Popular area "mom blogger" attempted suicide

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just because someone attends a pride parade with their family does not make them bisexual. A lot of people attend those parades to support their LGBT friends and family. It doesn't make you LGBT yourself. Some of you are too dim to be reading blogs. Really dim.

Did you read her IG? The comments there certainly made it seem that she was coming out as bi. It wasn't on her blog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BPD is a complicated disorder that could never be diagnosed through a blog or an instagram page. Maybe she does, but you can not tell through self-selected anecdotes about her life.

+1 All these self-proclaimed experts on this listserv should let the poor woman tell her story without armchair diagnosing her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just because someone attends a pride parade with their family does not make them bisexual. A lot of people attend those parades to support their LGBT friends and family. It doesn't make you LGBT yourself. Some of you are too dim to be reading blogs. Really dim.

Picture was of her wearing two pins that said "I love Pro Choice Boys" and "I love pro choice girls" And the caption said "Since I'm being all brave, open and honest and shit." Pretty sure she is saying she's bi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just because someone attends a pride parade with their family does not make them bisexual. A lot of people attend those parades to support their LGBT friends and family. It doesn't make you LGBT yourself. Some of you are too dim to be reading blogs. Really dim.

Picture was of her wearing two pins that said "I love Pro Choice Boys" and "I love pro choice girls" And the caption said "Since I'm being all brave, open and honest and shit." Pretty sure she is saying she's bi.

Plus comments include ones like "Welcome to the family" and the like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just because someone attends a pride parade with their family does not make them bisexual. A lot of people attend those parades to support their LGBT friends and family. It doesn't make you LGBT yourself. Some of you are too dim to be reading blogs. Really dim.

Picture was of her wearing two pins that said "I love Pro Choice Boys" and "I love pro choice girls" And the caption said "Since I'm being all brave, open and honest and shit." Pretty sure she is saying she's bi.

DP. That's not how I read it.

She's pretty direct in her blog. I'll stick with the stuff that she explicitly says.

[Anonymous]

Just because someone attends a pride parade with their family does not make them bisexual. A lot of people attend those parades to support their LGBT friends and family. It doesn't make you LGBT yourself. Some of you are too dim to be reading blogs. Really dim.

Dim? If you dont read it as she is coming out as bisexual, I would say that you are dumb, not dim and cannot pick up on simple context clues

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad she is ok but how scary is this! She celebrated her youngest son's 7th birthday the day before and the day of the attempt...and everything seemed fine. She has been open about her struggles with depression and anxiety but it never seemed to be this serious. My thoughts are with you Amy!

http://www.amalah.com/amalah/2018/06/where-i-almost-went.html

Get a life

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BPD is a complicated disorder that could never be diagnosed through a blog or an instagram page. Maybe she does, but you can not tell through self-selected anecdotes about her life.

+1 All these self-proclaimed experts on this listserv should let the poor woman tell her story without armchair diagnosing her.

Obviously no one can give an official diagnosis except her doctor following an examination. What people can do, however, is think critically about signs that she is displaying and say what they think is going on. If even her own telling of events shows strong signs of BPD then that's pretty indicative of what's going on. I can't imagine a person without BPD telling their own story and painting themselves as being wildly borderline unless they actually are. No one wants to tell a story where they appear impulsive, self destructive, attention seeking etc etc etc. However, these traits are coming through loud and ridiculously clear. Also, bonus, a lot of borderlines don't even know they're borderline because it's often counter productive to tell the patient the diagnosis so doctors keep it from them. Instead they are told that they're depressed or that they have anxiety or whatever else. So they get admitted because they're "oh so super unwell and need help desperately" when in reality the docs just don't want to send them home, cause them to feel rejected, and then spark a more serious suicide attempt. I've seen borderlines admitted for months and months just because they've got the doctors by the balls with their threats of suicide. It's incredibly frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BPD is a complicated disorder that could never be diagnosed through a blog or an instagram page. Maybe she does, but you can not tell through self-selected anecdotes about her life.

