Exclusive | Horrific hallucinations told me to stab my daughter the sad way Lindsay Clancy and I were both failed

Aaisha Alvi was sitting in a doctor’s office when she first heard the command.“Stab Lina! Stab Lina! Stab Lina!”At the same time, she saw a vision of a long carver knife plunging into her 4-year-old daughter Lina’s chest again and again.“I didn’t want to do what the voice was telling me, but at the same time, I felt like it was going to make me do it,” she told The Post.The voice — one only she could hear — had first appeared two months earlier, after suffering a miscarriage.“At that point, I started screaming to the doctor, ‘Just give me something to make this all stop,'” recalled Alvi.“I don’t want to be locked up,” she pleaded to the doctor, rambling verses of scripture about the sanctity of life.

“I’m feeling forced to do bad things to people and to myself.”When asked what those bad things were, Alvi couldn’t bring herself to say.“I didn’t articulate exactly what they were because it just felt like they were so profoundly evil that I couldn’t,” she remembered.

“I just said they were evil things.”Alvi said the doctor didn’t ask any follow-up questions, deciding she didn’t require hospitalization — and that admitting her would be a very difficult process anyway.Instead, the doctor prescribed medication for panic attacks.

“I did take the medications, but they continued to worsen,” she recalled.Then, as had happened after four previous appointments with other doctors, she was sent home.Nearly two decades later, that afternoon still haunts Alvi — not only because it was one of the darkest moments of her life, but because it represented a failure she believes should never have happened.As the murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy begins, postpartum psychosis — a rare, severe psychiatric emergency —  has thrust a little-understood illness into the national spotlight.Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to killing her three young children in January 2023 before attempting suicide, lea...