“My Wife Is Not Bipolar” Nurse Testifies & All The Signs of Possible Hypomania Discussed in Court

Stephanie Soo (0:01)

Badabing, badaboo.

Stephanie Soo (0:03)

November 16th, 2022, Lindsay goes to the South Shore Emergency Department. This is the same hospital that she gets sent to January 24th before she's med flighted.

Stephanie Soo (0:13)

Okay.

Stephanie Soo (0:14)

So November 16th, she goes into the emergency department and she's like, I have severe insomnia. She is prescribed Chazidone at 50 milligrams for sleep. She takes it home, she doesn't stay, she's not like inpatient, she just goes to the emergency room, she gets a prescription, and she later reports to Dr. Tufts that she went to the emergency room, got Chazidone, and it had very minimal effects on her. Two days after this emergency room visit, November 18th, she writes in her journal, Tree of Life Journal. 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. My mind never shuts off. It's constantly thinking of the next thing someone needs. I can't shut it off. I desperately want to go back to work, but now I don't know how to function, and it worries me.

Now that we're in the month of November, the medication switching gets really fast. And from there, December does not get any better, at least in my opinion. It would appear that November and December, Lindsay is going through a very active, rapidly changing psychiatric treatment period. So from September 15th, 2022 to January 23rd, there are approximately 35 prescription dosage changes, taper or treatment plan events that involve 13 core psychiatric medications. So it's like 13 medicine, and then they're like, okay, well, let's ramp it up. Let's decrease the dosage. Let's swap. And it's 35 different plans.

So you have Zoloft SSRI, you have Ativan, which is a benzodiazepine, hydroxacine, which is like a prescription antihistamine to replace the Benadryl, Boostbar, anxiety medication, Shrazadone, an antidepressant, Prozac, a different SSRI, Ambien, a sedative sleep medication, Remarin, an antidepressant, Clonopin, a benzodiazepine, Seroquel, antipsychotic, Valium, another benzodiazepine, Lamictal, an anticonvulsant and mood stabilizer, as well as Elaville, which is an antidepressant. We literally have a cocktail of antidepressants, benzodiazepines, sleep medications, antipsychotic mood medication, and a mood stabilizer moving in and out of Lindsay's med regimen. Now, I'm not saying they're moving in and out of Lindsay, but it's a constant up and down increase, decrease with the dosage, and she's clearly not getting better. Thanksgiving 2022, two months before the Clancy children are killed, Lindsay is showing signs of depression.

Her husband Patrick takes the stand, and there's going to be a lot more on Thanksgiving in the next part, because there's a lot on Thanksgiving. But he's being asked about Thanksgiving.

What was Lindsay like?

Stephanie Soo (2:51)

She wasn't talking much. She had low energy.

SPEAKER_3 (2:54)

She was really depressed.

Stephanie Soo (2:55)

I just remember when she showed up, my sister-in-law gave her a big hug.

SPEAKER_3 (3:01)

And she was able to get through dinner, eat dinner with everyone?

Stephanie Soo (3:06)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_3 (3:07)

And when she told you she was suicidal, did you ask her if she had a plan on how to kill herself?

Stephanie Soo (3:13)

Yes.

SPEAKER_3 (3:14)

And what was her response?

Stephanie Soo (3:17)

She said no.

And at some point in time, did she tell you that this was the first time she was having these thoughts? I don't know if she mentioned it was her first time or not. I just remember her saying she had them.

Patrick's mom, Sue Clancy, more on her later as well, is also a nurse. She works at South Shore Hospital. So this is again, the same hospital. The same one? Yeah, she is. So Lindsay is, well, she was a nurse, a labor and delivery nurse at Mass General, but she gets taken to South Shore and Sue Clancy works at South Shore in labor and delivery. And she recommends Lindsay to see a woman named Julie Paul. Julie Paul works at South Shore. She's a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who can prescribe. She is board certified. And this alone- Wait, hold on.

Stephanie Soo (4:01)

This is so crazy.

Stephanie Soo (4:02)

Yeah.

Stephanie Soo (4:03)

Patrick's mom is a delivery nurse?

Stephanie Soo (4:06)

Labor and delivery nurse. And his new wife is also, she is in the scenario. So there's just like a lot of-

Whoa. Yeah.

Stephanie Soo (4:15)

She must know, you know, like this is kind of her life, dealing with women that's-

Stephanie Soo (4:20)

Wow. Dealing with people who give birth, yes.

Stephanie Soo (4:22)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Stephanie Soo (4:23)

Wow. So she recommends her to see Julie Paul. And she is a board certified nurse practitioner. This has spawned a new debate. Like I'm telling you, every single fucking thing that we talk about is a freaking debate online. And it's just so heated. There's now a whole debate on nurse practitioners.