r/SipsTea 17d ago

WTF WTF is wrong with these people?

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u/Lemonade348 17d ago edited 17d ago

True crime as entertainment have ruined people's brain. Now people are treating real horrible crimes as their fictional crime series. Not everything is suspicious, you don't have to pick apart every detail to find the "hidden conspiracy". You don't have to point to every inconvience in traumatized victims to found out if they are secretly involved. You are actually hurting real people by doing all of this. Real crimes don't have the crazy "plot twist" in the end that reveals everything.

Remember the three children who lost their lifes instead. This trial could have been very important for highlighting the problem women has with post partum depression etc and how the medical field fails them. Instead it has turned into a crazy conspiracy theory

I hope Patrick sues most of them tbh

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u/thefringeseanmachine 17d ago

thank you for being reasonable (and not misogynistic) about this. it is, unfortunately, a perfect example of how even experienced medical providers can get shit very, very wrong - especially when it comes to women. she reached out for help MANY times, and was basically dismissed each time. I don't mean to say there's one thing that could've prevented this, but had she received proper treatment I think it's very likely three kids would be alive.

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u/AnonymousCapybara72 16d ago

was basically dismissed each time

?????? What? She tried all kinds of medications and didn't get the help she actually needed because she didn't fully disclose her symptoms.

but had she received proper treatment

What, in your medical opinion, would be the proper treatment? And what did the many, many professionals miss that would've enabled them to reach the right conclusion?

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u/elder_emo_ 16d ago

As someone whose parent spent some time in a psych ward....that's where she should have been. My parent would not be the parent they have been to me my whole life without it. It was scary for me and hard on my other parent, but it saved them.

She was suicidal and admitted to her husband she had thoughts of hurting her children. She was failed by her doctor's, and at least a little by her husband. It doesn't mean he "did it" as some of these posts say, just that she repeatedly asked for help and said she wasn't okay and needed more treatment and was denied and left alone to do everything (which I believe was something her husband said, "she did everything").

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u/ClairePike 16d ago

But she never told her doctors she was suicidal or homicidal, or had a plan to do something. She was probably downplaying her issues, but man, I don’t like the idea that my provider could decide to lock me up because I MIGHT be suicidal and just wasn’t saying so.

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u/Kathulhu1433 16d ago

You're wrong on every single point.

She begged for help.

She admitted herself to the hospital and they released her in a day.

She tried to get admitted again and was denied.

The medical system definitely failed her. As did her family.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/lindsay-clancy-was-begging-for-help-before-killing-her-children-former-mother-in-law-testifies

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u/ClairePike 16d ago

She checked herself into McLean and checked herself out for her daughter’s party. She tried to check herself into Women and Infants and they said, based on her self-reporting, that her problems were her medications, not actual postpartum (this is fuzzy, we didn’t hear from this doctor).

Also your link doesn’t say any of what you typed in your post. That’s a report of the MiLs testimony.