Lindsay Clancy case: was it evil, or severe mental illness?

KellyK2026 · 2026-09-04T15:50:08+00:00

Lindsay Clancy, what do we all think? Pure evil or mentally ill?

PlaneOverhead · 04/09/2026 16:56

Obviously mental illness? What a weird question.

Notbuiltforheat · 04/09/2026 16:57

That poor woman.

Emupls · 04/09/2026 16:57

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DirtyGertiefromno30 · 04/09/2026 16:57

Mentally ill of course and severely let down by the professionals .

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KellyK2026 · 04/09/2026 16:58

Emupls · 04/09/2026 16:57

Hate threads like this

Don’t participate then?

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KellyK2026 · 04/09/2026 16:58

DirtyGertiefromno30 · 04/09/2026 16:57

Mentally ill of course and severely let down by the professionals .

I think the same but many of my friends disagree

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KellyK2026 · 04/09/2026 16:59

PlaneOverhead · 04/09/2026 16:56

Obviously mental illness? What a weird question.

Not necessarily, plenty of people are saying that mental illness is being used as an excuse and that she planned it carefully before committing the act. That isn’t my thoughts, but many others think that.

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SpottyAlpaca · 04/09/2026 17:02

I haven’t followed the details of this case, other than to be appalled at the disgraceful way such a devastating tragedy has been turned into a media circus.

Something very similar happened to a family that I know personally. The mother was not prosecuted but was treated as a mentally ill person. The family eventually reunited and her surviving child is subject to strong safeguarding oversight.

CloverAndGrass · 04/09/2026 17:05

If it was mental illness, it was a strangely carefully planned case of loss of control, with the unusual ability to talk calmly to her husband in the middle of the murders and know she shouldn’t tell him what she was doing. I find it very hard to understand how people can read the details and still believe she didn’t chose to murder her poor children.

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 04/09/2026 17:08

CloverAndGrass · 04/09/2026 17:05

If it was mental illness, it was a strangely carefully planned case of loss of control, with the unusual ability to talk calmly to her husband in the middle of the murders and know she shouldn’t tell him what she was doing. I find it very hard to understand how people can read the details and still believe she didn’t chose to murder her poor children.

Whereas I find it hard to read the details and conclude that this tragedy was caused by anything but mental illness and a lack of appropriate support.

bigboykitty · 04/09/2026 17:09

Ask Patrick...

Zanatdy · 04/09/2026 17:10

I watched the whole trial and think she was mentally ill, but wasn’t overly convinced she met
the legal definition for insanity, given she only heard the voices / was in psychosis during the crime. But I do believe she was very unwell and let down medically.

Error404FucksNotFound · 04/09/2026 17:10

I would argue that what we call evil is itself a mental health issue/personality disorder

Buzzlightfear · 04/09/2026 17:13

It was mental illness. My friends sister had post partum psychosis. It was terrifying. Luckily for her she got the help she needed but I can easily believe she could have done something similar.

I find it hard to understand how anyone can believe otherwise. What was her motive?

Londonmummy66 · 04/09/2026 17:13

CloverAndGrass · 04/09/2026 17:05

If it was mental illness, it was a strangely carefully planned case of loss of control, with the unusual ability to talk calmly to her husband in the middle of the murders and know she shouldn’t tell him what she was doing. I find it very hard to understand how people can read the details and still believe she didn’t chose to murder her poor children.

Clearly never seen anyone in the throes of psychosis then.

hattie43 · 04/09/2026 17:16

The trouble is people want someone to pay for the murder of those three children not shrug their shoulders and say oh well it was mental illness .

AppropriateAdult · 04/09/2026 17:17

CloverAndGrass · 04/09/2026 17:05

If it was mental illness, it was a strangely carefully planned case of loss of control, with the unusual ability to talk calmly to her husband in the middle of the murders and know she shouldn’t tell him what she was doing. I find it very hard to understand how people can read the details and still believe she didn’t chose to murder her poor children.

But this is how psychotic illness works, unfortunately. It’s not a ‘loss of control’ in the way you’re imagining - it’s a fixed, unshakeable belief that carrying out a particular action is correct and righteous. Killings committed during a psychotic episode can be meticulously planned out and executed - it’s not generally a wild, uncontrolled rampage. The point is that the ill person firmly believes that what they’re doing is the right and indeed the only possible course of action.

Littlebitpsycho · 04/09/2026 17:23

CloverAndGrass · 04/09/2026 17:05

If it was mental illness, it was a strangely carefully planned case of loss of control, with the unusual ability to talk calmly to her husband in the middle of the murders and know she shouldn’t tell him what she was doing. I find it very hard to understand how people can read the details and still believe she didn’t chose to murder her poor children.

This. Everyone seems to talk about poor HER, how awful for HER. Nobody seems to be talking about the poor children she MURDERED.

If she had been ill for a long time, and had thoughts previously of hurting her children, why the fuck didn't she walk away while she could?

pimplebum · 04/09/2026 17:27

KellyK2026 · 04/09/2026 16:58

I think the same but many of my friends disagree

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Dont know the case at all

please link if tslking about a specific case

The very fact you murder your children means that you are mentally unwell

those of us who are mentally well get pushed to the limit but we go no where near murder or even harming

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KellyK2026 · 04/09/2026 17:28

Littlebitpsycho · 04/09/2026 17:23

This. Everyone seems to talk about poor HER, how awful for HER. Nobody seems to be talking about the poor children she MURDERED.

If she had been ill for a long time, and had thoughts previously of hurting her children, why the fuck didn't she walk away while she could?

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I feel absolutely horrible for the children but I think she wasn’t mentally with it. The fact that she was put on 13 different types of drugs prior to the killings, had asked multiple professionals for help, and that even her in-laws and ex husband said that she was mentally unwell speaks volumes. She recorded in her diary about not being able to sleep and her ex husband reported seeing her sat on the sofa rocking back and forth with a pillow over her head. That’s not normal. And neither is slitting your wrists, trying to slit your throat and jump out of a window. My concern is, that if she is found guilty, more children and women will suffer as postpartum psychosis will not be taken seriously.

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Totaldramallama · 04/09/2026 17:31

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Totaldramallama · 04/09/2026 17:31

Well obviously not evil. No one has three kids, spends years raising them then suddenly turns evil and kills them.

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SulkingInTheCatio · 04/09/2026 17:34

Mentally ill. It appears she was a loving mother until she killed them. I don’t think anyone can be a loving mother like that and then kill her kids without being mentally ill. 🤷‍♀️

Littlebitpsycho · 04/09/2026 17:39

I don't think being mentally ill excuses her to be honest. Many women suffer post partum depression. Some women suffer post partum psychosis. Very very few of them MURDER their children.

She knew she was unwell. She had thought previously that she was capable of hurting them. She could have walked away and didn't