Eren Orbey on Patrick Clancy navigating life after his wife, Lindsay, killed their children during a postpartum mental-health crisis.
Cora was five, Dawson was three, and Callan was eight months old. Pat loves to talk about them and dreads having to explain what happened. On January 24, 2023, he stepped out of the house in Duxbury to pick up children’s medicine and a takeout dinner order. When he returned, less than an hour later, Lindsay lay semiconscious in the back yard, having cut her neck and wrists and thrown herself from their bedroom window. She’d left the children strangled in the basement.
Such reasoning often derives from depression rather than psychosis, though some clinicians are reluctant to draw a categorical distinction. Sara West, a forensic psychiatrist who has evaluated more than a dozen women accused of killing their children, told me that severe depression tends to involve “an element of distorted reality.” She added, “It’s not always technically psychosis, but it’s also not not psychosis.
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