Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband Patrick Clancy described her mental health struggles in court
Across two days on the witness stand, Patrick Clancy gave a detailed account of Lindsay Clancy’s mental health struggles in the months before their children were killed.
Patrick testified that after the births of their older children, Cora and Dawson, Lindsay dealt with anxiety tied to returning to work and, in his words, “had a really hard time being separated” from the children.
Following the birth of their youngest child, Callan, Patrick said Lindsay began showing renewed signs of anxiety in September 2022, roughly one month before she was expected to go back to work.
That same month, Patrick told the court, Lindsay said she wanted to begin taking Zoloft as she tried to manage her worsening anxiety.
But according to Patrick, the medication did not appear to bring relief. “She kept getting worse and worse,” he said, adding that she was also struggling with sleep.
By December 2022, Patrick said Lindsay had started a different medication, and he described that period as the beginning of a deeper decline.
“That was really where her big spiral started. She started to lose a lot of weight, and she became very depressed. She was having a really hard time,” Patrick testified.
Patrick also said that, around the same time, Lindsay told him she was having intrusive thoughts about hurting herself and their children.
‘She described thoughts of hurting the kids or them having some sort of ailment,’ Patrick said.
Lindsay was hospitalized on December 31, 2022, for experiencing thoughts of suicide.
She killed the children 19 days after she was discharged.
