Armstrong openly struggled with depression and her boyfriend, Pete Ashdown, revealed she recently relapsed after being sober for 18 months.
“The grief submerged me in tidal waves of pain. For a few hours I found it hard to breathe.”
Armstrong also wrote that she “chose loneliness” and to isolate herself because of “how bad” she felt about herself.She then reflected, “Sobriety was not some mystery I had to solve. It was simply looking at all my wounds and learning how to live with them.”, revealing she began to struggle following the end of her marriage to her ex-husband Jon Armstrong, with whom she shared daughters Leta Elise and Marlo Iris.
The blogger explained that, two years prior, she enrolled herself in a clinical trial that put her in a chemically induced coma for 15 minutes at a time for 10 sessions.The treatment was meant to approximate brain death as a possible cure for depression.“When you are that desperate, you will try anything. 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.
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