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Lindsay Clancy’s defense argues she killed her three kids because of postpartum psychosis. But armchair detectives, including many fed-up mothers, are laying blame with her ex-husband. www.wired.com/story/the-pa...

wired.comThe Patrick Clancy Conspiracy Theories Are Rooted in the Harsh Realities of MotherhoodLindsay Clancy’s defense argues she killed her three kids because of postpartum psychosis. But armchair detectives, including many fed-up mothers, are laying blame with her ex-husband.

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As someone who had postpartum depression, the system failed her and her husband failed her. Her husband seemed like he didn't really care even when she asked for help, and her therapist should have been more proactive, or at least asked for help from a more experienced dr.

I don’t know much about the case and I certainly don’t know much about post partum. And I’m not arguing here, just trying to understand this from a woman’s perspective… She killed her 3 children. Not herself. Those deaths were preventable if someone had intervened? What are your thoughts? Thanks

I don't think the system failed her, I think her husband was def less than ideally supportive. She shopped for Atavan, didn't listen to the Proffesionals about meds and therapy to treat the cause of her issues and at one point she didn't want meds. She spun herself into psychosis.

Unfortunately women are always the sole caregivers for children, and if anyone wants to see how horrifying it is for them, just read any post in "I regret having children" on FB. More than a few women are stressed beyond endurance and men don't sometimes seem to care or understand.

Raising children is so hard, sometimes you just strangle them to death, and people will march to keep you out of prison. My mother would have loved to have known this when I was a toddler, but fortunately she decided not to murder her own children and jump out of the window when caught.

This seems to have some parallels to the Michelle Carter case, which also involved serious psychiatric illness, a dysfunctional relationship and sorry state of the mental health profession.