I read the blog for many years. I think she is probably a very nice person and I think we’d probably get along in real life. She clearly loves her kids and Is a good mom. That said, I stopped reading her blog because as her kids got older, it felt very creepy to know so much about them and their medical/educational issues. (I think there’s a big difference between a post talking about your baby not sleeping well, an one talking about your older child’s social challenges...).

I really hope she’s okay but I think this post was in very poor judgement. Suicide is unlike other health conditions, in that talking about it in the wrong way can actually contribute to its spread. I think her post is irresponsible and, if her judgement is so impaired that she doesn’t see that, maybe her husband should talk to her about taking it down.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

If she was blogging about her cancer, I'd still have concerns about whether her child, identified with full facial video, is old enough to consent to having their 7th birthday party made part of a post about relapse.

Then your issue is with all mommy blogs, because most of them identify their kids and talk about every poop and pee.

Read the thread. That has been repeatedly said. These children are not consenting to have their life exploited online.

No child consents to have their life online. Yet nearly every parent I know puts pictures of their kids on Facebook, Instagram etc. There are a gazillion mommy bloggers. Your issue seems to be that her kids shouldn't be seen online with a mom who made the mistake of attempting suicide.

Nope. Again, read the thread.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

If she was blogging about her cancer, I'd still have concerns about whether her child, identified with full facial video, is old enough to consent to having their 7th birthday party made part of a post about relapse.

Then your issue is with all mommy blogs, because most of them identify their kids and talk about every poop and pee.

Read the thread. That has been repeatedly said. These children are not consenting to have their life exploited online.

No child consents to have their life online. Yet nearly every parent I know puts pictures of their kids on Facebook, Instagram etc. There are a gazillion mommy bloggers. Your issue seems to be that her kids shouldn't be seen online with a mom who made the mistake of attempting suicide.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

If she was blogging about her cancer, I'd still have concerns about whether her child, identified with full facial video, is old enough to consent to having their 7th birthday party made part of a post about relapse.

Relapse of what? She's not an alcoholic.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

If she was blogging about her cancer, I'd still have concerns about whether her child, identified with full facial video, is old enough to consent to having their 7th birthday party made part of a post about relapse.

Then your issue is with all mommy blogs, because most of them identify their kids and talk about every poop and pee.

Read the thread. That has been repeatedly said. These children are not consenting to have their life exploited online.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

If she was blogging about her cancer, I'd still have concerns about whether her child, identified with full facial video, is old enough to consent to having their 7th birthday party made part of a post about relapse.

Then your issue is with all mommy blogs, because most of them identify their kids and talk about every poop and pee.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's the exploitation of her children (during what will probably be one of the worst times of their childhood, upon later reflection) that has people judging. Rightly so.

Nobody is judging outside of this thread. Real people don't act like they are in this thread.

I think it's the exploitation of her children (during what will probably be one of the worst times of their childhood, upon later reflection) that has people judging. Rightly so.

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Anonymous wrote:Geez people, of course her tone is “off”, she’s in the midst of the worst kind of mental health crisis, and one that many people don’t survive. Was she supposed to come back a week later with pitch perfect delivery in order to garner minimal cynical speculation? You don’t bounce back from this sort of mental break in a few days. And to be back home already, she’s clearly not getting the treatment she needs at the moment, probably because it’s not available or is impossibly costly - because our mental health system is shit.

She was supposed to not blog but to work on herself.

Maybe reaching out to her online community is a form of working on herself? I'm not sure how you became the arbiter of how people are supposed to act when they have a mental breakdown.

Anonymous wrote:Geez people, of course her tone is “off”, she’s in the midst of the worst kind of mental health crisis, and one that many people don’t survive. Was she supposed to come back a week later with pitch perfect delivery in order to garner minimal cynical speculation? You don’t bounce back from this sort of mental break in a few days. And to be back home already, she’s clearly not getting the treatment she needs at the moment, probably because it’s not available or is impossibly costly - because our mental health system is shit.

She was supposed to not blog but to work on herself.

Anonymous wrote:Geez people, of course her tone is “off”, she’s in the midst of the worst kind of mental health crisis, and one that many people don’t survive. Was she supposed to come back a week later with pitch perfect delivery in order to garner minimal cynical speculation? You don’t bounce back from this sort of mental break in a few days. And to be back home already, she’s clearly not getting the treatment she needs at the moment, probably because it’s not available or is impossibly costly - because our mental health system is shit.

All of this. And as people who aren’t in the midst of a mental health crisis, none of you naysayers and critics can even begin to understand the mindset she is currently in.

Geez people, of course her tone is “off”, she’s in the midst of the worst kind of mental health crisis, and one that many people don’t survive. Was she supposed to come back a week later with pitch perfect delivery in order to garner minimal cynical speculation? You don’t bounce back from this sort of mental break in a few days. And to be back home already, she’s clearly not getting the treatment she needs at the moment, probably because it’s not available or is impossibly costly - because our mental health system is shit.

I'm a long time reader, since my first pregnancy (pregnancy calendar!), and I was so sad to see this. I really enjoy following her and her family and seeing what they're up to, and have drawn inspiration and advice from various of her adventures in parenting. I'm hoping for the best for her.

The flip side is that if I'm being completely honest, there's a voyeurish piece of me when I read her public mental health-related disclosures. She probably should be less public with all of this for her family's sake.

There's also a piece of me that makes me want to shake her and tell her to get it together when I think of what her husband and boys must be going through right now. I know that's not PC on suicide, but it just makes me so sad for them (and for her!). This really threw me for a loop today, gotta be honest.

Anonymous wrote: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.

If she was blogging about her cancer, I'd still have concerns about whether her child, identified with full facial video, is old enough to consent to having their 7th birthday party made part of a post about relapse.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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).