Andrea Yates' long history of mental illness had an impact on what she did to her children, as well as an outside influence from Michael and Rachel Woroniecki. In 1993 Rusty and Andrea married and a year later they had their first child, a boy named Noah. They planned to have many children whatever God had planned for them. Their five children were all named after characters from the Bible. After the birth of her first child, Noah, Andrew began to have violent visions and felt that Satan was speaking to her. Andrea kept all her feelings to herself without realizing how much mental illness ran in her family because she and Rusty had biblically inspired notions about family and motherhood. Andrea tried to have a fourth child, but suffered a miscarriage. Not long after, she became pregnant and had her fourth child. Andrea began to suffer from severe depression after the birth of their fourth child. America has difficulty understanding how hormonal changes can cause hallucinations and violent thoughts. These women run the risk of committing suicide or harming their children thinking it is for the child's good. Despite doctors' warnings that having more children could cause psychosis, in late 2000 they had a fifth child, a little girl named Mary. Meanwhile Andrea survived two suicide attempts, had numerous episodes of psychotic hallucinations and took various medications. Andrea let out a big cry for help when she told a doctor that she was afraid she might harm someone. After the death of Andrea's father, to whom she was very close, she began to slip into a private world and no longer functioned. Andrea was entangled with depression, religious fanaticism and psychosis. He had five small children to take care of and tried to be… a middle of paper… icosi. In the years from 1994 to 2000 Andrea had five children and one miscarriage. She also breastfed causing an imbalance in her hormonal balance, never having time to restore balance. This had strong effects on his mental health. According to (Comer & J, 2011), the sociocultural model looks at the social and cultural forces that influence members of a society. One of the perspectives of this model, the family-social perspective, indicates three types of factors in its explanations of abnormal functioning: social labels and roles, social networks and supports, and the family system. Doctors from a family-social perspective can practice group, family or couple therapy or community treatment (p.62). In Andrea's treatment plan, group therapy, staying on Haldol, and having a strong support system may have helped her cope.