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The Boston Globe • • health
Key Points:
- Lindsay Clancy was prescribed 13 psychiatric medications by multiple providers in the four months before the deaths of her three children, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedatives, and mood stabilizers.
- Clancy is on trial for first-degree murder and is mounting an insanity defense, claiming severe postpartum mental illness led her to kill her children and herself in January 2023.
- Her attorneys argue she was overprescribed medications and misdiagnosed, with multiple providers failing to coordinate care or recognize signs of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis.
- Prosecutors contend Clancy acted intentionally and rationally to kill her children and suggest she manipulated providers to obtain desired treatments.
- Experts note that some prescribed drugs, like SSRIs, can worsen bipolar disorder symptoms, and the critical postpartum period often lacks sufficient specialized mental health care.
