn 8 місяців тому +16

    I have had friends that suffer from schizophrenia.... she certainly is NOT severe if at all.. she is guilty by reason of selfish little girl syndrome....

    • @anastasiabeaverhousing8192
      @anastasiabeaverhousing8192 8 місяців тому

      Same here! I have a close cousin of mine who developed schizophrenia in his early 20’s and I can’t think of a time when he hurt someone and try to cover it up such as Sydney did.

  • @CaseyRhyneXoXo
    @CaseyRhyneXoXo 8 місяців тому +36

    It's so bizarre that they're attempting a mental health defense. 🤦🤦 She wasn't handling her emotions appropriately. She clearly needed some better coping strategies. Regardless she's guilty of murder and has to do the time for the horrific crime. Murder will not help one to avoid having to face hard truths and murder definitely causes your family more sadness and disappointment than bad grades ever will.

    • @gewurztramina
      @gewurztramina 8 місяців тому +6

      There’s a reason why the mental health defense exists. Some people cannot be held responsible for their actions because of being mentally insane. What the expert says makes a lot of sense

    • @joan-lisa-smith
      @joan-lisa-smith 8 місяців тому +2

      No, experts know nothing, it's people on YT commenting under videos with no background in the field who have never met anyone involved who have all the answers and know "what's really going on" LOL@@gewurztramina

    • @Schiffon
      @Schiffon 8 місяців тому

      @@joan-lisa-smith✔️

    • @thetruth5914
      @thetruth5914 8 місяців тому +1

      The job of court system isn't to feel sorry for her, but justice for all. The US has a poor mental health system. Its sad how those testifying of her mental status will use their position to gain unjustly. Leniency? No. Yes Justice & mercy. I see a lot of inpartialiality starting from the judge on down. I believe in justice for all. None is above the law including those of high economic status. People see how u respond in the courtroom Pacific ing her. Is this your character for all? Or do you exhibit this character for some. We see and compare within our court system. You had a mentally ill person on death row& executed a mentally retarded women. This is our court system. I believe in equality. You don't do for one, and not the other. We are watching you & expecting you to give justice& no partiality. Ain't nobody to good to good to be penalize. Were not stupid.

    • @jeanettecoleman-mz7ie
      @jeanettecoleman-mz7ie 8 місяців тому

      Bravo for the ONE shrink to say she doesn't have Schizophrenia!

  • @lisamilligan240
    @lisamilligan240 8 місяців тому +22

    Good too see most people are seeing through this girl.
    Hope the jury isnt swayed by her poor family's need to keep her out of jail.

  • @TheRight-handedStranger
    @TheRight-handedStranger 8 місяців тому +15

    I always suspect an independent psychologist who works for the defense for extra money.

  • @denisehoose5162
    @denisehoose5162 8 місяців тому +63

    I feel like Brenda is getting no justice in this court trial. Entire family making excuses for this spiiled entitled brat. All the males that did this went down. No sympathy. If this woman/child gets off it will be such a tragedy. She knew exactly what she was doing when her mom answered that phone from the college. She purposely beat her to death.

    • @DR-mq1vn
      @DR-mq1vn 8 місяців тому +10

      It is making me angry too. I stand and demand justice for Brenda! Since Brenda's own family won't demand it, we all need to demand it!

    • @wolke1955
      @wolke1955 8 місяців тому +8

      Her father is a nice person, but he did nothing as a Dad to help his poor wife to take responsibility together with Sydney.
      He wanted to be only the NICE parent and this is why a Mom/his wife got killed 😮
      If my grand daughter would have killed my beloved daughter, I could not live with her together - I would want justice for my killed daughter!!!

    • @zoriya7224
      @zoriya7224 8 місяців тому +2

      @@wolke1955 ...and who says she won't do the same thing to her. No, I couldn't be around her at all.

    • @wolke1955
      @wolke1955 8 місяців тому +2

      @@zoriya7224
      Me either 😳

  • @tesserene
    @tesserene 8 місяців тому +20

    I would not want this monster within spitting distance of me or any of my loved ones - ever! No matter the outcome of this trial, it is blindingly evident this girl has dad wrapped around her little finger. Mum out of the way? Voila! She has simply come down with terminal laziness

  • @SK_TorON
    @SK_TorON 8 місяців тому +64

    It is astonishing how unprofessional this psychologist is! Setting aside his annoyingly poor communication skills, his reasoning is that of a most naive layman: "She did something SO-O-O crazy, therefore she must be crazy." Some expert!

    • @texasrefugee7888
      @texasrefugee7888 8 місяців тому +14

      I worked in inpatient psychiatry for several years and learned there are a lot of incredible psychiatrists and psychologists, but there's also some need treatment much more than their patients. And I wouldn't trust a mental health professional hired by a defense attorney. They'll do anything for those big bucks.

