Sinead O'Connor has been tweeting about her wish to committ sucicde. "Psychiatrist says I'm a bad mum and mental for talking so openly about sex in public. I wish suicide wud ( kill me. I want to go to heaven so bad. Have for yrs ( But I don't wanna abandon my kids. If I cud (sic) die without them knowing I did it myself I wud.
"I'm so tired. 24 yrs of being treated like a crazy person. Can't manage any more. If any1 knows how I can kill myself without my kids finding out I did it deliberately pls tell me."
I have a suicidal streak myself and it is mainly the numbers (if I love a real long life, that's 100 years versus ETERNITY).
As for Sinead, I am a huge fan. I think she is a really gifted woman, a great singer and a great songwriter. Honestly, she has released an album I haven't loved and I've seen her live many times (once with Van Morrison at the Guinness Fleagh on Randall's Island -I'll never for get it). Nobody who matters think's she is crazy. She isn't. It is tough being an outspoken woman in the center of the storm, depression is natural.
But O'Connor is very well loved for her voice, her bravery, her strange trajectory of a career. It is hard to remember, perhaps she doesn't care to remember, but she doesn't live in a vacuum of her own creating. People she doesn't know love her and care for her. As for being a bad Mom… get a different psychiatrist.
You'll make it through, kid. Heaven can wait another 50 years.