Sinead O’Connor hospitalized for depression by Joyce Chen
19 January 2012
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Sinead O'Connor has checked herself into a treatment facility to aid in her depression, she wrote.
The Irish singer said she's going 'off radar' for a few weeks to seek help
After a rocky start to 2012, Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has finally decided to call in backup and check into a treatment facility for her depression.
"Gonna be off radar for few weeks. But will be back. Worry not," the "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer tweeted Monday.
"Im going to hospital. Treatment for depression. Not at all well," she told her followers. "But they will put me back together quick. ...so will be back..and smiling. Prolly 2 weeks ish."
The singer, 45, got married to then-beau Barry Herridge, 38, in a whirlwind Vegas wedding on Dec. 8, but has since split and reunited with the drug counselor several times.
"His association with me became something very bad for his life," she wrote on her website after calling quits on the marriage for the second time earlier this month. "And slowly since we were married I became very ill as result of what was done to my husband and i was unable to cope. And became depressed."
O'Connor reached out to her fans for help last week after she realized she was in "danger" without medications for her psychiatric problems, though she struggled against checking herself into a hospital.
"i realise i will be in trouble 4 doing this but.. ireland is a VERY hard place to find help in," she wrote. "So having tried other ways 1st im asking does any1 know a psychiatrist in dublin or wicklow who could urgently see me today please? im really un-well... and in danger."
O'Connor told The Sun earlier this month that she "took an overdose" while in Los Angeles Jan. 5, and had tried to end her life a second time after she was hospitalized for a broken ankle just a few days later.
"Now in Ireland we are also in fear of ever actually verbalizing that we feel suicidal. this is because we will be labelled 'mad' and if you're 'mad', people abuse you," she wrote of difficulties in seeking treatment in her home-country
"I have no desire to hide that I do (have depression). But even if I had the desire to hide it I don't think I could. Because if I cant show it how can I recover?"
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