Clancy medication changes and hopelessness before murders

Clancy murder trial focuses on psychiatric hospital stay

• Lindsay Clancy's murder trial focused Friday on the nearly five days she spent in a psychiatric hospital a few weeks before she killed her three children.
• A prosecutor, questioning one of Clancy's McLean Hospital psychiatrists, underscored that she denied to clinicians that she wanted to hurt anyone else or planned to kill herself.
• Clancy's defense aimed to show that she sought mental health help for months, wasn't properly diagnosed as she went from provider to provider, and was put on a series of medications that left her worse off.
• Both sides treat her hospital stay as a key chapter in their accounts of her mental state when she strangled the children in their suburban home and then jumped out a second-story window.