Mass. mom Lindsay Clancy researched ‘ways to kill’ before allegedly murdering 3 kids: reports
The revolving door of medical practitioners who treated Lindsay Clancy while she suffered from postpartum psychosis failed to diagnose her with bipolar disorder , ultimately leading to her psychotic break where she allegedlyClancy, 35, allegedly fatally strangled her young children – Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan – with an exercise band at their Massachusetts home in January 2023 after months-long treatment for various postpartum ailments, including severe insomnia and depression.
In a lawsuit filed on Jan. 23, Clancy alleges that the “polypharmacy” of people and organizations tending to her all failed to properly diagnose her with “bipolar disorder with postpartum onset” and wound up “ her condition and precipitated a severe psychotic break.”Lindsay Clancy, 35, was suffering from bipolar disorder when she fatally strangled her three children during a “severe psychotic break” in January 2023, a lawsuit alleges.details low-grade anxiety Clancy experienced after having her first and second children that were alleviated by special attention to self-care Just one week after having their third child, Clancy became obsessed with maintaining a “beach body” and fell into an intense workout routine. In early July, just five weeks after giving birth, she ran a five-mile race, according to the lawsuit. Jet crashes upside-down at Bangor airport, killing all six aboard — with chilling message heard in final momentInside O.J. Simpson's daughter's no-frills life after fleeing haunting LA past Her sister said that Clancy was “unlike her usual sensible self” and became sucked into a “multi-level marketing scheme” for exercise products, which she tried to pass off to her friends and family, the lawsuit said. By the end of the summer, Clancy’s mood “suddenly switched to anxiety and depression,” and living her daily life became a “chore.”Clancy was prescribed on and off between October and December 2022 included Zoloft, trazodone, Prozac, Ambien, Remeron, Klonopin, Seroquel, Ativan, Valium, and Lamictal, according to Patrick and Clancy’s respective lawsuits.After months of trying to receive help from the defendants named in the lawsuit — the South Shore Health System, Aster Mental Health Inc., the Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Dr. Jennifer Tufts and nurse Rebecca Jollotta — a defeated Clancy started to wonder if she was a “psychopath.” Just four days before she allegedly killed her children, Clancy tried to research possible cures for psychopaths, the lawsuit said. Clancy was overwhelmed by a “force” the day she allegedly killed her kids — one that had the same aggressive, antagonistic male voice she claimed to have hallucinated since she was prescribed Seroquel, according to the lawsuit. She whispered “Go to God, baby” to her children while they died before throwing herself out their home’s second-story window, according to the lawsuit.A doctor officially diagnosed Clancy with severe bipolar disorder in September 2024, the lawsuit said. Antidepressants typically increase hypomanic symptoms and mood instabilities for people with bipolar disorder. Clancy is seeking an unspecified amount of money in damages for her medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, emotional distress, permanent disability, the loss of her family’s companionship, and the devastation of her marriage.She has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation, and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Jet crashes upside-down at Bangor airport, killing all six aboard -- with chilling message heard in final momentFirst victim in deadly Maine plane crash ID'd as attorney wife of prominent Texas law firm founderBill Maher Goes Scorched Earth on Zohran Mamdani During ‘Real Time’: “He’s a Straight-Up Communist”Lindsay Clancy, 35, was suffering from bipolar disorder when she fatally strangled her three children during a"severe psychotic break" in January 2023, a lawsuit alleges.'Violated' Taylor Swift fuming over release of private texts as she's dragged into Blake Lively's legal drama: report
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