What If Doctors Missed My Postpartum Psychosis, Too?

A story following the end of the Lindsay Clancy trial in a mistrial draws parallels with postpartum psychosis and the difficulty of recognizing it. The account focuses on Clancy’s alleged communications and actions in January 2023, including reports about her emotional state after childbirth: she claimed increased energy after her son Dawson was born in 2019 and threw herself into intense exercise after Callan’s birth in May 2022. The narrator then describes her own postpartum psychosis beginning in October 2020, marked by euphoria, sleeplessness, rapid planning, and eventual delay in diagnosis by medical professionals. The piece emphasizes that postpartum psychosis is often misdiagnosed.