postpartum psychosis

The defense's story is that the medical system failed Lindsay Clancy.

Her doctors missed bipolar disorder with postpartum psychosis, loaded her up on medications that made things worse, and ultimately triggered a psychotic break.

The Lindsay Clancy case has sparked national debate about motherhood, postpartum depression, and mental health care treatment.

But this case was never a whodunit.

Patrick Clancy's testimony is key to understanding the events before, during, and after the killings.

But ultimately, this is a case about psychiatric evidence, and Patrick Clancy isn't a doctor.

But before we get into the psychiatric evidence, we need to talk about what postpartum psychosis actually is.

because it's different from what most people mean when they talk about postpartum depression.

paralyzed in a wheelchair.

The defense argues that Lindsay was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

We will get into that.

And that she wasn't receiving the help she needed.

In conclusion, Lindsay Clancy admitted she did it.

There's no evidence her husband did it.

She was never diagnosed with postpartum psychosis.

She had plenty of resources.

Absolutely.

But the most severe manifestation, the one that solves the mystery of patient E in Medlock Holmes' conservatory, the one that requires immediate emergency psychiatric care, is postpartum psychosis, or PPP.

PPP is an acute severe affective psychosis.

It is rare, affecting about 0.1% to 0.2% of postpartum women, which translates to roughly 1 to 2 in 1,000 births.

It typically presents very rapidly within the first few days to weeks after delivery.

Which is why collateral information from family members is absolutely imperative.

The physician might only see the lucid window during a brief assessment.

Now, the text makes a very firm distinction between PPP, which is classified as an affective psychosis and is very often the first presentation of underlying bipolar disorder, and non-affective psychosis in the postpartum period, such as a relapse of pre-existing schizophrenia.

It's really f- fucking upsetting.

And basically, the, the general defense, like, thesis is that Lindsay Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

Her husband has been like, "Please don't come after Lindsay.

Please don't charge her.

...

this, like, very, very, like, actually common.

Postpartum psychosis is not very common, but postpartum as a concept is extremely, like, very common among recent mothers.

We're so much less willing to believe this, like, systemic issue, as per fucking usual, than the idea that, like-

And then talk me through since that time then have you you've carried on antipsychotics and antidepressants?

Yeah yeah so I was on the antipsychotics I'm still on the antidepressants today I was on the antipsychotics after the postpartum psychosis for about probably about two years and then I really wanted to come off of them because the side effects that I've had like is the I gained four stone and you gained four stone yeah which is

very common actually with with the antipsychotics yeah and

like because I just didn't feel full and I just kept on eating and I think because I was so depressed as well And they

And there was a mum that had been there for almost a year.

I think she was there over a year in the end.

They tried everything with her postpartum psychosis and nothing was working.

And then after coming, going back in, like throughout that time, I then since spoken to you and I went back in and I was thinking, why? I wonder whether they've actually talked about hormones.

The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial sat down with Kaylee McInerney on Fox News and told his side of the story.

So he was the only juror who didn't wanna find her not criminally responsible for killing her three children due to postpartum psychosis.

The judge declared a mistrial, and then he was accused by the other jurors of not following the judge's instructions on reasonable doubt.

Here's what he had to say about that.

Not criminally responsible-

Yeah, yeah

... because of the postpartum psychosis.

Yeah.