If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call 911. If you’re thinking about suicide or are worried about a friend or loved one, please contact the Canada Suicide Prevention Service at 1.833.456.4566 toll free or connect via text at 45645, from 4 p.m. I thought my kids deserved to have a happy, healthy mother, and I needed to know that I had tried all options to be that for them.” “When you are that desperate, you will try anything. The Stars Trilogy by Amber Forbes 1 primary work 2 total works Book 1 When Stars Die by Amber Forbes 4. “I was feeling like life was not meant to be lived,” Armstrong told Vox. She was put in a chemically induced coma for 15 minutes at a time for 10 sessions. Her depression grew worse, leading her to enroll in a clinical trial at the University of Utah’s Neuropsychiatric Institute, according to an interview she gave Vox. In 2017, after the unraveling of her marriage, the internet star dubbed “the queen of the mommy bloggers” by The New York Times Magazine took a tumble in popularity. She suffered chronic depression for much of her life, according to her book. Within a year, her audience grew from a few friends to thousands of strangers around the world, she wrote.Īrmstrong was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but left the religion years ago. In her memoir, she described how her blog began as a way to share her thoughts on pop culture with faraway friends.

It was simply looking at all my wounds and learning how to live with them.” She went on: “Sobriety was not some mystery I had to solve. For a few hours I found it hard to breathe.”

The grief submerged me in tidal waves of pain. “There was no one in my life who could possibly comprehend how symbolic a victory it was for me, albeit … one fraught with tears and sobbing so violent that at one point I thought my body would split in two. “On October 8th, 2021 I celebrated six months of sobriety by myself on the floor next to my bed feeling as if I were a wounded animal who wanted to be left alone to die,” Armstrong wrote. One of her posts on Dooce spoke of a previous victory over drinking. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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