This narrative is provably bullshit. Lindsay Clancy barely even took her meds; she's a lizard-brained psychopath who was trying to lay the groundwork for an insanity plea. Her hospital shifts ought to be checked for suspicious deaths, too - no way the kids were her first victims.
“I wasn’t married to a monster—I was married to someone who got sick.”
Patrick said he called more than a dozen therapists but could not find anyone with immediate availability. So they continued with psychiatry.
Patrick said Tufts’s appointments felt like, “What are your symptoms? Take these pills.”
He described Jollotta’s approach similarly: “It just sounded like she was throwing things at the wall and waiting for us to say yes.”
Clinicians at Women & Infants later hesitated to alter Lindsay’s treatment because her prescription history made it difficult to determine whether her symptoms reflected an underlying disorder or adverse drug effects.
Lindsay entered treatment anxious, exhausted and unable to sleep. She had no history of psychosis or mania. Psychiatry cycled her through drug after drug. She got worse. That deterioration was interpreted as underlying illness and used to justify more medication.
The people closest to Lindsay saw this unfold. On December 5, seven weeks before the killings, Patrick joined an appointment and reported that her anxiety had become “significantly worse since starting the psychiatric medications.” Lindsay told her mother that medication was “destroying her mind” and that she no longer felt like herself.
Eventually, nobody could tell where the “illness” ended and the effects of treatment began.
But there was no illness to begin with.