What to Know About Postpartum Psychosis, Which Can Affect a New Mom's Sense of Reality
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Renewed attention on postpartum depression highlights differences from postpartum psychosis
With a jury hung and Americans divided over the Lindsay Clancy trial, the conversation surrounding postnatal health is now at the forefront. ABC7 spoke with Chicago-area medical experts.
(New York = Yonhap News) Correspondent Lim Soo-jung = A case in the United States where a mother in her 30s suffering from postpartum psychosis killed her three children...
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What to know about postpartum psychosis, which can affect a new mom's sense of reality
A key question in the Massachusetts murder trial of Lindsay Clancy was whether postpartum psychosis drove her to kill her three children.
The trial of an American woman who killed her three children has led to talk about this ailment, which requires urgent intervention.One in five women suffers from perinatal depression.
The case of Lindsay Clancy, accused of killing her three children in the United States, has focused one of the most serious and not always well-diagnosed mental illnesses, postpartum psychosis, a high-risk “psychiatry emergency” for the baby and the mother. Clancy does not deny having strangled her children (5 and 3 years and 8 months) in her Duxbury (Massachusetts) home in 2023, but at the trial she pleaded not guilty by claiming that she suffe…
Her attorneys claim she suffered from postpartum psychosis and other serious mental health issues. However, prosecutors argue that Lindsay Clancy knew what she was doing—she even planned to get her husband out of the house during the murder. "The conflicting evidence makes this case particularly difficult for jurors," Gary Galperin, former Manhattan district attorney, told Newsweek.
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