The ongoing murder trial of Lindsay Clancy has garnered attention to the psychiatric medications she was prescribed in the months before the deaths of her three children in January 2023.
Medication timeline before the January 2023 incident
Testimony from Clancy’s treating psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse practitioner and medical records presented in court detailed frequent medication changes as doctors attempted to treat her severe insomnia, anxiety and depression. The defense argues the treatment failed to identify bipolar disorder with postpartum psychosis, while prosecutors maintain Clancy intentionally killed her children. During the hearing on Tuesday, Rebecca Jollotta, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at South Shore Health Perinatal Behavior Health Program, testified that she frequently communicated with Clancy via a patient portal in late November and early December of 2022. Medical records and a medication timeline compiled from court proceedings, Clancy was prescribed or advised to take several medications between October 2022 and January 2023, according to testimony. On January 24, woke up severely depressed with suicidal thoughts and later that afternoon killed her three children, Cora, Dawson and Callan, before she tried to kill herself by jumping out of her bedroom window.
Background and Possible Cause
Dr. She began taking it in mid-October. Four days later, nurse practitioner Julie Paul prescribed Prozac.
Clancy sought psychiatric care in September 2022 after experiencing severe postpartum depression and anxiety, according to the filed lawsuit. Because she was breastfeeding, jennifer Tufts prescribed Zoloft , but Clancy reportedly delayed taking it. Because it reportedly worsened her insomnia, court records state Clancy stopped taking Prozac after four days.
