Lindsay Clancy: Was She Failed by the Mental Health System? | Dr. Leslie Dobson

About this episode

Everyone is watching the Lindsay Clancy trial. Almost nobody is talking about the four months before it. Roughly thirty prescriptions. At least ten different medications. Seventeen minute telehealth appointments with a psychiatrist who had been practicing on her own for about two months and never met her in person. Two crisis calls that ended with her being told she did not qualify for help because she did not have a plan. Forensic psychologist Dr. Leslie Dobson joins Jasmine to break down what Lindsay Clancy's providers saw, what they wrote down, and what they did with it. They get into the medication spiral and why two bad reactions to antidepressants should have changed the diagnosis,…