re: Why are so many women defending Lindsay Clancy?

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Two things can be true at once:

1. She is guilty and needs to be held accountable. Death penalty would be appropriate.

2. Post-partum issues need more attention and to be taken seriously.

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This. I'm not going to get into the issue of whether the husband did it since everything I've seen in a lot of Tik Tok sluthing and at the end of the day she (and her defense) has said she admits she did it.

There were definitely flaws in how the psychiatric professionals handled what she did report (and she didn't verbalize everything she was experiencing). Some of the big ones:

1. An issue in the field is people claiming specialization without being specialized. I don't know that any of the folks treating her had real specialization in post-partum.

2. Don't even get me started on the medications prescribed and how they went about that. It's a hot fricking mess.

3. Mother-baby treatment (in-patient) units are super uncommon and it sounds like the one they found wouldn't admit her because of the medication she was on (which is WILD to me). New mothers don't want to risk being separated from their kids.

4. She ended up treated by a bunch of Psychs who don't typically do your hour long, Psychotherapy sessions like a Master-level clinician. This has been a growing issue in the field where PsychNPs are available to prescribe but have started doing "15 minute" sessions for increased billing. It's not comprehensive enough therapy.

5. Working with some women who have had post-partum, you have to have training to work with that condition as it doesn't present like typical depression or anxiety.
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6. You also have to know when something is outside of your scope of practice and when to refer out. Period.

All of that said, lawyers are there to poke holes in order to build a defense for their client. It can be easy for folks who don't under the mental health system (or the limitations of that system) to point fingers at the mental health professionals.

They're also not mind-readers and it's not uncommon at all for people to under report suicidal symptoms or homicidal symptoms because they know they're going to get sent to an inpatient facility as a result.

It can also be difficult to do follow up with clients when they get admitted and I've personally experienced hospitals not honoring releases of information in a timely manner. I've had clients where they were hospitalized, they filled out a release for me to coordinate with their in-patient psych and to receive their notes/records, and I either never see it or it comes 6 months later.

Same reason why liberal white women are a cancer

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Haven't really kept up with the trial but was it really "hey husband go to the grocery store" or was it that he said he was going to the grocery store and she didn't stop him? That's a massive difference.

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She asked him to go pick up dinner and also go to CVS. She also used Apple Maps to plot the distance and calculate travel time to the restaurant and pharmacy she sent her husband.

100% premeditated.

I’m not gonna say there’s not a lot of fricked up men in this life, bc there definitely are. But there are also a lot of fricked up women

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Why are so many women defending Lindsay Clancy?

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Over the past few years, it’s really beginning to dawn on me that white women are fricking batshit insane.

She was lying to her therapist. She could have gone to the best facility and still they would have struggled medicating her correctly because she kept lying. She was convincing with her lies. She was a sociopath. She admits to murder. She should fry. End of story.

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But because I’m slow this Friday afternoon let’s discuss: I believe the flaw in your reasoning (correct me if I’m wrong) is that sympathy = justification. Which (at least for me personally) it is not.

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My argument is that sympathy must be gauged on the entirety of the situation. You cannot separate the person from the disorder from the act. You take it all into account and determine if the circumstances are worthy of sympathy

for instance, I can sympathize with the thousands of women that go through post-partum a year and suffer through it and and do not harm their children.

I cannot sympathize with the woman that goes through it and murders her chidlren while doing so. Just as I assume most would not sympathize with a severely depressed father murdering his children or his wife, it deserves no sympathy. Society rarely gives these people sympathy and I see no reason why the instance on this current case is an different

You can recognize the realities of mental illness without sympathizing with the perpetrator. You can feel sadness for the situation, you can view the situation as a social commentary on society and life, you can do that without sympathizing with the perpatrator

I feel like the term sympathy is being used very loosely by a lot of people

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HoustonChick86

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social media has truly fried you women's brains.

I agree with your point of view and if she did it, I agree that sympathy is likely the wrong choice of words on my part.

Touché Poo

There woman