Sinead O'Connor says menopause caused her mental break a few years ago

Ok, how does explain her craziness prior to menopause? 🤔

Also, I'm imagining Sinead O'Connor dressed up as a candy striper, screaming about the pope to some veteran with PTSD.

I thought it had to do with "The Difficult Brown."

she may be crazy, but hormones control our lives much more than we know. and intestinal biota, from the sound of things.

my female family members have all warned me of the evils of the "men-o-pause". you can spend years with hot flashes, brain fog and all kinds of shit.

hopefully you come out of that with your sanity intact.

just look at how badly some people get PMS. and i don't mean to rack up any crazy behavior to that, but having experienced that personally, it is intense. luckily it lasts a day or two per month at most, not years.

If she's trying to tour successfully, I can see why she'd lie about it. She wants to be seen as reliable.

First Fiona Apple and now her, it's mentally ill '90s relic week!

Still love her first 2 albums - so if she comes back and seems OK, I'm cool with her.

She's always been a bit strident, which really isn't effective in the long run in terms of winning people over.

I wish the best for her - sincerely. And I also hope she can still sing - she should have enough material for a new album.

Oh right, bipolar disorder has nothing to do with it.

How did she get insured for a tour?

Did she ever get the difficult brown?

In San Francisco, I'd imagine.

She can't still sing R7. She's nothing much to watch or listen to perform. Why can't people let their youthful favorites go? Sinead O'Connor never was much of a singer. She started that broken vowel crap singing that so many not great female singers adopted for 20 years. If you want a great singer from that time and place, choose Annie Lennox.

Fuck off Sinead.

Menopause can actually cause episodes if you have bipolar, but drinking, taking drugs and lying about it definitely makes more of an impact.

Having a hyerectomy is the most radical way for the menopause to kick off. Your entire hormonal balance is being wrecked literally from one day to the other.

That being said, Sinead is a fucking lunatic attention whore and needs to shut the fuck up.

So she went on for Phil then what op. Pray continue. Curious how she got to this successful tour.

[quote]a radical hysterectomy to relieve O’Connor’s chronic endometriosis. But the procedure pushed her into premature menopause, which went undiagnosed and unmedicated,

I'm a woman and had surgery for endometriosis when I was in my 30s. I went through menopause (unmedicated) in my 50s. None of that pushed me into depression BUT we're all different. I know a few women who developed anxiety during menopause but that's all I know about it.

You could have just looked it up, OP. I don't know why everyone on Datalounge is scared shitless of Google, but maybe try to get over it and look shit up once in a while?

There is a link between the hormonal changes of menopause and mental illness.

[quote]Menopause can actually cause episodes if you have bipolar, but drinking, taking drugs and lying about it definitely makes more of an impact.

It was very likely all of the above and then some. But she could have had a bipolar episode because of hormonal fluctuations, then self-medicated with alcohol and made it worse, rather than it being entirely her own fault.

Simply fascinating to this gay man.

R17 Do you honestly believe any medical question using Google? I would trust the opinion of Dlers before I'd trust any of those shit ads linked to Google.

"Why Don't You Do Right?" by Sinéad O'Connor is on the March 1994 Gap In-Store Playlist!

[quote] You could have just looked it up, OP. I don't know why everyone on Datalounge is scared shitless of Google, but maybe try to get over it and look shit up once in a while?

R17 Why come to a chat or discussion forum then? One can stay by yourself googling, oh courageous one.

Hysterectomies don't cause menopause, removal of the ovaries causes menopause.

From your link, R17:

[quote]Mood shifts during perimenopause and at menopause are most often mild... But when it comes to major depression (the more severe form of clinical depression), the link to female hormone changes is not clear.... The vast majority of women who develop significant mood issues during perimenopause have had them in the past. It's relatively rare for someone with no history of depression or anxiety to suddenly develop a severe case of it at menopause"

She had a pretty clear mental break (a New Jersey Travelodge!) and blaming it on premature menopause isn't really credible. It seems to me that she's always had problems with mental illness but doesn't want to admit it.

Oh and R11 is wack. Sinead O'Connor is (or was) a far more skilled and impressive singer than Annie Lennox, who sounds good but belts out every single lyric with the exact same overhyped drama (and thinks it's soul). There's more to singing than that.

OP is the absolute worst ever.

We knew.

For anyone who wants to see the entire article not behind a paywall, click on the link at R25

R23 A radical hysterectomy means that the ovaries were removed too, which is what O'Connor had.

Everyone knows that a rad hysterectomy puts a woman into instant menopause. Some know that the hormonal depletions and imbalance of menopause can do more damage than just hot flashes and insomnia. But only Sinead can come up with THAT for the 18th excuse for why she can't sing, is a bad mother, goes nuts, marries strangers, takes money from Dr. Phil, fucks strangers on street corners. Bitch can't sing. Don't buy the bullshit. She works at nothing. Non compliant. Sinead cain ain ain ai aeeooWWee ain een ttT. SING. Periodt!