Lindsay Clancy's trial puts postpartum psychosis on the map

Image source, ReutersWarning: This story contains distressing details and discussion of attempted suicideA month before Lindsay Clancy killed her three children, she went to her mother and then-husband and told them she had "thoughts of harming the children". Clancy's mother Paula Musgrove testified this week that during that time her daughter would say: "'This isn't me, I've never been like this before.' And I would agree, because she wasn't," Musgrove said. Clancy is not disputing that she carried out the killings, but has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. Her defence argues that Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she took her children's lives.Her symptoms included hallucinations and delusions that began after the birth of her third child."She was unable to conform her behavior to the rule of law and she had no appreciation for the wrongfulness of her act," Paul Zeizel, a clinical and forensic psychologist, said on the stand on Wednesday.Prosecutors, meanwhile, alleged she made a calculated decision to intentionally kill her children - Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, who was eight months.With postpartum psychosis, which is considered a medical emergenc...