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

You need to actually go and read the court judgement before posting this.
they had reasonable doubt she committed first degree murder.

I've been following this case from the beginning, In my opinion LC was a very mentally unwell woman that did try to get help, she has since been diagnosed with bipolar 2.

My thoughts are the she was suicidal and didn't want to be on this earth anymore, she however had the belief that her children would have been better off dead than living in this world without her.

And failed, Failed to diagnose correctly, failed to medicate appropriately, failed to treat appropriately.

Yet while intubated, she used a white board to ask the doctor

"Do I have an attorney?", "Is my body broken?", and "Are my legs straight?"

Indeed.

yes, there is CCTV of him at the pharmacy and the takeaway.

BUT there is doubt on exactly when the kids died. Two of them could have already been killed when he left.

She was a nurse and would know how to cut her wrists - but she did it in the wrong direction.
She had a crushed thyroid, consistent with strangulation.

Her apple watch shows that she was running up and down stairs as soon as he left the house. my opinion is that it's plausible that 2 were already dead and she was running up and down to the basement in a panic etc.

so, the grandparents and PC were so concerned that they barely left her side.

But then he was happy to leave her alone with the kids for almost an hour, to get a takeaway??

I initially thought she must be guilty, but after reading further, there are just too many inconsistencies…

Stating that men are responsible for the vast and overwhelming majority of violent crime is misandry? What a joke.

you’re also missing the point of my post. The fact that women CAN be violent and commit heinous crimes, albeit at a far lower frequency than men, is the point and because it runs so contrary of social constructions of femininity and motherhood, I think it’s why you see a lot of people racking their brains and clutching at straws that is wasn’t her, because ‘loving mothers don’t do this’ and she was by all testimony a ‘loving mother’ because the alternative is too difficult to reconcile.

i also fear trying to prove she didn’t do it misses the point, as a society we desperately need a conversation about the discrepancy in healthcare between men and women and the woeful lack of understanding and support in terms of maternal mental health as exemplified by this case and the plethora of women who have come forward and said they’ve encountered similar

"Lindsay's last recorded heart rate was 57 beats per minute—which is considered low—while app data showed that she climbed two flights of stairs at 5:03 and 5:33 p.m. However, Lindsay's attorney Kevin Reddington challenged the reliability of the data during cross-examination, noting that Lindsay's watch stopped recording at 5:23 p.m. and her phone stopped recording at 5:38 p.m."

A dreadful conclusion that belongs in centuries long gone.
Having a mental health condition does not make a person evil.
And people who can be called evil may be entirely rational and not impacted by a mental health condition at all.
Saying that anyone evil has a mental health condition ‘gets them off the hook’.
Some of the worst leaders in history did/do not have a mental health condition. But were/are certainly evil. And knew/know full well what they were/are doing.

Some poor soul who is ill because their brain works ( or doesn’t sometimes) in a way we do not yet fully understand is not automatically evil.

Your last line is key. The jury’s verdict was towards NGRI not that she didn’t do it at all.

Yes but that she still did it. But with NGRI verdict.

Agree. Jumping out of a bedroom window is going to hurt or cause damage but it’s absolutely not certain to kill you. If someone wants to kill themself then it’s a risk assuming this will be successful as it likely wont and wasn’t. There is a bridge near me and people go there as there is no way of surviving due to height.

PC admitted that one google search re "suicide" was made by him

I haven't followed this closely, so I can't have an opinion on whether she was severely mentally unwell or not.
However, in my experience of caring for a couple of women with severe post partum psychosis (which is NOT the same as post partum depression), if she was diagnosed with PPP, I cannot understand why she was not hospitalised in a high dependency psychiatric unit with 1 to 1 care until stabilised on effective treatment.

"they had reasonable doubt she committed first degree murder."

Obviously, since that is what she was charged with. But we still don't, or are permitted to, know the following

Did they have reasonable doubts that she even killed them?

Or did they have reasonable doubts she knew what she was doing due to state of mind etc?

And in both cases what evidence / testimony etc led to this reasonable doubt.

Most people accept she killed her children and while she remains technically innocent for the time being if the prosecution offer a plea deal of not guilty by reason of insanity, I suspect he defence would accept it

Time will tell.

America. The sheer cost of it. Insurance. They may not have had the finances or the insurance to cover the cost.

i don’t think she was diagnosed with PPP despite repeatedly seeking help for symptoms that pointed in that direction

A takeaway she ordered and asked him to pick up.

And shortly beforehand, she was making a snowman and playing with the children.

This is a fair point @Disappointed100

They were a wealthy family, able to afford inpatient treatment for her at McLean Hospital, plus all the other doctors, psychiatrists, and therapists she saw.

I absolutely believe this to be the case too. She was not diagnosed with post part psychosis, she heard the supposed voice this one time only in the exact time frame her husband was running errands that she orchestrated. It is all very convenient. She was using exercise bands again to exercise whilst in hospital. She is cold, calculated and she didn't enjoy her children.

It can actually be both. It’s not as simple as mad/bad, it’s very nuanced and even severe mental
illness doesn’t always negate criminal responsibility. See Valdo Calocane. Schizophrenic but still criminally liable for manslaughter.

Although I haven’t followed this case that closely as I’m not interested.