On December 2nd, Lindsay Clancy sent Rebecca Jollotta a message stating;
“I’m willing to try anything. I just keep coming back to the feeling that I’m dependent on the Ativan after my 2 & ½ weeks of taking it daily with benadryl following the bad reaction to zoloft. I feel addicted to it & I feel like I’m not being heard that that is a possibility. I feel like we are throwing all these different medications at my insomnia when the root cause is out of dependence. I dont feel any of the anxious thoughts I had before. I feel completely numb."
I wish Kevin Reddington had built a visual timeline really showing every one of Lindsay Clancy’s appointments and medication changes. When you line all that medical history up together, it’s truly heartbreaking. And she was 100% right that she was not being heard.
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At least 7 of the 13 psychiatric medications prescribed to Lindsay Clancy have FDA labeling specifically documenting hallucinations as an adverse reaction or recognized drug effect, while additional medications can produce hallucinations in serious reactions such as serotonin syndrome or withdrawal.
🚨 please learn what you’re putting in your body! The human brain 🧠 can only take so much. 🙏
💊 Ambien (zolpidem) — visual & auditory hallucinations are explicitly reported; <1% of adults in controlled insomnia trials. I personally took this to sleep for yrs with no issues until one day I did hallucinate, (saw & heard a man begging me for coffee and never took it again).
💊 Ativan (lorazepam) — hallucinations are explicitly listed among reactions.
💊 Klonopin (clonazepam) — hallucinations are explicitly listed among observed reactions. This med can also make many people very angry.
💊 Valium (diazepam) — hallucinations are recognized in the labeling, including in severe CNS/withdrawal-related states.
💊 Buspirone — hallucinations are listed as an infrequent CNS adverse event; psychosis is listed as rare. But possible.
💊 Trazodone — hallucinations/delusions have been reported in its data & postmarketing experience.
💊 Amitriptyline — hallucinations are explicitly listed alongside delusions, confusional states, and disorientation.
💊 Sertraline (Zoloft) — hallucinations appear in FDA labeling primarily in connection with serious reactions such as serotonin syndrome/severe hyponatremia, rather than as an ordinary standalone adverse effect.
So if someone were taking multiple drugs capable of producing hallucinations, confusion, abnormal behavior, disinhibition, sedation, mania/hypomania, or altered cognition, clinicians & prescribers should be doing substantially more than simply issuing each prescription independently.
Doctors should be communicating & carefully coordinating with each other at ALL times. 😞
Everyone’s reaction to medications will vary. It depends on your body weight, your age, genetics and metabolism, your liver/kidney function, food intake, hydration, sleep, hormones, other medications or supplements, alcohol/substances, underlying conditions, dose, timing, duration of use, and how quickly a medication is started, increased, decreased, or stopped. So much!!
And with multiple medications, - one drug can alter or amplify another drug’s effects!!
That’s why prescribers shouldn’t rely on just whether a reaction is statistically “rare” they have to monitor what is actually happening to that exact patient, especially after medication changes.
A rare effect is still a recognized effect. When a patient reports a dramatic NEW psychiatric symptom, you INVESTIGATE IT.
You don’t prescribe medication after medication and then act shocked that determining what caused what becomes complicated.
We need MORE vigilance, MORE coordination, and MORE follow up not less.
These aren’t pills on a chart.
THERE IS A HUMAN BRAIN ON THE OTHER END OF EVERY PRESCRIPTION. 🧠
@MrsKathyC Estoy sorprendida que las consultas con psiquiatras en Estados Unidos sean tan cortas 👀
Aqui en México serían las de consulta general las que duran poco, con cualquier especialista ahí sí duran lo que tenga que durar
@ojosdeneth Que opinas sobre que supuestamente estan organizando cantar "Color esperanza" para el próximo partido? 👀
Y si decimos que fue idea de Carlos, para que luego lo hagan renunciar y el finalmente firme en otro equipo?
We are in an absolute crisis and critical thinking really needs to start trending. I have sat in prison cells with women who have killed all of their children during PPD psychosis. Back in the day, I had no mercy when it came to giving a baby case the blues. Then I grew up. I stopped hating women and stopped projecting my mommy issues on to every woman I had to spend time with. Then I learned more about post partum depression. But the most important skill I have that relates to the Clancy case is being able to recognize a man who hates his wife and has wanted to be with someone else for a long time.
