Lindsay Clancy revealed she was desperate to get mental break from taking care of everyone 2 months before killing kids

Lindsay Clancy wrote in her journal two months before killing her three young kids that she was “so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone,” jurors learned at her murder trial Monday.The 35-year-old Boston-area mom documented having “horrible insomnia and anxiety” and being wracked with guilt over her choice to stop breastfeeding her 8-month-old son and sleep train him in journal entries before the murder.On Nov.18, 2023, two months before she strangled her kids with elastic workout bands, she wrote: “It’s like I’m so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone that my mind is trying to make something physically wrong with me.”“I want help.

I want to be well,” Clancy also wrote in the journal, which had entries beginning Oct.13, 2022 and ending Jan.

18, 2023.The excerpts were read to the jury during the testimony of Massachusetts State Trooper Cory Melo who was the final witness Monday afternoon following whirlwind testimony from 12 doctors, cops and nurses who took the stand earlier in the day.Melo collected the diary and other journals and evidence from Clancy’s Duxbury, Mass.

home.Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, killed her children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan on Jan.24, 2023, before she tried to kill herself.

Clancy is arguing that she was suffering postpartum psychosis and that she did everything possible to get help before she killed her kids — but she misdiagnosed and overmedicated.Her lawyers want her acquitted of murder.Earlier in the day, the jurors heard from psychiatrists who saw Clancy during her month-long stay at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston recovering from her suicide attempt, which paralyzed her.The psychiatrists testified she was cooperative, and didn’t appear to be suffering from suicidal or homicidal thoughts.Forensic psychiatrist Jhilam Biswas saw Clancy once on Jan.26, 2023 when she was sedated and intubated with a breathing tube just befo...