Was Sinead O'Connor suffering from borderline personality disorder? Singer's life was plagued with mental health issues
DUBLIN, IRELAND: Sinead O'Connor breathed her last at the age of 56, her family members have confirmed. The news comes just a year after the Irish singer's 17-year-old son took his life in January 2022 after escaping hospital while on suicide watch. "It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinead", her family said in a statement, Daily Mail reports. "Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time," the statement read.
Sinead, who changed her name to Shuhada' Sadaqat in 2018 after converting to Islam, was reportedly spending her time between Co Roscommon, Ireland, and London, before her unfortunate death. Although the reason of her death has not yet been revealed, the 'Nothing Compares 2 U' singer's life was plagued with mental health issues that she battled for several years and openly spoke about the physical and sexual abuse she endured at the hands of her mother in her childhood on several occasions.
Was Sinead O'Connor suffering from borderline personality disorder?
Sinead revealed publicly while speaking with Oprah Winfrey in October 2007 that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, four years previously after attempting to take her own life on her 33rd birthday on December 8, 1999.
Sinead had received treatment in a variety of facilities in Ireland and abroad in her last few years. During an in-depth interview with Dave Fanning on RTE 2FM, the singer revealed that she has finally reached a point where she understood her condition following years of incorrect diagnoses. "When you aren’t well and you don’t realise you’re not well you end up burning your bridges a bit so you end up a bit isolated" she explained according to The Sun. "With every illness there is a scale from 0 to 100 and they’ve managed to mathematically work out my situation."
The singer then continued, "I have three mental health conditions. One is borderline personality disorder, that they say is 50% of what’s wrong with me. That’s an illness you can only get from trauma, it is curable, therefore. It is co-diagnosed with another condition which is called complex post-traumatic stress disorder and I’m 40% suffering from chronic post-traumatic stress disorder, and ten percent bipolar. So let’s just be clear that that’s what going on because I guess mental health is too loose a label.”
Sinead converted to Islam in 2018
The Irish singer announced her conversion to Islam in 2018 and said that her name has changed to Shuhada’ Davitt. “This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim,” she wrote on Twitter on October 19 of that year. “This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey. All scripture study leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant.” The singer added, “I will be given (another) new name. It will be Shuhada’.”
