Patrick Clancy described Lindsay’s mental health struggles
Over two days of testimony, Patrick Clancy described Lindsay’s mental health leading up to their children’s murders.
He said that after the births of their first two children, Cora and Dawson, Lindsay experienced anxiety about going back to work and ‘had a really hard time being separated’ from their kids.
After the birth of their youngest son Callan, Lindsay started showing signs of anxiety in September 2022, about a month before she was supposed to return to work.
In September 2022, Patrick testified that Lindsay informed him she wanted to start taking Zoloft.
However, Patrick said, ‘She kept getting worse and worse,’ and had trouble sleeping.
In December 2022, Patrick said she started taking a new medication, and she began to spiral.
‘That was really where her big spiral started. She started to lose a lot of weight, and she became very depressed. She was having a really hard time,’ Patrick said.
He added that around that same time Lindsay told him she was starting to experience intrusive thoughts about harming herself and their children.
‘She described thoughts of hurting the kids or them having some sort of ailment,’ Patrick said.
Lindsay was hospitalized on December 31, 2022, for experiencing thoughts of suicide.
She killed the children 19 days after she was discharged.
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