After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, her murder trial resumed Monday with diary entries from the months leading up to the killings in a coastal Massachusetts town in 2023.

Clancy described feeling anxious and overwhelmed with motherhood, including her struggles to get her newborn Callan to sleep and constant worries of his being sick. She also expressed concerns about going back to work as a labor and delivery nurse, not being able to breastfeed, and feeling disconnected from her children and her then-husband.

 I'm so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone that my mind is trying to find something physically wrong with me,  she wrote in a Nov. 18, 2022, entry.

Clancy's defense says she was a loving mother who was overmastered by postpartum psychosis, a dangerous psychiatric condition that afflicts a small proportion of women after childbirth and affects their hold on reality.

Prosecutors contend that she acted intentionally and should be held criminally responsible for the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged in age from 8 months to 5 years.

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Clancy's lawyers don't dispute that she killed the children. But in the criminal trial and a medical malpractice lawsuit, her attorneys say the 35-year-old had bipolar disorder that wasn't fully diagnosed until after the killings.

Her attorneys say her condition seemed to worsen on an ever-shifting lineup of psychiatric prescriptions, some of them problematic for bipolar patients.

Her diary sheds light on the mental health issues at the heart of the case

Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP A page from a notebook kept by Lindsay Clancy in which she documents her medications and feelings during Clancy's murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Monday, Aug. 3, 2026.

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