    • @madisonohare4012
      @madisonohare4012 8 місяців тому +17

      All his um, um, um lying been paid big bucks by daddy

    • @caterinascarcella
      @caterinascarcella 8 місяців тому +7

      And he’s not suppose to read notes

    • @delib636
      @delib636 8 місяців тому +9

      Dr. Umm 😂

    • @Elegant_Sausage
      @Elegant_Sausage 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@texasrefugee7888I once heard a psychologist joke about how therapists and psychologists end up adopting their patients' illnesses and I can see why they said that lol

  • @JimB16
    @JimB16 8 місяців тому +20

    Are we going to see the cross examination of this witness? There is plenty of opportunity for the prosecution to challenge his opinions and conclusions.

    • @Christy-.
      @Christy-. 8 місяців тому +2

      That’s what I was waiting to see :(

    • @JimB16
      @JimB16 8 місяців тому +5

      @@Christy-. For sure Christy... If the prosecution is prepared and did some research...they can really minimize the impact of this "expert."

  • @Hey_its_just_me_to
    @Hey_its_just_me_to 8 місяців тому +6

    Even if she doesn’t have schizophrenia, that was some kind of rage to hurt her mother like that to the point where she died, that is not normal!

  • @julsjewels3185
    @julsjewels3185 8 місяців тому +146

    If you fabricate a story, you are not mentally ill just plain evil!!!

    • @nikkimclay5474
      @nikkimclay5474 8 місяців тому +3

      she was diagnosed, listen & learn !

    • @wolke1955
      @wolke1955 8 місяців тому +1

      🎯

    • @nikkimclay5474
      @nikkimclay5474 8 місяців тому

      @@wolke1955 educated 🙋🏻‍♀️

    • @FizzleFrazle
      @FizzleFrazle 8 місяців тому

      She may be mentally ill but she obviously isn’t legally insane

    • @simpinainteasyRHEC
      @simpinainteasyRHEC 8 місяців тому +6

      Lol please do list all your credentials, doc.
      🤔 🤡

  • @thedumasgroupllc
    @thedumasgroupllc 8 місяців тому +35

    Are you kidding me? She was experiencing the realities of a first year college student. she didn't understand she wasn't in high school anymore. She couldn't bs her way around her studies like she could in high school. She actually had to be responsible for her study time, but instead of doing that, she was parting with her friends and not holding herself accountable to her studies. A lot of students go through this. It's not a sign of mental illness, it's a sign that she's undisciplined. The reason why mom got hit with the Pan and not Dad is because Mom was the disciplinarian and was holding her accountable, while dad just sat on his hands like a chump. Maybe if he helped his wife discipline, his daughter, his wife would be alive right now.

    • @Ronald-pe8di
      @Ronald-pe8di 8 місяців тому

      Sometimes it goes off the second year. A young lady visited Mark next room. Grades fell. In the spring break she kills herself. Suicide.

    • @snsn7251
      @snsn7251 8 місяців тому +1

      She's showing the scam artist she is. Wat a nerve!

    • @crystalhanson1483
      @crystalhanson1483 8 місяців тому +4

      I feel, Sydney Powell should be under HER father's roof AND YOUNGER BROTHER with Grandmother on the farm. That way the father has to "finally" keep checking on her to see if she stayed inside the house! Check to see IF she took her meds (counting the pills in the bottles)! Cooking her meals and GIVING her those meds! Check on her numerous times a day and CALL the doctor's offices to SEE that she went to the therapists/psychologist and etc. ! But? How long would that last BEFORE the father TELLS GRANDMOTHER TO DEAL WITH HER? ? ? ? ?

    • @felicious8015
      @felicious8015 8 місяців тому +3

      ​@@crystalhanson1483Or until she kills one of them or someone else.

    • @crystalhanson1483
      @crystalhanson1483 8 місяців тому

      Where I grew up and went to School and THINGS DIDN'T CHANGE in the School (BOARD) System when my sons went through school. IF your parents and grandparent had $ $MONEY$ $, during Middle & High School those kids didn't have to DO ANY WORK! Sat in Class, head down on desk, went to sleep, teachers woke them up so they could go to next class and SLEEP. Those kids got all the scholarships! Those Middle & High School teachers FALSIFIED their School Files with GLOWING LIES so the Collage they chose would take them based on that FALSIFIED File(s). . .the Parents had more than enough $ $MONEY$ $ to PAY for their Partying and many GOT that "piece-of-paper"; BOUGHT and PAID FOR BY RICH PARENTS! ! Not fair to lower class kids who had BRAINS and wanted a High Education in the Field(s) they were STRONG in.@@felicious8015

  • @joanneford356
    @joanneford356 8 місяців тому +6

    I wish he’d stop saying “um “ the lawyer is doing it too!

  • @elinayvette
    @elinayvette 8 місяців тому +67

    This guy is not describing a schizophrenic person, he is describing a liar.

    • @elinayvette
      @elinayvette 8 місяців тому +4

      Can’t believe that he excusing someone’s behavior to create their own realities - so wrong.

    • @tamimoncrief2264
      @tamimoncrief2264 8 місяців тому +11

      This "expert's" diagnosis is laughable, don't think he even believes what he's saying...

