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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just goes to show the stigma about mental illness is alive and well. If she was a blogger who wrote about her struggles with cancer or a physical handicap, we'd hail her as a brave hero. If she shares a mental breakdown, she's vile and an attention whore.[/quote]

I've read about and heard plenty of horror stories - people faking cancer for years, sometimes very elaborately (or worse, the Mauchausen's by proxy people who poison their own kids for sympathy for themselves) for money/attention, faking pregnancies, faking miscarriages.  This lady rings plenty of warning bells for weird and possibly fake/exaggerated.  I don't save my skepticism for people like this blogger.[/quote]
I'm the world's biggest skeptic and after reading this blog for years, it just isn't interesting enough to be faked. People who fake it make grand claims in order to gain your sympathy (and sometimes your money). She just doesn't do that. A couple of her kids do have some learning issues, but she doesn't make a big deal out of it except to mention some methods that have helped. She doesn't go on wildly about health problems for herself or her kids. She posts pictures of her dog and cats. She's only posted a few times very recently about her struggles with anxiety and depression. No cancer. No sick kids. No money problems (that she has mentioned). She notes when a post is sponsored by a product so you know when you are reading a commercial. It just doesn't ring as fake at all. She's just a writer who writes. She also takes contract jobs in the marketing field (which adds to her reputation as being boring). [/quote]

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