Category: Maternal mental health
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Lindsay Clancy, Andrea Yates, and When “Mental Health Matters” Stops Mattering
Twenty years later, a new face to a new unthinkable tragedy, & we’re still warning about a precedent the Andrea Yates case never set. Is the slippery slope in the room with us? One argument I keep seeing about the Lindsay Clancy trial is that finding her not guilty by reason of insanity—or, more accurately…
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The Lindsay Clancy Trial Isn’t Just About One Mother. It’s About What America Doesn’t Understand About Severe Mental Illness.
The Lindsay Clancy trial isn’t just about one mother. It’s exposing how little most of us understand about psychosis, postpartum mental illness, and what psychiatric treatment actually looks like in America. As a clinician in the addiction field, I’ve watched families desperately seek a “higher level of care” only to discover that, too often, it…
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