    • @lindaumbarger2025
      @lindaumbarger2025 8 місяців тому

      This so called, 'doctor' is being paid. They will say anything if they are paid

    • @elinayvette
      @elinayvette 8 місяців тому +2

      I think that’s why he needed that restroom break.. 🫤

    • @ellybean5868
      @ellybean5868 8 місяців тому +1

      If you pay me $25,000 I will diagnose her with whatever you want...that's this Drs opinion

  • @guntrader5652
    @guntrader5652 8 місяців тому +18

    It will be such a relief when the “ guilty verdict “ is read and she’s immediately remanded. Imagine the scene that unfolds once she hears the “ guilty words “?……… We will see mayhem I predict

    • @Schiffon
      @Schiffon 8 місяців тому +2

      What if she’s on meds right now to comfort her in such a scary trial? Probably no blowup. Sorry

    • @MySanty2010
      @MySanty2010 8 місяців тому +1

      I can’t wait to see it

  • @noneyabusiness8738
    @noneyabusiness8738 8 місяців тому +121

    I really hope she doesn’t get off on this. This is not mental illness.

    • @Jenahh-aye
      @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +8

      💯. It isnt insanity. She is dangerous and without humanity. It would be so dangerous for all of society if she's not kept in a cell for the rest of her life.

    • @karolynknight931
      @karolynknight931 8 місяців тому +9

      I feel for the family, they have been completely snowed by this young lady. I don’t think the jury is though.

    • @justbystander770
      @justbystander770 8 місяців тому +5

      I am afraid she will get off like the girl who murders her father with the fluid

    • @audreymai2773
      @audreymai2773 8 місяців тому

      I disagree. I think she IS mentally ill. Not insane though. You would have to be mentally ill to kill someone. Even killing a stranger for no reason you would have to be mentally ill. But your mom? Wowza. But yeah, she is sick in the head, but she knew what she was doing, therefore NOT insane.

    • @audreymai2773
      @audreymai2773 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@justbystander770 what case is that? You talking about the girl who purposefully allegedly threw lye on her dad? I actually don't think she did that on purpose. I think the judge got it right.

  • @TaharkahX
    @TaharkahX 8 місяців тому +68

    Poor Brenda. 😢 She was brutally and mercilessly killed by her own daughter, then her family all joined together to help the killer get away with it!

    • @margaretsanfran7410
      @margaretsanfran7410 8 місяців тому

      Brenda was the evil lots SCAPEGOAT IN LIFE & DEATH HER MOTHER HUSBAND & DAUGHTER ARE A DISGRACE ...SYNDNEY POWELL DESERVES LIFE ...ONLY WAY JUSTICE WILL BE DONE FOR BRENDA THAT WAY THE OTHERS SUFFER LIKE THEY MADE BRENDA SUFFER THE 3 OF THEM HAVE LIED ABOUT THE FULL FAMILY DYNAMIC A 5 YEAR OLD COULD SEE THERES SOMETHING DRASTCALLY WRONG WITHIN THAT FAMILY & BRENDAS SON KNOWS IT ...POOR WOMAN DOING A CARING JOB MURDERED BY HER LUNATIC OF A DAUGHTER ...HEARTBREAKING 💔

    • @cassandrawestfall60
      @cassandrawestfall60 5 місяців тому

      I wonder if the family was ever able to grieve over the loss of life cause immediately went to trying to save daughter from conviction

    • @cassandrawestfall60
      @cassandrawestfall60 5 місяців тому

      I wonder if the family was ever able to grieve over the loss of life cause immediately went to trying to save daughter from conviction

  • @elotralee7700
    @elotralee7700 8 місяців тому +69

    Sydney reminds me of the entitled teenager who threw drain cleaner on her father when she didn’t get her way.

    • @RestorativeRenaissance
      @RestorativeRenaissance 8 місяців тому +6

      I actually clicked the video a little confused because I thought it was her even though her case has been heard.

    • @Skibidiplushies
      @Skibidiplushies 8 місяців тому +11

      She's worse imo. The other case, her dad was an alcoholic, there were probably experiences she had because of that and she actually appeared remorseful at trial, just imo anyway but this monster has zero remorse and insists on being tret like a baby

    • @nikkimclay5474
      @nikkimclay5474 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Skibidiplushies how do you know her remorse ? you dont

    • @emmyemmy8669
      @emmyemmy8669 8 місяців тому +9

      sydney is worse. sydney continually lied and actually beat her caring mother to death. the other case the teenager might not have known how serious the cleaning agent would be and the dad was somewhat abusive…. sydney comes from a caring household and just didn’t want to be held accountable for failing college.

    • @cosmic.x.dreams
      @cosmic.x.dreams 8 місяців тому +2

      ⁠​⁠@@nikkimclay5474damn I see you riding pretty hard for a murderer under all these comments.

