Lindsay Clancy was prescribed a minimum of six completely different melancholy, nervousness and sleep meds, together with a number of on the similar time when she killed her three kids — and advised her husband she was on the antidepressant Zoloft 4 months earlier than the murders, in accordance with testimony on Monday.
Patrick Clancy, Lindsay’s ex-husband who’s standing by her in the course of the trial, mentioned that the foundation of her nervousness was the thought of returning to work and leaving her kids after her 18 weeks of maternity depart expired.
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She advised her Patrick that she was on Zoloft, a standard antidepressant remedy, in September 2022.
Based on her protection attorneys she had been prescribed a minimum of six completely different medicines by a handful of various docs. They included:
Zoloft, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) often prescribed for melancholy and nervousness
Ativan, a benzodiazepine often given for nervousness and short-term nervousness aid
Lorazepam, a generic model of Ativan
Zolpidem, a sleeping remedy also called Ambien
Diazepam, a benzodiazepine also called Valium, often given for nervousness
Trazodone, a serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor (SARI), given for melancholy
Nonetheless, Clancy “saved getting worse and worse,” Patrick recalled about that point interval — regardless of the household using a nanny to assist look after the kids all through the week.
The household had employed a nanny who labored about 12 hours every week and helped with childcare and family chores, he testified.
Patrick struggled to recall which drug was which when prosecutor Jennifer Sprague went via the checklist of meds his spouse was prescribed on the time, and requested what he knew about her consumption of the medicines.
“I wasn’t maintaining observe of the variety of capsules taken out of every bottle,” he mentioned.
“There have been quite a lot of capsules prescribed, however not quite a lot of capsules taken, appropriate?” Sprague mentioned.
“It’s doable that not lots had been taken,” Patrick responded.
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