I do not condone murder of any kind, especially that of children. I also do not condone anything but innocent until proven guilty and I have not heard or seen anything that would allow me to believe beyond the shadow of a doubt that Lyndsey not only killed her beautiful children, but she tried to overdose herself on pills that she smashed, crushed her own thyroid, slit her own throat and wrists, threw herself out of a second story window AND confessed to committing the crimes to her ex husband with all the afore mentioned injuries. The law enforcement officers that were the first responders on the scene said she was unable to talk and one said she was unconscious. Patrick is already married to Dr. Rachel Danis, who he’d been dating for years before this tragedy. I’m just throwing that out there.
I am not saying Lyndsey is innocent. I’m just saying it would be in the benefit of modern society for people to read more than headlines and watch more than 1 tiktok video about a heinous crime.
The Lindsay Clancy Case...
Who’s the Bad Guy?
Over the last two weeks, the Lindsay Clancy case has erupted into a culture war.
I use that term because the debate is increasingly moving away from the facts of the case and toward one question:
Who should be held accountable?
There is a very strong argument that antidepressants induced the psychosis that led Lindsay to kill her children. Both defense and prosecution experts recognized a bipolar diagnosis. Her medical records documented worsening insomnia and mood shortly after SSRI exposure. She repeatedly texted family members that the drugs were damaging her brain. In the week before she killed her children, she was even frantically Googling whether psychiatric drugs could damage her brain.
What seems to bother many people on the right is that, if Lindsay is found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, there may be no obvious “bad guy” who goes to prison.
Three beautiful children are dead. Morally, that feels intolerable. So the reasoning becomes: someone must pay, and therefore Lindsay MUST be convicted.
I strongly disagree.
But there is a bad guy here.
The problem is that the bad guy is not one person.
It is 30 years of poor mental health leadership in the United States.
It is 30 years of doctors failing to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry’s message that mental health problems are best treated with handfuls of drugs during 20-minute, transactional visits.
For years, medical leaders allowed drug companies to sell doctors and patients the idea that depression was a serotonin imbalance that needed to be corrected with medication. That helped normalize massive antidepressant use while non-drug approaches were pushed to the side.
They also taught doctors to downplay serious drug side effects.
Dr. Jennifer Tuff’s notes reportedly described Lindsay as lacking “insight” because Lindsay believed the medications were making her worse, rather than accepting that her symptoms were simply caused by depression.
Is it any wonder, then, that her antidepressant doses continued to be increased until she became completely psychotic, despite already having two bad reactions to SSRIs in October?
In my view, this was a catastrophic failure of care.
I hate the fact that three children are dead. And I absolutely believe there should be accountability.
But convicting Lindsay of murder, if the drugs drove her into psychosis, does not fix the problem.
That is what accountability is also about: creating a deterrent against future bad behavior.
Throwing Lindsay Clancy in prison for murder is not going to prevent the next drug-induced homicide.
But turning our attention to rampant overprescribing and the minimization of these drug risks might.
Holding medical leaders accountable for doing an abysmal job of teaching doctors how to safely treat mental health conditions might.
If we really want to prevent the next tragedy, that is where the focus needs to be.
@_Gabo_N Y ojala que médicos especialistas (con bastante experiencia) como psiquiatras, endocrinólogos, ginecólogos, etc, dieran mas proyección a los problemas de salud que se lleva en el embarazo y en el posparto
Que las mujeres no teman en ser señaladas por estar mal, que es normal
@_Gabo_N No es apoyar, sino simplemente comprender
Hasta ahora han demostrado que las investigaciones fueron deficientes y los medicos aún mas
Ella sí cometió el crimen y si le daran castigo
Pero los problemas se fueron acumulando y ya vimos como acabó todo
@JimenezBreyner@ChumelTorres Estanos hablando que la sociedad minimiza los problemas psiquiatricos
A ti te gustaría recibir esta combinación de fármacos de doctores que no tienen ética?
@AlexTule@monero_enm@raymundo_rabago@ChumelTorres Sin diagnóstico le dieron todas estas combinaciones de fármacos? 😮
Entonces queda claro que los médicos que la trataron son unos incompetentes 🤷🏻♀️
@swiftiereads La gente babosa no quiere entender que ese desajuste hormonal puede ser una bomba de tiempo si no es atendido por profesionales
Lo malo aunque psiquiatras, endocrinólogos y ginecólogos explicaran a la gente sobre lo que sufre una mujer en el embarazo, a la gente no le importaría