@thetimes: Last week as I watched people I know discuss the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a former maternity nurse from Massachusetts who killed her three children while suffering postpartum psychosis, I grew increasingly angry. Clancy, whose trial is nearing its end after much harrowing testimony about how unwell she was when she strangled Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, was clearly suffering. But smart people, mainly men, were on social media claiming that the “depression” that mothers suffer after childbirth was not hormonal but due to the difficulty they have subordinating their own needs. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, by my Sicilian mum and Persian dad, mental health was taboo, so I heard only whispers about what happened to my mum, who was ripped out of my life when I was two years old. Mum was 24 when she had me in 1986, her only child. She worked at a law firm and, according to my dad, she had a brilliant pregnancy; she was calm, I arrived on time and there were no complications. One of my earliest memories is of my mum running down a hill after my dad. I was about one or two years old, trying to follow her, crawling and crying. As I got older I would overhear my extended family whisper about how all the kitchen cupboards in the house where I was born were slashed from where Mum had hurled knives at Dad. Dad does not remember ever hearing the terms “postnatal depression” or “postnatal psychosis”, but my maternal grandmother told him that her sister — my mother’s aunt — had become extremely depressed and went through the same kind of behavioural change after childbirth. For most of my life, I was ashamed of my mum’s story and felt responsible for ruining her life, so I hid it. But I’ve been shocked at the number of friends who’ve responded to my fundraising emails with: “My wife had this, I felt so powerless, I didn’t know what to do.” #postpartum #clancy #lindsayclancycase #usnews #MentalHealth

Slickydicky :

Yo delete this?

amarelo :

allegedly... not also they couldn't prove it without reasonable doubt but the proof indicate another suspect..

DaRok :

I don’t know why. In England and Wales, the infanticide act applies Offence of infanticide. (1)Where a woman by any wilful act or omission causes the death of her child being a child under the age of twelve months, but at the time of the act or omission the balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child, then, [F1if] the circumstances were such that but for this Act the offence would have amounted to murder [F2or manslaughter], she shall be guilty of felony, to wit of infanticide, and may for such offence be dealt with and punished as if she had been guilty of the offence of manslaughter of the child. (2)Where upon the trial of a woman for the murder [F3or manslaughter] of her child, being a child under the age of twelve months, the jury are of opinion that she by any wilful act or omission caused its death, but that at the time of the act or omission the balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child, then the jury may, the circumstances were such that but for the provisions of this Act they might have returned a verdict of murder or manslaughter], return in lieu thereof a verdict of infanticide. (3)Nothing in this Act shall affect the power of the jury upon an indictment for the murder of a child to return a verdict of manslaughter, or a verdict of guilty but insane, .

Sir FAD :

I really hope this message reaches the people it needs to

Snickerdoodle :

I think alot of us know someone affected by this.. for me it was my best friends mom 🥺

Captain Levi :

Frasier_Goldengirls :

PPD is real, but its challenges in diagnosing, support & treatment are not on trial. What is on trial is whether Clansy was aware of her actions. Let’s analyze: Asks husband to go to the store & she then takes her children’s lives, as per the instructions, allegedly, of an internal voice. There seems to be some control & order with her children, but then appears to turn chaotic when the voice allegedly instructs its her turn. I’ve never heard of a suicidal person that uses 2 methods in less than 30 minutes bc the first one didn’t work. Well, neither did the second one. And she’s a nurse, who should know how to cut. The voice didn’t suggest taking her medication? Yet, she accomplished the task the voice commanded in regards to her children but fails with herself? Ed Gein allegedly suffered from schizophrenia & is reported he might have experienced a psychotic episode(s) for the lives he took & no one treated him like a rock star. Clansy had more resources and support than so many other women going through the same condition, including Andrea Yates, who in the moment, was labeled a “monster” by everyone. Coincidentally, that is the same name Gein is referred by. Why not Clansy too?

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Maria_Stanilova :

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