  • @blitzmom2674
    @blitzmom2674 8 місяців тому +16

    this guy needs help, since he can't seem to say more than four or five words without an ummm ahhhh in between. Sometimes just a couple of words. I suppose when you are a shrink and charge by the hour it lets you drag out the hour. I pity his patients waiting through all those ummm,ahhhhh, uhnnnnnn while he gets the words out.

  • @adonyisrael1724
    @adonyisrael1724 8 місяців тому +41

    Somebody give her an Academy Award !!! 😁

  • @caterinascarcella
    @caterinascarcella 8 місяців тому +10

    If she was hallucinating than why actually brake the window ?

  • @susiehoyle6113
    @susiehoyle6113 8 місяців тому +16

    Could it be she was spoiled and expected everybody and everything should go her way,maybe not a great student or smart enough to succeed

  • @tle8137
    @tle8137 8 місяців тому +35

    Not saying it couldn’t happen but in my first year Calculus class, 80% dropped out after the first test. They were straight A students at their schools. I had my first C in first year. I failed a class for the first time in my life in the first year. Half of my resident hall dropped out of the programs they enrolled in because, shocker to us all, university is hard! Doing well in high school meant nothing in first year of college because we were all the “smart ones” from our high schools. NONE OF US “DISASSOCIATE” to the point where we bash our mothers heads in and yes, I had a friend who pretended to go to school for a whole year after failing out first semester. I hope they have better defense than this. Unless none of the jurors went to college, they should recognize that these are not “psychotic episodes”. She experienced major embarrassment and killed the person whom she most felt shameful toward (and that’s my Psychology 101 course talking lol).

    • @margaretlumley1648
      @margaretlumley1648 8 місяців тому +4

      I agree with you 100%. In some courses where I live, in first year Uni, less than 90% of students complete the course

    • @crystalhanson1483
      @crystalhanson1483 8 місяців тому

      I agree! In the Olden Days, back in the 1970's; it was the "SAME WAY"! The kids who wanted to go on to Higher Education TALKED to the Guidance Counselor, who told them how to get their education in the field(s) they wanted by going to cheaper "S C H O O L S", where they could get their Education in 2 years instead of 4 and where to take a course or 2 at ________ or
      __________! How much it would cost and everything. It was called "pay" for your education as you go. Takes longer, you WILL GET THERE :)

    • @Lisa.pizzza
      @Lisa.pizzza 8 місяців тому +2

      So you have a PhD in Psychiatry or actual experience treating patients with mental disorders?

    • @kellym4747
      @kellym4747 7 місяців тому +1

      As you say, many college students go through similar difficulties in college, yet you say “none of us disassociate “to the point she did - exactly. Those who do not are normal. Those who do have something seriously wrong with them. So why is it impossible for you to think it’s a mental disorder, schizophrenia, or psychotic episode?

  • @HerdItThruTheGrapeVine
    @HerdItThruTheGrapeVine 8 місяців тому +10

    But Doctor if Sydney thought she fixed it and was living in that reality, then why did she tell her father she didn’t have her stuff together when all her friends did?

  • @deniselivingston8331
    @deniselivingston8331 8 місяців тому +24

    If this Dr feels Sydney was schizophrenic and had delusions, why was she coherent enough to lie to her father and law enforcement? She was also trying to keep her expulsions from her mother. And she would do anything and did by killing her. I'm sorry but, I'm not buying it.

    • @nickeyschrader285
      @nickeyschrader285 8 місяців тому +1

      That doctor with his aaaaammmm..aaammmm..is too much for me..

    • @georgiaborak2194
      @georgiaborak2194 8 місяців тому

      I don’t know about her guilt or innocence, but psychotic patients do & often can lie. Not always, but it’s not impossible. If you believe your delusions & have a break from reality- you can still lie due to paranoia and your convictions. I think many assume that psychotic means “appearing totally deranged/crazy,” but that’s not always the case.

  • @jaynellewellyn7628
    @jaynellewellyn7628 8 місяців тому +27

    Amazing, no fake tears now it is not the prosecution, just doodling. I have never known of a defendant with mental health conditions allowed to go in and out of the courtroom at will. Perhaps someone can explain why this is?

    • @diannedocherty3816
      @diannedocherty3816 8 місяців тому +5

      She goes home every night with her peeps..very odd

    • @Char_43
      @Char_43 8 місяців тому +8

      It’s a travesty, obviously getting special treatment. She’ll walk, wait til she freaks out on granny.

    • @tishwitch
      @tishwitch 8 місяців тому

      ​@@Char_43agreed. There's no way I'd let this psycho stay with my grandma 😂

    • @aprillucas-boyle222
      @aprillucas-boyle222 8 місяців тому

      What I read was that There were many pre trial hearings that despite being heavily medicated certain aspects would likely lead to decompensation and re start psychosis. I believe the judge made the final determination but I hasn’t read of prosecution agreed as well or not.

    • @gailmorra
      @gailmorra 8 місяців тому

      ​@@Char_43she'll get bored at grannies after awhile. What type of life will she lead now.she just got branded as a fruitcake.

