Irish singer and musician Sinead O'Connor reportedly passed away at 56 years old on Jul. 26, 2023.
As of this writing, Sinead O'Connor's cause of death hasn't been entirely specified but The Daily Mail confirmed that it was attributed to her long battle with her mental health condition.
Sinead O'Connor Health Timeline
As early as 2007, Sinead O'Connor had been fighting to destigmatize mental illness in the media. On October 2007, she disclosed to Oprah Winfrey that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. In fact, she was diagnosed with the debilitating illness in 2004.
She even confessed to attempting suicide on her 33rd birthday on Dec. 8, 1999. However, In 2014, in another episode of Oprah, she admitted that when she sought three different doctors, she was told that she was not bipolar.
According to NBC Philadelphia, Sinead O'Connor's mental health condition worsened when she was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder.
Aside from suffering these mental health struggles, Sinead O'Connor's physical health also took a toll.
In August 2015, she underwent a hysterectomy after suffering gynecological problems in the past years before that. For those who do not know, a hysterectomy is a surgical operation to remove all or part of the uterus.
More so, Sinead O'Connor blamed the hospital at the time because it refused to administer hormonal replacement therapy, which she attributed to being the reason for her mental health issue arising in the coming years.
"I was flung into surgical menopause. Hormones were everywhere. I became very suicidal. I was a basket case," she told Dr. Phil in 2017, as quoted by USA Today.
In the same year, O'Connor painstakingly detailed her grief and loneliness in a 12-minute video on Facebook about losing custody of her 13-year-old son, Shane. (via The Telegraph)
"I'm all by myself. And there's absolutely nobody in my life except my doctor, my psychiatrist - the sweetest man on earth, who says I'm his hero - and that's about the only f****** thing keeping me alive at the moment, the fact that I'm his b***** hero... and that's kind of pathetic," she said at the time. However, in 2022, Shane passed away because of suicide.
In an interview with the Tommy Tiernan Show in 2020, she also revealed that she has a fear of open spaces or agoraphobia, which prompts her refusal to go out and socialize.
In 2021, Sinead O'Connor postponed her 2021 tour as she entered a treatment program for trauma and addiction, The Guardian reported. She had been a user of marijuana for more than three decades, as well as "a drug other than weed" which she did not specify.
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