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Deleted Reddit posts show months of warning signs before Lindsay Clancy’s children died
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Deleted Reddit posts show months of warning signs before Lindsay Clancy’s children died

Besfort Hajdari
September 28, 2026
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A recently discovered Reddit account belonging to Patrick Clancy shows him quietly seeking medical advice from strangers online for months before his wife Lindsay killed their three children.

On January 23, 2023, Patrick Clancy posted on Reddit asking for help with an app for a real estate open house.

By his own account, there was no sign that day that anything was wrong. It would turn out to be his last post on an account he’d used since 2017.

The New York Post got access to account’s history, and it paints a heartbreaking picture.

Turning to Reddit for a second opinion

For months before that final post, Patrick had been active in Reddit’s medical forums, including “Ask Docs” and “Ask Psychiatry,” laying out his wife’s symptoms and asking doctors and psychiatrists on the site to weigh in on what was happening to her.

The trouble reportedly started with Lindsay’s anxiety about going back to work as a labor and delivery nurse after having their third child.

In a December 7 post written “for my wife,” Patrick explained that Zoloft had been his idea originally, though her psychiatrist suspected bipolar disorder. He said her anxiety hadn’t been severe before starting the medication, noting she’d been eating and sleeping fine, and had even danced at a wedding they’d attended shortly before.

Things took a dark turn

According to the posts, within a week of starting Zoloft, Lindsay was barely sleeping, at one point going 48 hours straight without rest, and typically getting only three or four hours a night even though she didn’t feel tired. She dropped around 15 pounds over two months, falling to 115 pounds.

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