  • @HiroshimaMS
    @HiroshimaMS 8 місяців тому +42

    Who hasn't seen a situation in which a child who lied to his mother started kicking or hitting her, when the mother was about to realize his lie? For me Sydney is not schizophrenic, she just remained a child, that happens to overprotected children. But I could be wrong, after all I'm not a psychologist...

    • @lovepet4565
      @lovepet4565 8 місяців тому +1

      I agree
      Coddled
      Babied
      Enabled

    • @Jenahh-aye
      @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +18

      This. She was never held accountable. She still isn't. Look at this shitshow.

    • @texasrefugee7888
      @texasrefugee7888 8 місяців тому +19

      It looks like her Daddy was a Disneyland dad that let her get away with anything. And let Mommy be the bad guy, that set limits. I think daddy might feel guilty he created this situation. He only called her college for financial information.

    • @carriewittbrodt5072
      @carriewittbrodt5072 8 місяців тому

      ​@@texasrefugee7888 Her father testified he asked her why she was not in class, and she told him classes had been canceled. She had ample time to either make up the classes or come clean to one or both of her parents. She choice the lies and finally murder when it was coming out and lies were no longer going to work. She's not mentally ill. She's a lier and a killer.

    • @VanessaKittredge
      @VanessaKittredge 8 місяців тому +9

      Yikes you have a point there. Though he surely is destroyed and didn’t plan on his daughter murdering his wife… they both likely coddled her, made excuses and didn’t give boundaries. This girl doesn’t tolerate disappointment.

  • @conniep3164
    @conniep3164 8 місяців тому +26

    Appalling witness. Embarrassing

    • @janicebosnjak3351
      @janicebosnjak3351 8 місяців тому +5

      Very painful to listen to…um..um..um

    • @HillpostFarms
      @HillpostFarms 8 місяців тому +2

      a lot of "umh, umh" crutch words. Isn't this typically seen as "I don't believe what I'm saying?"

  • @azrobbins01
    @azrobbins01 8 місяців тому +8

    Does the court reporter have to write down all those errs and umms?

    • @gailmorra
      @gailmorra 8 місяців тому +2

      She types a $ instead

    • @Jenahh-aye
      @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +1

      Yes. Hopefully they get a decent Christmas bonus.

  • @princekareem
    @princekareem 8 місяців тому +8

    Her family decided what her defence would be and got her the resources accordingly

  • @PNW_KT
    @PNW_KT 8 місяців тому +13

    I will never understand why these psychologists with such a great, long career will take these cases and just erase all the good they’ve done! This guy cannot believe what he’s saying. There is no way!

  • @sunitamosesesq
    @sunitamosesesq 8 місяців тому +19

    She had shame, anxiety, and she didn't want to ANSWER to her mother! It's not that she was afraid her mother would find out -- she knew that she would have to talk, explain herself, and be held accountable for her actions, and she was totally unwilling to do it! So far, I've heard NOTHING that isn't completely normal for teenagers under a lot of stress. Feeling unworthy, deep anxiety, feeling like she's not good enough, a failure... C'mon! Other teens who screw up badly don't murder their parents in a rage. They go home, take their lumps and develop some humility. I wish they would get real about this girl's relationship with her Mom. The Mom seems like she was more upfront and direct, and willing to confront her daughter. Initially the reports said the two were arguing, and that seems much more likely to me. But then she took it to this unbelievable level, because she can't face the reality of her actions at school. I truly hope that she finally does have to face what she's done here.

    • @kellym4747
      @kellym4747 7 місяців тому

      And if she had a rational mind, as you seem to think, she would realize that killing her mother would be a stupid mistake, and she’d get in serious trouble.

  • @ytkimberly4629
    @ytkimberly4629 8 місяців тому +6

    I just cant get passed the "um, um, um." How can someone not recognize this in oneself?

  • @dawnmoore9783
    @dawnmoore9783 8 місяців тому +5

    He’s driving me nuts with his ummm ughh every other word!

  • @samdep1459
    @samdep1459 8 місяців тому +24

    WOW! The perfectly kept and polished dark nails caught my eye today... I honestly felt sorry for her, but the manicured nails have really thrown me. If I were in her shoes, I think a mani would be the last thing on my mind. Her hair and makeup v. nails... now it seems the defense is playing to something...but forgot to mention, "don't get a mani..." WILD.

    • @vikkyvictoriaf2395
      @vikkyvictoriaf2395 8 місяців тому +4

      I noticed the nails too especially since she tries so hard to look disheveled.

    • @sarahholland2600
      @sarahholland2600 8 місяців тому +3

      They look like overly long stick on nails. But yes, odd . You'd think her defense team would say that's not a good idea.

  • @GrandmaMarlayne
    @GrandmaMarlayne 8 місяців тому +4

    Many people do not understand the mindset of a person with schizophrenia. It is one of the worst condition a person can suffer with. I have personal experience with my mother and her horrible suffering with this condition. The medical field in its infancy with understanding this diagnosis. My mother was not dangerous or violent, but she was fearful, saw and heard things that did not exist. It is a real hell on earth.

