The mental health system is on trial with Lindsay Clancy

Lindsay Clancy is on trial for strangling her three children, but her lawyers are putting the mental health system on trail. Clancy had three psychiatrists prescribing medicine at the same time. She had twenty prescriptions simultaneously. One of the prescribers had never had a postpartum psychosis client. Another did not know Clancy had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. All the prescribers could have looked at Clancy’s records and they didn’t. Mere mortals are unable to challenge the mental health system. Clancy is an experienced nurse and she kept incredible records of her own treatment — qualitative and quantitative. Her records are more thorough than the doctors’, which is why she can challenge institutional mental health providers. Husbands, take notice. Every trial about postpartum psychosis has a spouse who was oblivious to how serious his wife’s condition was, and he left the mother alone with the kids. Andrea Yates’s husband left her alone with the five kids for an hour…