The Legacy of Heather Armstrong: From Motherhood Truths to Internet Shaping.

Heather Armstrong, a popular mommy blogger who wrote about parenting, life, and depression, passed away this week. Her book, The Valedictorian of Being Dead, details the medicalized model of mental health “care” that could only portend her tragic, inevitable end. The tragedy of her death is that no one really knows why she took her own life, but the drug manufacturers agree that the same medications were given to her to create “hope,” but instead, they perched her on that precarious “suicide” ledge more often than she cared to remember. Armstrong’s book stands as a posthumous testimony of the total failure of American psychiatry.