  • @YackBackatcha
    @YackBackatcha 8 місяців тому +14

    The family dynamics of being perfect academically caused this. Always expose your kids to failure. Teach them to embrace and learn through failure.

    • @emmyemmy8669
      @emmyemmy8669 8 місяців тому +2

      don’t know…first time i experience failing was at stanford. i was suddenly expose to intelligent students from all around the world. it was tough but i didn’t kill my parents. it was painful as well as humiliating failing a class and admitting that i am below average in intelligence.

    • @posadafan2058
      @posadafan2058 8 місяців тому

      @@emmyemmy8669 @YackBackatcha Emmy emmy...seriously doubt you are "below average" if you got into Stanford! But, point made, about the other. Killing your parents as a result of them not teaching you how to fail? Sorry, no excuse.

  • @unstoppable39
    @unstoppable39 8 місяців тому +8

    She stayed at the university because she didn't want to go home for her parents to find out that she was no longer there.
    What about if all students after being kicked out go and kill their parents. What she has done was the same as what others have done and they end up getting life sentences for murdering someone. She is no different.
    If she could lie after murdering her mum, staging things like it was an intruder who did it...then she knew exactly what she had done. LIFE FOR LIFE and JUSTICE FOR HER POOR MOTHER 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

  • @Couldawouldashoulda1
    @Couldawouldashoulda1 8 місяців тому +14

    Where’s the full trial or do we only get snippets 🤷‍♀️

    • @13Liberty50
      @13Liberty50 8 місяців тому +3

      more like cut aways

    • @Jenahh-aye
      @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +3

      It's disgusting. They should never let cour TV have rights. The fact they charge is infringement.

    • @jwilder13450
      @jwilder13450 8 місяців тому +2

      I would love the full trial

    • @gailmorra
      @gailmorra 8 місяців тому

      If your connected to cable but online snippets

  • @janyam1955
    @janyam1955 8 місяців тому +5

    If you don’t know schizophrenia you have no idea how it affects a person.

  • @JessicaComptonHR
    @JessicaComptonHR 8 місяців тому +13

    Funny thing how her descent into schizophrenia didn’t affect her attending sorority events and classes. Hmm.

    • @kellym4747
      @kellym4747 7 місяців тому +1

      Are there attendance lists to indicate if she went to all of them? Lol. They discussed schizophrenia may come on suddenly, this could have been an early event, brought on by stress.

    • @JessicaComptonHR
      @JessicaComptonHR 7 місяців тому

      @@kellym4747 that’s a weird flex taking up for someone who murders anyone to cover up their lies about the life they are choosing.

    • @kellym4747
      @kellym4747 7 місяців тому +1

      @@JessicaComptonHR The murder is terrible. I just continue to be amazed by how many people are so sure they “know” this or they “know” that, or this person is guilty or this person didn’t have a psychotic break, or schizophrenia, or whatever. Or know that it didn’t affect her sorority events. From her reported history and family input, this murder was totally crazy and out of character.

  • @Jenahh-aye
    @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +9

    If she was so sucicidal why didn't she go that route instead of this vile action? I dont think for one minute she was suicidal. She was entitled. She was committed to her manipulations. She was in a dumbass dumpsterfire of her lies. She lacked the humility and accountability to accept her short comings and mistakes. And god help every person defending her on the stand if she gets out on this bogus insanity charge. Because the blood of every victim after is on their souls too.

  • @Victoria_USA_
    @Victoria_USA_ 8 місяців тому +7

    I don't believe she's crazy.

  • @kpCatz
    @kpCatz 8 місяців тому +6

    She’s just eating this crap up

  • @felicious8015
    @felicious8015 8 місяців тому +9

    I've had plenty panic attacks, been depressed, all of those things, i would never even think about hurting one of my parents... NEVER!! I hope the jury sees through this bull$**t!!! Spoiled brat with a Father that was scared of her and never made her take accountability and never disapplined her.

  • @crazyflowerlady1060
    @crazyflowerlady1060 8 місяців тому +7

    So put her in a mental health facility for the remainder of her life and be done with all this.

  • @judydyer
    @judydyer 8 місяців тому +16

    She'll ....ummm....get in touch...ummm.... with reality....umm.....in prison.

  • @tigerlily9981
    @tigerlily9981 8 місяців тому +25

    Physicians should start getting penalized for lying for defenses in the stand.
    That would put a slow-down on these monsters using this fake defense.
    It hurts people with REAL mental illness.

    • @Jenahh-aye
      @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +3

      I am in full support of this.

    • @celinescrappassion2184
      @celinescrappassion2184 8 місяців тому +5

      he is not a physician. He is a psychologist. A psychologist is not a medical physician.

