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Patrick Clancy's deleted Reddit posts have given a glimpse into his desperation over his then-wife's declining mental health before she killed their three children, according to a new report.
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Patrick previously took to the discussion platform looking for answers about Lindsay's troubles after giving birth to their youngest child, Callan, posts obtained by the New York Post detailed.
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On his account, which was active from 2017 to 2025, Patrick explained how Lindsay started to feel manic after being prescribed the antidepressant Zoloft for the anxiety she experienced about going back to work following Callan's birth, the report stated.
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He specifically shared that the former labor and delivery nurse started to lose a startling amount of weight, and that she went into a manic state after struggling to sleep, according to the since-deleted posts.
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'I suspect this medication was never needed in the first place (Zoloft was my own idea), but my psychiatrist is saying I’m exhibiting signs of bipolar disorder,' he wrote on her behalf on December 7, 2022.
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Patrick posted that in the 'Ask Docs' subreddit page under the title 'posting for my wife,' the Post reported.
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'After a week of taking Zoloft, I developed severe insomnia,' another post shared just seven weeks before Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan were strangled to death by their mother.
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'At one point, I went 48 hours without sleeping,' it continued.
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Patrick previously took to the discussion platform looking for answers for Lindsay's troubles after giving birth to their youngest child, Callan, according to a new report
Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan were found strangled to death in the family's basement on January 24, 2023
Patrick added: 'For weeks I have been lucky to get 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night.
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Oddly, I don’t feel tired, but I know I need more sleep,' per the report.
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That same post also mentioned how his former wife had lost 15lbs in just two weeks, bringing her total weight to 115lbs.
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One of the posts also included Patrick's email address, which was mentioned in Plymouth court by cell phone forensics expert Timothy Chiappini, according to the outlet.
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Then in a post shared on December 9, 2022, the father-of-three suggested that Lindsay had started to think about 'hurting others.'
He asked: 'Has your [medication] experience ever involved thoughts of hurting others, including loved ones?
'Did you ever feel like you came close to acting on them?
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Throughout his posting, Patrick also appeared to share regret over Lindsay going on medication to begin with.
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After Zoloft, Patrick said that doctors prescribed Ativan, other benzodiazepines, sleeping pills to help with her reported insomnia, and Prozac for her anxiety, a post stated.
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Lindsay has never denied taking their lives, but said she was not guilty because she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time
In a December 6, 2022, post titled 'I need another perspective' in a subreddit chain called 'Ask Psychiatry,' Patrick shared: 'I can’t stress enough that her anxiety was very mild going into this.
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'She was eating well, sleeping great as usual, dancing at the wedding we went to and socializing,' he added, per the report.
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He went on to share that something similar occurred after the birth of their older children, but it was a lot harder the third time around.
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This happened with our previous two children and she was able to get through it fairly easy with some therapy and renewed coping skills.
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Definitely, but I believe we could have solved that by giving her more time to herself to decompress as we have in the past,' he continued, according to the publication.
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Patrick then went on to question if therapy would be better for Lindsay than medication, the Post reported.
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By December 15, Patrick shared that his 'severely depressed' and 'numb' partner had been admitted to the hospital, according to a Reddit post reviewed by the outlet.
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Lindsay was checked into Massachusetts General Hospital emergency room at that time, according to testimony at her recent trial.
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A total of 12 jurors - nine women and three men - were tasked with determining if Lindsay should be found guilty of being criminally responsible for the death of her young children.
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Her case ended in a mistrial earlier this month
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The 36-year-old was then sent to McLean Hospital on December 30 of that year after a postpartum treatment center in Rhode Island turned her away because medical professionals believed she needed more generalized psychiatric care, her treating psychiatrists said on the stand.
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Then on January 23, 2023 – a day before the children were killed – Patrick asked a technology subreddit page about developing an app for a real estate open house, according to the Post.
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He told the court that Lindsay appeared to be in a good state of mind after her hospital release, and that he did not suspect anything was wrong on the night of January 24, when she sent him out to run errands while she strangled the kids to death in the basement of their family home in Duxbury.
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Lindsay then cut her wrists and throat and jumped from a second-story window.
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Patrick said he found her lying outside after the fall before he rushed inside the home and found his children.
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A total of 12 jurors – nine women and three men – were tasked with determining if Lindsay should be found guilty of being criminally responsible for the death of her young children.
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She has never denied taking their lives, but said she was not guilty because she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time.
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Patrick mentioned that Lindsay was dealing with troubles after the birth of their third child Callan
But the case that rocked America ended in a mistrial earlier this month after they failed to come to a unanimous decision.
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Prosecutors have not yet decided if she will be tried again.
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She continues to receive psychiatric treatment at Tewksbury State Hospital.
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Both she and Patrick have lawsuits filed against doctors who treated her, claiming that their alleged missteps resulted in the deaths of their children.
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The Daily Mail reached out to Patrick and Lindsay's lawyers for comment.
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