Dooce /Heather Armstrong

[Anonymous]

Sounds like she died?! I’m on a plane and just saw her Insta. What happened!?

https://instagram.com/dooce?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

[Anonymous]

OMG I used to read her 20 years ago. Peeped her insta a few years ago and something seemed off. Still, so very very shocking.

[Anonymous]

Given that she has struggled with depression for many years, I’m afraid of hearing more.

[Anonymous]

RIP

[Anonymous]

Did she die by suicide? She was a tortured soul. I stopped reading her years ago when she went off the rails, but this is sad, she has two teenaged children, I believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Given that she has struggled with depression for many years, I’m afraid of hearing more.

Given her very public struggles over the years, I don't think you necessarily need to hear more to fill in the blanks. Just very sad. Her book about her postpartum experience was pretty significant for me, but this news is not at all surprising, if it is what it sounds like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did she die by suicide? She was a tortured soul. I stopped reading her years ago when she went off the rails, but this is sad, she has two teenaged children, I believe.

I don’t think cause of death is public yet.

[Anonymous]

Oh damn. Her poor girls.

[Anonymous]

Looks like her insta is down but GOMI still has it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like her insta is down but GOMI still has it.

It's still up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like her insta is down but GOMI still has it.

It's still up.

Oops, you're right. My bad.

[Anonymous]

Ugh so sad.

I was so holding out hope she'd right her ship and find stable standing. She has seemed a complete mess in the last few years, so I had to look away and stop following her.

But in 2009? She was incredible. Hilarious, honest, raw and loving. She prepared me for motherhood in ways no one else could have.

I so wish she'd been able to be healthy.

[Anonymous]

Very sad. I stopped following her years ago, though I loved her blog in its heyday. RIP.

[Anonymous]

RIP

[Anonymous]

I went to high school with a girl who's parent had killed themselves and what I learned from three years of being around her is that parents should not kill themselves. It messed her up in so many ways.

Hopefully Leta can take the summer to process and get back to school in the fall. I hope both girls have some sort of peace about this at some point soon. Yes, I'm assuming Heather killed herself.