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“The mistake is treating Lindsay’s later accounts as a perfect account of what happened. Different accounts do not automatically mean she lied. Given her impaired memory, I’m skeptical of treating any later reconstruction as reliable without corroboration. The civil malpractice case has a very different question and…”
X · Mon Aug 31
“Yes. In Massachusetts, a man charged with rape can raise psychosis under the same legal standard as anyone else. “I was horny” isn’t psychosis, and a diagnosis doesn’t guarantee an insanity verdict. Calling postpartum psychosis a privilege is like calling preeclampsia a perk. It’s a potentially deadly complication…”
X · Wed Sep 02
“Not to disbelieve but can you say where it says that the hallucinations were 8 months? From what I am reading, the complaint dates the alleged hallucinations to after she began Seroquel on November 29, 2022. Paragraph 43 says she developed what she described as “intrusive thoughts,” which the lawsuit characterizes…”
X · Mon Aug 31
“I’m not sure “she was hearing voices and hid them from her doctor” is actually established. One of the weirdest inconsistencies throughout this case has been people treating intrusive thoughts and auditory hallucinations as interchangeable. They aren’t. At trial, Heilbrun specifically testified that the thoughts…”
X · Mon Aug 31
“Clancy’s defense is not “womanhood, hormones, anxiety and depression made her do it.” It is that she suffered from postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder, allegedly worsened by poorly managed medication, and therefore lacked criminal responsibility. That defense is available to men under the exact same legal…”
X · Wed Sep 02
“Sure, but I’m still not convinced it’s super relevant. Women withholding perinatal psychiatric symptoms is a well-recognized clinical problem. Research specifically finds that mothers often do not disclose intrusive thoughts because of shame, fear of hospitalization or fear of having their children taken away.…”
X · Mon Aug 31
“Testosterone corresponds to estrogen. So the equivalent would be a woman claiming, “My estrogen made me do it.” Nobody has made that defense. Clancy raised psychosis not hormone level. Postpartum psychosis has no single known cause. Hormonal shifts after birth may help trigger it alongside genetic or bipolar…”
X · Wed Sep 02