+1 All these self-proclaimed experts on this listserv should let the poor woman tell her story without armchair diagnosing her.

Obviously no one can give an official diagnosis except her doctor following an examination. What people can do, however, is think critically about signs that she is displaying and say what they think is going on. If even her own telling of events shows strong signs of BPD then that's pretty indicative of what's going on. I can't imagine a person without BPD telling their own story and painting themselves as being wildly borderline unless they actually are. No one wants to tell a story where they appear impulsive, self destructive, attention seeking etc etc etc. However, these traits are coming through loud and ridiculously clear. Also, bonus, a lot of borderlines don't even know they're borderline because it's often counter productive to tell the patient the diagnosis so doctors keep it from them. Instead they are told that they're depressed or that they have anxiety or whatever else. So they get admitted because they're "oh so super unwell and need help desperately" when in reality the docs just don't want to send them home, cause them to feel rejected, and then spark a more serious suicide attempt. I've seen borderlines admitted for months and months just because they've got the doctors by the balls with their threats of suicide. It's incredibly frustrating.

Oh please. You don't even know her. Neither do I, but I don't get off on trying to diagnose her. Get a life.

[Anonymous]

I'm not "getting off" on this, as hard as that may be to believe. Recognizing classic signs of borderline personality disorder doesn't arouse me in the slightest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BPD is a complicated disorder that could never be diagnosed through a blog or an instagram page. Maybe she does, but you can not tell through self-selected anecdotes about her life.

+1 All these self-proclaimed experts on this listserv should let the poor woman tell her story without armchair diagnosing her.

Obviously no one can give an official diagnosis except her doctor following an examination. What people can do, however, is think critically about signs that she is displaying and say what they think is going on. If even her own telling of events shows strong signs of BPD then that's pretty indicative of what's going on. I can't imagine a person without BPD telling their own story and painting themselves as being wildly borderline unless they actually are. No one wants to tell a story where they appear impulsive, self destructive, attention seeking etc etc etc. However, these traits are coming through loud and ridiculously clear. Also, bonus, a lot of borderlines don't even know they're borderline because it's often counter productive to tell the patient the diagnosis so doctors keep it from them. Instead they are told that they're depressed or that they have anxiety or whatever else. So they get admitted because they're "oh so super unwell and need help desperately" when in reality the docs just don't want to send them home, cause them to feel rejected, and then spark a more serious suicide attempt. I've seen borderlines admitted for months and months just because they've got the doctors by the balls with their threats of suicide. It's incredibly frustrating.

Great analysis. No one who has dealt with a BPD person at length can miss the signs in this nutty blogger’s post.

[Anonymous]

What is she depressed and anxious about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is she depressed and anxious about?

Life. What people are usually depressed and anxious about.

[Anonymous]

"I tried to kill myself last week but I'm totally fine now, nbd!" It's really strange. I know she doesn't like to dwell on depressing topics too much on her blog, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what the real deal is here. Drunken hissy fit for husband's attention gone horribly wrong, maybe? Alcoholism? Is she actually a danger to herself? Because if so, she shouldn't just be right back to her regular life. Who knows though, maybe she has someone helping with the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"I tried to kill myself last week but I'm totally fine now, nbd!" It's really strange. I know she doesn't like to dwell on depressing topics too much on her blog, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what the real deal is here. Drunken hissy fit for husband's attention gone horribly wrong, maybe? Alcoholism? Is she actually a danger to herself? Because if so, she shouldn't just be right back to her regular life. Who knows though, maybe she has someone helping with the kids.

No where in her blog does she classify her suicide attempt as no big deal. In fact, if you take time to read it, she says she belongs with all the people in the psych ward where she was sent, despite her husband's claim that she didn't belong there. The way she writes is sort of glib, but there's a lot of pain in what she's writing, and in my opinion, she's putting sunlight on a very difficult issue in a hope that people might be helped by it (and I think people will be watching her like a hawk for future suicide attempts thanks to her transparency, which is also a good thing.)