Lindsay Clancy Described THIS To Her Doctors

One to two women out of every thousand who give birth will experience postpartum psychosis. It is classified as a psychiatric emergency. It involves hallucinations, delusions, mania, paranoia, and command voices that the person experiencing them cannot distinguish from reality. And there is no routine screening for it in postnatal care anywhere in the United States.

Lindsay Clancy described symptoms to her providers that her civil lawsuit now alleges were auditory hallucinations — not the intrusive thoughts her doctors treated them as. That distinction is the difference between an anxiety diagnosis and immediate hospitalization. Nobody asked the follow-up qu...