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"That Could Have Been Me" - Postpartum Psychosis Survivor On Clancy

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Two weeks into the Lindsay Clancy trial, with the chat filling up with people saying a woman who looks that normal in a science-museum video couldn't have been psychotic, Teresa Toomey - an attorney, author of Understanding Postpartum Psychosis: A Temporary Madness, and a survivor of the illness herself - answers with two words: "I did too." She walks through her own 1998 case in unflinching detail: the intrusive thoughts that came only when she passed the stairs, the single delusional one that felt categorically different, a party she could hear in a room she knew for certain did not exist, and the paranoid conviction that her husband was going to have her committed to take custody of their daughter. And she explains the piece that speaks directly to Clancy's defense - why she never told anyone, including the moment she worked out as a trained lawyer that seeking help would later be used to prove she'd planned it, and why she believes that whatever the jury does, Clancy is already living in a hell that no sentence can add to.

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14 Comments

@anng.4542 8 days ago

Very brave of Teresa to talk about her experiences.

@IndiNana-x4o-f4y 8 days ago

Cora was clearly a Daddy's girl. Dawson was a strong willed second child (as they often are) that she had frustrations dealing with, and Callen "wasn't meeting his milestones" at 8 month. Eight months!!?? She was a perfectionist that couldn't meet her own standards. She focused on HERSELF, as proven through her diary and social media posts.

@darcy2965 4 days ago

Joel thank you again for this guest . The trial etc missed this kind of real info. So important. The majority don't have any idea about mental illness. Until they or someone they know goes inside it.

@2bfree785 8 days ago

Patrick does nothing at the museum! Shes doing everything. Ridiculous,she was overwhelmed for sure. He even said she did everything. I guess he new wife will see if he's such an amazing father and husband. I heard him talk at the church saying he brought the kids to church alone sometimes and it took all his energy. Everything negative about the kids. He hardly had them. Bizzare. I dont know what happened that day but i dont believe the perfect family bull.

@Snuflizard 7 days ago

She is as guilty as they come. Her lawyer is out of his mind he is making it so no one will want to be on a jury.

@triggsnasty6066 7 days ago

She was evaluated by two outpatient providers, an inpatient provider and a intensive outpatient program provider. How many other types of evaluation does she need? She was not diagnosed with psychosis. Period. And once again, with this woman’s story, I don’t know her and god bless her. She had hesitations anout wanting the baby and then when she had the baby she was thinking about the difference between throwing her down the stairs and falling down the stairs so it looks like an accident? Girl you weren’t psychotic either! Guys we cannot normalize this. Let’s just not interview women who want to be interviewed just for the hel of it. You did want to harm her. And there are women that should not be mothers at all. And that’s okay. But don’t hit us with this bullsht. Motherhood is the only decision as society we’re told you can’t change, and it’s on these biological mothers to say I can’t or don’t want to do this. All I hear is “me me me me me” she didn’t tell her husband bc she was afraid of being judged and that’s pathetic. Grow up you have the biggest responsibility of your life in your hands.

@ganpatibappa8753 8 days ago (edited)

Joel - your guest is so out of knowledge. She is clearly not qualified to detect Psycosis, and tell her NO EXPERT said Lindsay had psycosis.

@aprilfrye2101 7 days ago

Why the reposts?!?!?

@catharineduplessis5273 8 days ago

Every child these days are labeled as hyperactive. In the same way, every pregnant woman claims PPD. I cannot believe it. It is such an easy excuse. Women should get a grip on themselves and cope with life and steer away from the desire to be 'sick' to get attention.

@monikakudelska203 8 days ago

No that don't Patrick wos very far from his wife

@supernova743 8 days ago

Lindsey didnt like raising kids. She enjoyed the attention she got while pregnant and suffered depression every time she had the kid as the attention mostly disappeared and the baby became a burden. She put on an act of a loving parent when it suited her but behind closed doors she showed her distaste for the parenting part and the kids in general. Its sad that it took people too long to realize that she was a danger to her kids.