    • @lumturibeca9028
      @lumturibeca9028 8 місяців тому +1

      Sad to say and think but she’s a danger to society! More to the people around her /family;; If she diagnosed with Schizophrenia ,people around her will be always in danger,she may wake up on a middle of the night and kill someone else too!! Agreed Shes NOT NORMAL,But I don’t think she’s Schizophrenic,,,Obviously you feel bad about her in such a Yonge age ;we never know what she have been through,only she knows ,,,I feel bad for her family/father /grandmother is very very hard for them,,she still their baby ; And parents never give up in their children (even if they deserve to be panished ) they make mistakes,parents/family wants to be there for them .Sad Story will Hunt her all her life 😢

    • @lovepet4565
      @lovepet4565 8 місяців тому +1

      It really sucks for people with schizophrenia who are not murderers
      I just find it suspicious that this is now a retrograde diagnosis to get out of a murder charge
      If she is found NG by reason of insanity
      The family will push for not going to a forensic hospital 🏥 but back to grannies farm

    • @travellpc191
      @travellpc191 8 місяців тому

      At face value, her behaviors do not meet the criteria of schizophrenia in the DSM5, the scientific manual he should be using. But he’s MAKING it fit. A decline in an academic environment is a criterion for most disorders in the DSM5, it is NOT a specific indicator of schizophrenia. 🤷🏽‍♀️

  • @marcypadrta9177
    @marcypadrta9177 8 місяців тому +34

    People with Sever mental illness respond in different ways- but I truly believe she's faking it. In her fear of mother's reaction she choose to attack. Just my thinking. She was "sane" in the respect of planning how to cover up her lies. Just my thinking.

    • @adonyisrael1724
      @adonyisrael1724 8 місяців тому +2

      I agree with you! 🤨

    • @BelfastManUtdTherapy
      @BelfastManUtdTherapy 8 місяців тому

      i agree, no-one ever has auditory hallucinations it seems telling them to go check if someone is ok or go help someone, its always go and KILL someone.

    • @darkmankind
      @darkmankind 8 місяців тому +1

      I can get with that.

  • @VieraRabbit
    @VieraRabbit 8 місяців тому +10

    How can a psychologist say that feeling worthless and being a failure is a hallucination. I haven’t heard so much nonsense for a while.

  • @sandradavis6760
    @sandradavis6760 8 місяців тому +4

    I am concerned for the grandparents and pray for their strength and protection.

  • @Jenahh-aye
    @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +9

    The magnitude of the injuries is the result of a lack of empathy and level of pleasure derived from the power and pain she was inflicting.

  • @Soulbrothersunny
    @Soulbrothersunny 8 місяців тому +2

    If I had a dime for every time this man contradicted his testimony I’d be able to pay the national debt.

  • @imnotokmjimissu
    @imnotokmjimissu 8 місяців тому +3

    Her behaviors leading up to the murder suggest she is no schizophrenic, that's ridiculous. The family standing behind her is a slap in the face to her murdered mother, the one who called her out. She attacked her while she was on the phone about to learn she was on academic probation. Her father knew, told her they would work it out, so why kill her mother. A man is supposed to lead, but they often leave it to the wives. Sidney lying at the level she was should have been addressed by both parents, but he left his wife to deal with Little Ms. Perfect, who had been lying to everyone, and it finally came to a head, culminating into murder that wouldn't have happened had he been there and now he's standing by her? What s betrayal to his poor wife. Sidney wasn't insane when she lied to the dean and her father. She's going to prison.

  • @mariaasimon3117
    @mariaasimon3117 8 місяців тому +4

    The doctor over reacted with his diagnosis panic attacks don't lead to kill.

  • @TheRight-handedStranger
    @TheRight-handedStranger 8 місяців тому +29

    This psychologist described many embarrassed students who failed at school, who rather be alone and don’t want to face their parents.

    • @gewurztramina
      @gewurztramina 8 місяців тому +3

      Those embarrassed students don’t show psychotic symptoms and are not diagnosed with schizophrenia. It’s very different

    • @snsn7251
      @snsn7251 8 місяців тому +4

      He's getting paid to say what they want him to say. Sad

    • @TheRight-handedStranger
      @TheRight-handedStranger 8 місяців тому

      @@gewurztramina - Well people who diagnosed with schizophrenia don’t normally kill their patients, don’t pretend on the phone after killing their mothers that they are their mothers, and especially don’t lie to the police claiming someone broke in and killed their mothers, because they didn’t have the time to clean up.
      Maybe she didn’t planned to kill her, but probably something that her mother might have said unknowingly made her daughter enraged and when she got caught she lost it, couldn’t believe what she has done and the shame it brings.

    • @TheRight-handedStranger
      @TheRight-handedStranger 8 місяців тому +1

      @@snsn7251 - Exactly. Especially because he is independent and will take any case that he thinks he can convince the jury with agreeing with the hospital report. I think she was panicked after she saw the police officers. If it was a guy and reacted exactly the same they would have said he is lying just panicked after the fact.

    • @Schiffon
      @Schiffon 8 місяців тому

      @@gewurztraminaexactly 👍

  • @eddypaul8959
    @eddypaul8959 8 місяців тому +5

    I don't think any punishment could be as bad as the hell of schizophrenia.

