Lindsay Clancy's Doctors Had the Answer and Did Nothing

Lindsay Clancy was a nurse who delivered other people's babies. She'd been inside a psychiatric facility less than three weeks before she killed her own three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023. Both the prosecution and her defense at Plymouth Superior Court agree she was mentally ill when it happened. What the jury must decide is whether she was too ill to understand what she was doing.

Postpartum psychosis is rare, affecting roughly one or two mothers per thousand births. Doctors say the name is misleading because the condition is closer to a mood disorder than what most people imagine when they hear the word psychosis. A mother in its grip can look fine to everyone around her. The biggest risk factors, including bipolar history, are well established in the medical literature.

The cruelest part of the evidence: caught early, this illness is treatable and temporary. Weeks of treatment can end the acute danger. Yet suicide and overdose among new mothers now account for nearly a quarter of all pregnancy-related deaths in America. The CDC says more than eight in ten were preventable. Roughly four out of five American mothers leave a hospital after delivery without ever being screened for depression.

The same courtroom fight played out twenty years ago when Andrea Yates drowned her five children. The same forensic psychiatrist, Phillip Resnick, testified for the defense in both cases. Survivor Meghan Cliffel lived through postpartum psychosis in 2015 and says the attention only arrives after a tragedy.

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