Earlier this week, we discussed this case of Lindsay Clancy, a horrifying case in which a woman was, in my opinion, obviously suffering from postpartum psychosis and then killed three of her children and tried to commit suicide.
It’s a horrifying case.
There are differences between postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. They have the same basic cause, but very, very different effects.
There are a bunch of women who are now taking advantage of the fact that there is sympathy for a woman who had serious psychosis, destroyed three lives, and then destroyed her own in the most horrible fashion. These women are trying to claim that they have the same issues that Lindsay Clancy did.
If you do, you should be hospitalized immediately.
That’s the reality. You should be in a mental hospital. Lindsay Clancy should have been in a mental hospital because she had postpartum psychosis, which made her dangerous to herself and others.
If you are saying you are the same as Lindsay Clancy, that is because you are truly self-serving and narcissistic — or you’re dangerous. Those are the only two choices. That’s because if you’re pretending you’re the same as the person who killed her three kids with an exercise band and then tried to commit suicide by cutting her wrist and jumping out of the second story window, then either you really ought to be under professional care 24 hours a day in an institution or you are a bad person, because what you’re doing here is not the same thing.
Conflating these things is not rational, reasonable, or sympathetic. If what you’re trying to say is, “I’m suffering from postpartum depression,” you can do that without identifying with the woman who must wish she had never suffered from it.
TikTok is rotting brains, absolutely rotting brains. A woman released a TikTok in which she wrote, “Same, Lindsay.”
“Same, Lindsay” is not a trend. If you put out a video that says “Same, Lindsay,” we should immediately investigate you and put you in a mental hospital because one of two things is happening: Either you are saying that you feel the same way Lindsay Clancy did right before she murdered her children because she had postpartum psychosis — in which case you need to be looked at under professional care full-time — or you are searching for empathy from people who are bereft of any sense of rationality.
This is bad, self-serving, narcissistic — and it’s trash. It’s a trash thing to do. TikTok is making people stupid, narcissistic, and ridiculous. These videos are ridiculous.
Allie Beth Stuckey tweeted, “Your wife probably shouldn’t be on TikTok.”
Yup. If you’re taking a video of yourself saying, “Same, Lindsay,” with you crying, with you so depressed that you feel like you can’t handle things, what are you doing on TikTok?
Shouldn’t you be doing something else to make yourself happy? This is not where happiness lives. This self-centeredness is disgusting. It is gross and vile and morally wrong.
You’re making a category error again. Postpartum depression is real. Get the treatment you need.
Postpartum psychosis is real, and you should probably be in an institution until you are properly medicated and you reach a point where we know that you’re not a risk to yourself or others.
But if you’re a person who’s suffering and you don’t have either of those things, it’s wrong to identify as what you are not.
And if you are a person who has postpartum depression and you are likening yourself to the woman who murdered her children, what are you doing?
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