    • @FizzleFrazle
      @FizzleFrazle 8 місяців тому +1

      It’s treatable. You can live a normal life with schizophrenia. There are definitely worse punishments

    • @yorkierussell9255
      @yorkierussell9255 8 місяців тому +1

      @@FizzleFrazleHaving your schizophrenia end up in probably the worst outcome possible is definitely a lifelong hell. A very similar thing happened to one of my family members. Tragic is an understatement.

  • @Couldawouldashoulda1
    @Couldawouldashoulda1 8 місяців тому +10

    Interesting how there’s no tear s when her defence psych is talking 🤔🤷‍♀️

    • @gailmorra
      @gailmorra 8 місяців тому +2

      Exactly.

    • @delib636
      @delib636 8 місяців тому

      She was trying to squeeze out a tear at the end 🙄

  • @kikilola2954
    @kikilola2954 8 місяців тому +6

    I just want to say that schizophrenia is a very complex disease and is very subtle before psychosis starts. I'm not saying that is what's happening here or not. I'm just saying it is possible. I think most people think they know what schizophrenia looks like but really have no idea of the scope of the symptoms and the abilities of the people who suffer with this have in masking those symptoms. As someone who has personal connections with someone with schizophrenia and several people with bipolar depression, my opinion is that it is definitely possible that Sydney is mentally ill. I know that is a.very unpopular opinion here. My heart goes out to the family regardless.

    • @karenderose524
      @karenderose524 8 місяців тому +2

      I agree. Everything we’ve been told is she was a great student ect.. great relationship with family. Then all her grades drop, for no explained reason. She is at the age when this illness appears. Sad sad sad.

    • @Keeponsmiling60
      @Keeponsmiling60 8 місяців тому +1

      I totally agree. She diffently had some type of breakdown.

  • @karenhorton5412
    @karenhorton5412 8 місяців тому +4

    How is it that someone that apparently blacked out and now diagnosed with schizophrenia supposedly unaware of murdering her mother still managed to think of going outside to break the window in order to set the stage of a break and enter murder scenario, that she conveniently claimed took place, to the officers and family members?

  • @theoriginaleb9616
    @theoriginaleb9616 8 місяців тому +3

    Defense wasted their money on this doc. I bet the jury couldn’t maintain their attention during his testimony.

  • @mariondiscepola685
    @mariondiscepola685 8 місяців тому +4

    Umm umm umm..
    What the heck.

    • @donasutherland3708
      @donasutherland3708 8 місяців тому +1

      Ummm, He's driving, ummmm, me crazy ummm. Very poor speaker for a professional and having testified several times.

  • @Suzie-he9ni
    @Suzie-he9ni 8 місяців тому +9

    If she had mental issues her mom Brenda was educated to see it

  • @Jenahh-aye
    @Jenahh-aye 8 місяців тому +16

    Ok dr. olympic therapy..... during the attack she answered the phone , lied to the school pretending to be her victim in attempt to prevent them from calling police.... so it would seem she was not deteatched even during the murder. Maybe retirement?

  • @susanwhalls6230
    @susanwhalls6230 8 місяців тому +2

    It’s called no coping skills, that doesn’t make murder ok. She was so perfect, her feelings were hurt when she got kicked out & parents couldn’t fix it. Giving her the schizophrenia diagnosis is insulting to people who truly suffer mental illness.

  • @Susan-nf3qq
    @Susan-nf3qq 8 місяців тому +4

    I don't understand a parent "being best friend" ! Lots of friends but only one Mom/Dad .

  • @deniece0821
    @deniece0821 8 місяців тому +14

    For everyone blown away by this psychologist's testimony...bear in mind that expert witness testimony runs roughly $350-$500 PER HOUR in this part of the country. Given this guy's credentials and experience, he's most likely receiving the high end.
    What I find peculiar is the fact that he and I attended and received degrees from THE Ohio State University Dept of Psychology, yet we have polar opposite opinions. With that being said, I do not have the advanced degree nor the experience he has.
    Key takeaway? Many paid expert witnesses will generally testify to whatever you pay them to testify. Allegedly... In my opinion. I'm just saying...😉

  • @aprillucas-boyle222
    @aprillucas-boyle222 8 місяців тому +11

    One of the effects of early schizophrenia is academic decline. And often individuals have no idea what these symptoms are, and absolutely most never are aggressive or violent. Some are though. However, having a mental illness alone isn’t a defense, in Ohio there is not diminished capacity So insanity for medical criteria is different than insanity definition. for legal purposes.

  • @nataliecassidy4298
    @nataliecassidy4298 8 місяців тому +10

    There were a couple times that her lawyer asked the judge if she could be excused from the court room when they were showing graphic evidence and talking about graphic things so it would not traumatize her .That judge should have never let her leave the court room, she should have had to stay and listen and watch allthat was being put out .In the case in Idaho the LORI VALLOW DAYBELL case that she killed her two kids and many others she tried to leave the court room and Judge BOYCE said NO she had to stay and hear and see everything. Thats what this judge should have said. From AKRON, OHIO