Why Lindsay Clancy's Warning Never Changed Her Treatment

A psychiatric nurse practitioner named the condition out loud in 2022. Rebecca Jollotta testified she told Lindsay Clancy and her husband that Clancy might have an underlying bipolar disorder, and she prescribed an antipsychotic used to treat it. The antidepressants were not stopped.

Three first-degree murder counts, three not guilty pleas. All three died at the family home on January 24, 2023. Reddington has argued postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder leave her not criminally responsible. Prosecutors say she moved deliberately and understood the consequences.

Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott close the three-part series on the diagnosis itself.

What pushed Jollotta toward bipolar disorder was partly Clancy's report of going forty-eight hours without sleep after starting an antidepressant. Dr. Jennifer Tufts testified she considered the same diagnosis in December 2022 and dismissed it on the absence of mania, describing the criteria as euphoria, very high energy, and grandiosity.

At McLean, staff testified they observed symptoms that could indicate bipolar disorder and discussed sleep deprivation leading to a hypomanic episode. She rejected that conclusion. She left with paperwork reading major depressive disorder, severe, without psychotic features.

On antidepressants and bipolar patients, the research does not agree with itself, and Shavaun says so. Jurors heard a toxicology witness describe low drug levels.

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At McLean, Goodheart testified sleep deprivation can contribute to a manic episode and that she wanted to keep observing Clancy's sleep after discharge. Jollotta also testified Clancy's thinking stayed linear and goal-directed at every appointment, and that Clancy never indicated a plan to harm anyone. Shavaun explains why linear thinking and serious illness are not opposites.

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