Popular area "mom blogger" attempted suicide

[Anonymous]

It doesn't appear that she is currently working her non-blog job. Even if she is, who are you to decide that she's money grabbing rather than she has bills to pay and pre-existing contracts to comply with? It's going out of your way to judge someone who's already in a very bad place.

[Anonymous]

NP. I don't judge her for going back to sponsored posts. However, I read her blog for years before I decided I couldn't participate further in feeding what was obvious to me even several years ago was an unhealthy situation. I really wish she would stop blogging and focus on healing, and yes that will mean giving up sponsored posts.

[Anonymous]

Once again, if you read the blog you'll see that she specifically said she was going to fulfill her previous obligations to write some sponsored posts. She does not have a regular job but does freelance and contract work in marketing.

[Anonymous]

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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.)

DP. It doesn't seem like she has any sort of therapy, monitoring, anything.

You don’t seem to be reading her blog. Her June 28 post is all about the medications she’s taking, psychiatrist visits, group therapy and about be fact that her husband has hidden all the pills in the house in a safe place.

Er, sorry, didn't read her latest post. After reading all of the flippant posts about the hospital, the psych ward, and so on, I gave up. Especially the hundreds of gushing, supportive comments.

Really? More drugs will cure her? Seems unlikely.

Yes, why bother reading and making an informed opinion when it's easier to post nasty stuff and kick a suicidal woman when she's down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once again, if you read the blog you'll see that she specifically said she was going to fulfill her previous obligations to write some sponsored posts. She does not have a regular job but does freelance and contract work in marketing.

I went and read it. But I think the blog is likely contributing to her mental health issues. I stopped reading her blog years ago because I was so uncomfortable, and honestly because I worried. I felt like I was getting entertained by someone's real health issues and it felt wrong.