Media Cannot Distinguish between Mental Illness and Overmedication

The good news is that Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial in Massachusetts is attracting national attention. She is charged with three counts of first degree murder for killing her three young children on January 24, 2023. She has pleaded not guilty.

Her defense will show that Lindsay was suffering from gross overmedication, and thus she should be acquitted because she had been “involuntarily intoxicated” by the broad cocktail of psychiatric medications she had recently been prescribed.

The bad news is that the media covering the trial is misrepresenting the importance of this landmark case and is too often blaming postpartum psychosis, a mental illness, as the cause of the homicide, not her sanity-robbing overmedication.

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