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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The idea that this woman is somehow overprivileged because she had that much inpatient psychiatric treatment is a sign of the very slippery slope this thread and our society are both on.

Jesus.[/quote]
Not necessarily that she was over privileged, but [b]there was ample time for her to receive a diagnosis os PPD/PPP.[/b] She displayed no concerning behaviors with her husband, which is why he felt secure leaving her home alone with the children. She has generalized anxiety disorder, I believe she’s lying about hearing a voice. I think PPP is a convenient excuse, if only all murderers could claim psychosis. It’s going to be very difficult, if not impossible to prove she was psychotic during the murders. Comparing this to the Andrea Yates’s case is apples and oranges, the only thing in common is both were mothers who killed their kids. That’s it. PPP is a real thing, but Lindsay Clancy wasn’t suffering from it imo. The med list was quite stunning and certainly led to some unpleasant drug interactions I am sure.[/quote]

This is just not how mental illness works. It is not a fixed state that persists over time such that any X number of people looking at that person over X interval would all have seen the same thing.

If she only had GAD, what was she doing on all of those medications, in your theory of the case?[/quote]
Hmmm, all those meds *could* be prescribed for GAD/depression/insomnia, I think the physicians began throwing anything at her because she kept claiming that nothing was working, which on Lindsay’s part, seems misinformed, uneducated and hasty at best and attention seeking and reeking of a personality disorder at worst. Maybe she was misdiagnosed, maybe she did have PPP but if she lied to physicians or if she hid/masked symptoms, which she must have, because there is no documentation of her having psychosis, that’s on her, the physicians aren’t mind readers. Mental healthcare can only provide as much as you allow it, meaning one must be completely honest and open with their true feelings to receive an accurate diagnosis.[/quote]

That is not how psychiatric medication works. It’s an iterative process. Any responsible mental health provider, on hearing that that none of that array of benzodiazepines, specifically, was not working for anxiety or sleep, would be stopping to reconsider the diagnosis, not just adding Seroquel and hoping for the best. I think she got a half-assed eval and she probably hid some stuff and they assumed that because she is a health care provider, she was a reliable reporter.[/quote]

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