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PLYMOUTH, Mass. \u2014 After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, her murder trial resumed Monday with diary entries from the months leading up to the killings in a coastal Massachusetts town in 2023.<\/p>\n

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Clancy described feeling anxious and overwhelmed with motherhood, including her struggles to get her newborn Callan to sleep and constant worries of his being sick. She also expressed concerns about going back to work as a labor and delivery nurse, not being able to breastfeed, and feeling disconnected from her children and her then-husband.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone that my mind is trying to find something physically wrong with me,\u201d she wrote in a Nov. 18, 2022, entry.<\/p>\n

Clancy\u2019s defense says she was a loving mother who was overmastered by postpartum psychosis, a dangerous psychiatric condition that afflicts a small proportion of women after childbirth and affects their hold on reality.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors contend that she acted intentionally and should be held criminally responsible for the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged in age from 8 months to 5 years.<\/p>\n

Clancy\u2019s lawyers don\u2019t dispute that she killed the children. But in the criminal trial and a medical malpractice lawsuit, her attorneys say the 35-year-old had bipolar disorder that wasn\u2019t fully diagnosed until after the killings.<\/p>\n

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Her attorneys say her condition seemed to worsen on an ever-shifting lineup of psychiatric prescriptions, some of them problematic for bipolar patients.<\/p>\n

Her diary sheds light on the mental health issues at the heart of the case<\/h2>\n

In the three months before the killings, various clinicians prescribed a range of antidepressants, sleep aids, an antipsychotic and other medications while she reported increasingly profound insomnia, anxiety, despair and confusion about what was real, according to her lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Both the prosecution and her defense attorney read pages from her journal Monday as she chronicled those difficult months.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want help. I want to be well,\u201d Clancy\u2019s attorney Kevin Reddington read from one journal entry.<\/p>\n

She also wrote of feeling \u201cincredibly sad and guilty\u201d about not breastfeeding and was \u201cobsessed\u201d with Callan\u2019s sleep and nap schedule.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have crazy brain fog. I feel like I can\u2019t make a plan,\u201d she wrote in another, undated entry. \u201cI live moment to moment waiting for the next nap time. I\u2019m terrified of Cal getting overtired now because I feel can\u2019t help him.\u201d<\/p>\n

In separate lawsuits, Lindsay and ex-husband Patrick Clancy allege that various providers failed her, and should have recognized she was a risk to herself and the children. The providers, at least those who have responded to date, deny the allegations and dispute that she clearly told them she intended to harm the kids.<\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy was seeking help before the killings<\/h2>\n

When she sought care at a postpartum depression program in late December 2022, providers noted that her symptoms might be due to medication, according to her lawsuit. It says those clinicians told her to taper off the antipsychotic drug and then discharged her after a day.<\/p>\n

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Clancy checked herself into a psychiatric hospital that New Year\u2019s Eve and spent several days there. Once home, she resumed appointments with her psychiatrist, who last saw her for 17 minutes on Jan. 23, 2023, according to her lawsuit.<\/p>\n

The next day, she believed a commanding voice was telling her to \u201ckill the children so you can kill yourself,\u201d according to her lawyers.<\/p>\n

That evening, she asked her then-husband to run some errands, a request that prosecutors cast as a ploy to get him out of the house.<\/p>\n

Father returns home to a shocking scene<\/h2>\n

Lindsay Clancy wept at the defense table last week as Patrick Clancy and other witnesses testified.<\/p>\n

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He told jurors about returning to a horrible scene at their house: a bloodied bedroom, an open window, his wife on the ground below it, the children in the basement, throttled with exercise bands.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe killed the kids!\u201d he told a 911 dispatcher on a call played in court.<\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy remains paralyzed from the waist down because of the fall.<\/p>\n

In the hospital two days later, when a forensic psychologist asked Clancy how she felt, she responded: \u201chorrified.\u201d She also asked if she had a lawyer and whether her body and legs were broken. She was intubated and could only communicate through written messages on a whiteboard, the psychologist testified.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe then asked, can she have visitors, and where her family is,\u201d Dr. Jhilam Biswas of Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital recalled.<\/p>\n

Doctors testified Monday that 8-month-old Callan was in cardiac arrest when he arrived at a hospital in nearby Plymouth. He needed a ventilator at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital to help him breathe, but did have a heartbeat. He died after three days.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors will try to keep the spotlight on Clancy<\/h2>\n

Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham sought in an opening statement last week to keep jurors\u2019 focus on the defendant, not her doctors.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is not a public debate about women\u2019s mental health and how the medical system treats women,\u201d Buckingham said.<\/p>\n

If convicted of murder, Lindsay Clancy faces life in prison without parole. If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.<\/p>\n

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988, or go to <\/em>988lifeline.org<\/em>, to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. You can also call the network, previously known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, at <\/em>800-273-8255<\/em>, or visit <\/em>SpeakingOfSuicide.com\/resources<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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