“My Wife Is Not Bipolar” Nurse Testifies & All The Signs of Possible Hypomania Discussed in Court

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What happened when Lindsay first visited the emergency department in November 2022?

Stephanie Soo 0:01
Barbing barbu. November sixteenth, twenty twenty two, Lindsay goes to the South Shore Emergency Department. This is the same hospital that she gets sent to january twenty fourth before she's med flighted. Okay. So November sixteenth, she goes into the emergency department and she's like, I have severe insomnia. She is prescribed chazidone at fifty milligrams for sleep. She takes it home. She doesn't stay. She's not like inpatient. She just goes to the emergency room. She gets a prescription and she later reports to Dr. Tufts that she went to the emergency room, got tracidone, and it had very minimal effects on her. Two days after this emergency room visit, november eighteenth, she writes in her journal Tree of Life Journal.
Stephanie Soo 0:44
It's like I'm so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone that my mind is trying to make something physically wrong with me. My mind never shuts off. It's constantly thinking of the next thing someone needs. I can't shut it off. I desperately want to go back to work, but now I don't know how to function and it worries me. Now that we're in the month of November, the medication switching gets really fast. And from there, December does not get any better, at least in my opinion. It would appear that November and December, Lindsay is going through a very active, rapidly changing psychiatric treatment period. So from September 15th, 2022 to January 23rd, there are approximately 35 prescription dosage changes, taper, or treatment plan events that involve 13 core psychiatric medications.
Stephanie Soo 1:31
So it's like 13 medicine, and then they're like, okay, well, let's ramp it up, let's decrease the dosage, let's swap. And it's 35 different plans. So you have Zoloft, SSRI, you have Adivan, which is a benzodiazepine, hydroxyine, which is like a prescription, antihistamine to replace the Benadryl, Boost Bar, anxiety medication, trazodone, an antidepressant, Prozac, a different SSRI. Ambien, a sedative sleep medication, Remarin, an antidepressant, clonapin, a benzodiazepine, seroquil, antipsychotic, valium, another benzodiazepine, lamictal, an anticonvulsant, and mood stabilizer, as well as Lavil, which is an antidepressant. We literally have a cocktail of antidepressants, benzodiazepines, sleep medications, antipsychotic mood medication, and a mood stabilizer moving in and out of Lindsay's med regimen.
Stephanie Soo 2:25
Now, I'm not saying they're moving in and out of Lindsay, but it's a constant up and down increase, decrease with the dosage, and she's clearly not getting better. Thanksgiving twenty twenty two, two months before the Clancy children are killed, Lindsay is showing signs of depression. Her husband Patrick takes the stand and there's gonna be a lot more on Thanksgiving in the next part 'cause

How did Lindsay’s medication regimen change during the intense November‑December treatment period?

Stephanie Soo 2:46
There's a lot on Thanksgiving. But he's being asked about Thanksgiving. What was Lindsay like?
Patrick Clancy 2:51
She wasn't talking much, she had low energy, she was really depressed. I just remember when she showed up, um, my sister in law gave her a big hug.
Jennifer Sprigg 3:01
And um She was able to get through dinner, eat dinner with everyone. And when she told you she was suicidal, did you ask her if she had a plan on how to kill herself? Yes. And what was her response?
Patrick Clancy 3:17
She said no.
Stephanie Soo 3:18
And at some point in time did she tell you that this was the first time she was having these thoughts? I don't know if she mentioned it, it was her first time or not. I just remember her saying she had them. Patrick's mom, Sue Clancy, more on her later as well, is also a nurse. She works at South Shore Hospital. So this is again the same hospital. Same what? Yeah, she is. So Lindsay is well, she was a nurse, a labor and delivery nurse at Mass General, but she gets taken to South Shore. And Sue Clancy works at South Shore in labor and delivery. And she recommends Lindsay to see a woman named Julie Paul. Julie Paul works at South Shore. She's a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who can prescribe.
Stephanie Soo 3:58
She is board certified. And this alone. Wait, hold on. This is so crazy. Yeah. Patrick's mom is a delivery nurse. Labor and delivery nurse.

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