Don’t do that. They should get jobs in high school. In college they really need to focus.

Thanks! I’m fine but only because I found a way to keep my distance. As long as I kept getting sucked back in, I kept being pretty self-destructive. So it’s pretty awful to think that people might be counseling these kids to keep getting tangled up with their mom.

Thanks. I can tell you that in my experience with my mother, people on the outside think she is fine. My father sued for custody 11 times and lost every single time. She convinced me over the years that he was no less than a serial killer, rapist and child molester, and repeated more times than I can remember that he…

What you say is fair for someone to say, from the outside looking in. What I can tell you as the daughter of someone with BPD, is that for the children, what you say doesn’t matter. When your mom is sick and cruel, you don’t come into the world understanding that. You think she’s normal, you think her behavior towards…

That’s a job for professionals, not innocent children who have grown up with her and have, as a result of her abusive behavior, their own psychic wounds to treat. If as adults they choose to help her out that’s great but the fact is Sinead O’Connor has had a lot of help for her psychological issues, and she is still…

Yeah it is so hard to read people say “oh they’re mentally ill? imagine their distress!!” Ugh. Like clarity of mind makes it easy to absorb cruelty or something. Thank god for adulthood and the autonomy it gives us.

Fathers. 2 different people. And the elder 2 children and their fathers are also estranged. That’s 8 people, 6 of whom are old enough to make their own call, and have decided to keep their distance. I suppose it’s possible that they are all heartless assholes but it’s also possible that she is psychologically abusive…

I don’t know, obviously, but the picture that this article, her facebook post, and the story you posted paints is this: her ex and she fought over custody and ultimately had joint custody of the daughter they raised. Her ex became of vocal proponent of fathers’ rights, and she wrote him a letter saying his stance on…

Read the letter, doesn’t seem to contradict anything I said or implied, nor would I assume the father found it “lovely”. “It’s possible her kids don’t want her dead”? I’d say it’s highly likely that her kids don’t want her dead? And therein lies the cruelty of her writing a suicide note blaming them for her pain? And…

Exactly. And she’s got 4 kids.

yeah same here so as I read this post, the abused kid in me feels absolutely nothing but disgust. Hard to explain to others but this type of thing is just an extension of abuse that has been going on in private day in and day out. That said she obviously needs help, I hope she finds something that works.

TBH she should have left him somewhere where people were immediately on hand. It must have been important for her not to be seen but not a great choice for the baby considering it’s entirely possible for a newborn to go unnoticed for quite a while when noone is looking for it. But yeah, a little baby basket is…

Love Sinead forever but when someone has that many children who won’t speak to them... it tells me that she has put them through an awful lot. I hope she gets the help she needs but this is certainly not their fault.

Of all the spots inside the church she could have chosen to set her baby down she probably chose the nativity scene because nativity scenes include a little baby bassinet for the baby jesus. It’s not rocket science.

kool-aid is one of those things that is inexplicably associated with black people, like fried chicken. I don’t think anybody knows why, and the association itself is not inherently offensive, but it is a stereotype so if someone sees you and thinks you eat a certain way it just goes to show that they are looking at…

Agreed but isn’t it normal to ask for well over what is expected?

Ha my bf kept trying to comfort me and I kept screaming “DO NOT. FUCKING. TOUCH ME!!!!!!” at him. at my friend. at the nurses.

When I was transferred to a hospital during my first birth I had been having contractions every 2 minutes for several hours and they left me in an exam room upon arrival for a REALLY long time, I was screaming so much people were poking their head in to see what was happening. I almost destroyed a monitor. Nurses were…

No, wrong. She was not polite. Someone who has decided firmly in their mind, “I do not want my children to be around gay people”, does not enroll them in anything, let alone a theater group, without checking out the staff beforehand. She sent this note AFTER meeting him and it is therefore a DIRECT response to HIM. In…

advil???? what’s the point