Lindsay Clancy's trial puts postpartum psychosis on the map

Postpartum psychosis is a psychiatric emergency that can involve mania, depression, hallucinations and delusions.

The defense in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial called multiple witnesses Tuesday. Clancy has admitted to killing her three young children in 2023, but has pleaded not guilty to murder, arguing she had postpartum psychosis, bipolar disorder and was being overmedicated. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson has mor

If you can't understand that it's evil to kill children, you are a mortal danger to the innocent and therefore not fit to live in a just society.

While Clancy admitted to killing her children, the defense has argued that due to postpartum psychosis and overmedication, she should not be held criminally responsible.

Clancy’s live-streamed trial has become fodder for amateur sleuths to push viral conspiracy theories that threaten to undermine efforts to de-stigmatize illness, experts say Meghan Cliffel was riding the subway in New York City in December 2015 when she became convinced the entire city belonged to a cult that was plot

The high-profile murder trial of Lindsay Clancy's has put the condition in the spotlight. Women who have had it call for more research and understanding of a difficult mental illness.