![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/what-a-difference-couldve-been-made-had-sinead-oconnor-been-offered-support/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Sinead-final-video-1.jpg&description=The outpouring of emotion around Sinead's death is prompting a conversation - she often spoke truths which were otherwise brushed under the carpet, but she wasn't supported For a change, I will be one voice of many many voices when it comes to this issue. Last week, Sinead O'Connor died. She spoke for years about her mental health distress. Those who knew her best are already speaking of the impacts of mental health distress upon her life in their tributes and eulogies. Mental health distress is a disability. Mental health distress is still a taboo. It's a hidden disability. Even when we talk about it out loud, there is still such stigma attached to it. As a society, we are prone to toxic positivity. We say things to each other like: never mind, worse things happen at sea. Tomorrow will be brighter. Chin up. As if simply lifting your head higher somehow makes it all better. The outpouring of emotion, and especially anger, around the death of Sinead O'Connor is prompting an international conversation. She often spoke truths which were otherwise brushed under the carpet. She wasn't supported. The music industry vilified her. Society vilified her. Famous people vilified her. Joe Pesci famously said he "would have slapped" her for standing up against child abuse within the Catholic church. Miley Cyrus responded to an open letter from Sinead praising her talents and saying she didn't have to sexualise her music to sell it with retweets of tweets about mental health distress that Sinead had posted two years previously when she was actively seeking support for being in a bad place. It was clear for decades that Sinead really struggled with mental health distress. She spoke about it often - a rare voice on the topic at times when it was completely taboo to talk about it, and when she knew that she would get more flack for going public about it than for staying quiet. Because she knew the importance of destigmatising it. She was an advocate for and ally of so many groups who){kind=link}
The outpouring of emotion around Sinead’s death is prompting a conversation – she often spoke truths which were otherwise brushed under the carpet, but she wasn’t supported
For a change, I will be one voice of many many voices when it comes to this issue. Last week, Sinead O’Connor died.
She spoke for years about her mental health distress. Those who knew her best are already speaking of the impacts of mental health distress upon her life in their tributes and eulogies. Mental health distress is a disability. Mental health distress is still a taboo. It’s a hidden disability. Even when we talk about it out loud, there is still such stigma attached to it. As a society, we are prone to toxic positivity. We say things to each other like: never mind, worse things happen at sea. Tomorrow will be brighter. Chin up. As if simply lifting your head higher somehow makes it all better.
The outpouring of emotion, and especially anger, around the death of Sinead O’Connor is prompting an international conversation. She often spoke truths which were otherwise brushed under the carpet. She wasn’t supported. The music industry vilified her. Society vilified her. Famous people vilified her. Joe Pesci famously said he “would have slapped” her for standing up against child abuse within the Catholic church. Miley Cyrus responded to an open letter from Sinead praising her talents and saying she didn’t have to sexualise her music to sell it with retweets of tweets about mental health distress that Sinead had posted two years previously when she was actively seeking support for being in a bad place.
It was clear for decades that Sinead really struggled with mental health distress. She spoke about it often – a rare voice on the topic at times when it was completely taboo to talk about it, and when she knew that she would get more flack for going public about it than for staying quiet. Because she knew the importance of destigmatising it.