A person that could do something this horrible to four children in some distorted way in her psychotic episode probably believed she was helping them in some way. The woman in Texas said she was saving them from going to Hell. It sounds like a pathetic excuse but these are not rational minds at work here. They see things you don't see and hear things that you don't hear. A lot of the time, the family surrounding them does not even pick up on any strange things they may do. She had an 8-month-old baby. That tells me for up to 8 months (could be longer because post-partum depression can begin while the woman is still pregnant), this woman's mind had so warped her way of thinking, she was able to commit such a horrible act. She has had 8 or more months of internal torture. I have had psychological pain and physical pain and I will take the physical pain any day. At least they can treat it and help it immediately. That's not the case with a psychosis. It can take months or years of medications or different cocktails of medications to get that person to a functioning state of mind. Then once they are back in the reality we all share, they have to live with what they did and they suffer the rest of their lives for what they have done.