Episode 511: Women’s mental health and the Lindsay Clancy story

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Warning, this episode contains talk of attempted suicide and harm to children. The Lindsay Clancy story may not have made national news, but you’ve probably seen it if you live in the eastern U.S. Lindsay was a mother of three, who allegedly killed her three young children while suffering from postpartum psychosis. This is an absolutely unimaginable and tragic case, and one that opens up a bigger conversation about women’s mental health. As well as a personal one for me, as I struggled greatly with postpartum anxiety and some psychosis after the birth of my son in 2007. Lindsay was being treated for her mental illness, and allegedly was on several medications. A recent article quotes an OB/GYN nurse and perinatal mental health advocate by the name of Melissa Anne DuBois, where she explains, “The rhetoric coming from the prosecution and other people in authority hazardously distort the medical complexity of this disorder. When they paint Lindsay as a monster who carried out an elaborate, premeditated murder, instead of as someone suffering from a serious mental illness that wasn’t properly treated and who subsequently had a psychotic break, it sends a message to all the struggling parents out there [that] nothing can help me.” This episode shares Linday’s tragic story, my own personal journey here, touches on how privilege is operating here, as well as what we can do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	You're listening to Makesman Noise podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to
0:47.4	empower yourself. I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker, entrepreneur, life coach
0:53.6	since 2007, an author of three books
0:56.5	that have been translated into 18 languages and are available in 22 countries. Each week, I'll bring
1:02.8	you a guest or a lesson that will help you maximize unshakable confidence, master resilience,
1:08.6	and make some noise in your life. You ready? Let's go.
1:17.7	Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of the podcast, a mini-sowed. I, per usual, I'm so glad that
1:24.1	you're here with me. And today, I have an episode episode that I is something that I can't get off my mind.
1:31.6	And I went back and forth with bringing it to you because I'm like, oh, it's kind of a downer.
1:37.8	And does it really fit in with what we talk about over here?
1:40.7	And at the end of the day, it does because we talk a lot about mental health
1:45.3	on the podcast. And partly because I think it is absolutely directly related to personal
1:54.5	development and us living our best life. Because if our mental health is struggling, we simply can't, you know, be our own
2:03.4	hypergirl. We can't implement the strategies and tools that we all have and use when our
2:13.6	brains are working the stable way that we always hope that they will. And I also have my
2:21.1	personal experiences and struggles with my own mental health that stem from my family history
2:28.6	around my dad. And as most of you know, he passed away in 2016 and struggled his entire life with depression, sometimes debilitating at times, hospitalized at times, and anxiety for him.
2:46.6	So it holds a special place in my heart, not just selfishly for me personally, but for other people too.
2:54.9	And of course, for all of you.
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