Emily Zeller

Emily Zeller Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist for residents of Pennsylvania, Illinois & Ohio. Emily Zeller, LMFT, PMH-C

08/25/2026

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“but she was still functioning.”i keep hearing that sentence about lindsay clancy. everywhere. she made lunch that day. ...
08/24/2026

“but she was still functioning.”

i keep hearing that sentence about lindsay clancy. everywhere. she made lunch that day. they built a snowman. providers testified she did not look like an emergency. as if lunch getting made settles the question.

i told people i was tired once. they believed me. the laundry was done, the baby was fed, and i was not okay. functioning is not a vital sign. for the capable ones it’s a habit, and it’s the last thing to go. lindsay was a labor and delivery nurse. doing the tasks was who she had always been.

postpartum psychosis happens in 1 to 2 of every 1,000 births and it is not what the movies show you. it moves in waves. lucid at 2pm, gone by 2am. delusions don’t feel crazy, they feel true. and in between waves, she makes lunch.

what people who love a struggling mother need to know: a brain that is sick enough cannot always tell that it is sick. insight is one of the first things these illnesses take. so “she would tell me if it got bad” is not a safety plan. lindsay did tell people. she kept walking in still functioning.

her safety could never rest on her alone. nobody’s can. we don’t ask that of anyone with any other illness.

slides 11 and 12 are for the people around her. slide 14 is the one to save before you need it.

and if you’re the one still doing the dishes while reading this: you don’t have to fall apart to deserve care. you’re allowed to get help while you’re still holding it together.

comment ADVOCATE and i’ll DM you the advocate plan, free. scripts, warning signs, and the one page that makes sure someone is holding the whole picture of you.

stop waiting for her to stop functioning. help her while she’s still standing.

in it with you 🫶

PSI: call or text 1-800-944-4773
maternal mental health hotline: 1-833-852-6262, 24/7
988 for crisis, call or text

(not deciding guilt. the jury has evidence i don’t. i’m reading testimony on the record.)

08/23/2026

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just checking in, sis 🤍🤍🤍
08/22/2026

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Lindsay Clancy’s mother took the stand Monday. Her sister followed. Then her former mother-in-law, a labor and delivery ...
08/20/2026

Lindsay Clancy’s mother took the stand Monday. Her sister followed. Then her former mother-in-law, a labor and delivery nurse, the grandmother of the three children, testified in Lindsay’s defense and said Lindsay came to her begging for help.

Her family knew.

In October 2022, Lindsay texted her mom: “Mom, will you please come up and stay with me for a bit? I’m really sick. Something is wrong.” In December, in her own kitchen, she told her mother and her husband she was having thoughts of harming her children. Her sister testified that by late December she’d had suicidal thoughts every day for a month.

And before anything else is said: three children are dead. Whatever the verdict, this is an absolute tragedy. This family will carry what they did and did not do for the rest of their lives. They deserve our compassion, not our judgmental comment sections.

Ask the honest question: would you have known? Would you have known the sentence in the kitchen was a medical emergency and not a confession? Nobody teaches a family what to do with that sentence. There is no class for that kitchen. Even the nurse in the family could not make the system hold her.

I’m a therapist with a perinatal mental health certification through Postpartum Support International. Slides 10 through 12 provide suggestions of what to say and who to call. The difference between scary thoughts that horrify her and thoughts that stop feeling wrong. And please remember: this illness comes and goes. Lucid at 2pm, gone by 2am. Believe the worst hour, not the best one.

Telling is step one. The people who hear it need instructions and the system needs way more support in place.

Comment ADVOCATE and I’ll DM you The Advocate Plan, free: the scripts, the warning signs, and the one page that makes sure someone is holding the whole picture.

Compassion for this family. Change for the next one.

in it with you 🫶

PSI: call or text 1-800-944-4773
Maternal Mental Health Hotline: 1-833-852-6262, 24/7
988 for crisis, call or text

(Not deciding guilt. The jury has evidence I don’t. I’m reading testimony on the record.)

08/19/2026

optional extras: eldest daughter and a full time job 😮‍💨

it’s giving if we don’t laugh we’ll cry.

number 6 is the one I’m actually working on. I hinted at something last week and then went quiet when nobody guessed, which is a 39 year old woman running a script she wrote at seven.

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08/18/2026

The gift is that she said it out loud. She sat across from Jay Shetty and named the part most mothers only think.

That she didn’t understand what was happening to her. That she loved her daughter and still couldn’t feel the connection everyone promised. That she assumed the problem was her, so she coped in the ways that don’t look like asking for help.

The warning is that she carried it for a long time without a name for it, and nobody around her was assigned to notice. That happens to women who are nowhere near famous, every day, in rooms full of people whose job it was to catch it.

I don’t know anything about her death that you don’t, and I’m not going to speculate. What I know is what she gave while she was here, which was language. A name for something a lot of women are carrying without one.

Because the capable ones get missed. You describe your symptoms clearly and calmly and everyone in the room relaxes. Being articulate is not the same as being okay.

If that is you right now, don’t wait for someone to notice. Tell one person today, in plain words, that you are not okay.

in it with you 🫶

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PSI, 1-800-944-4773

08/18/2026

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