Sinead O'Connor was found by law enforcement in a Dublin hotel after posting threatening messages on Facebook, purporting to be in the act of committing suicide via overdose.

The singer wrote: "I have taken an overdose," O'Connor wrote. "There is no other way to get respect. I am not at home, I'm at a hotel, somewhere in Ireland, under another name If I wasn't posting this, my kids and family wouldn't even find out. Was dead for another fortnight since none of them bother their hole with me for a minute. I could have been dead here for weeks already and they'd never have known."

"There is only so much any woman can be expected to bear," the 48-year-old wrote and then listed family members she said betrayed her. She accused her family of "appalling cruelty" and mentioned her hysterectomy and a custody battle against two of her ex-husbands over her youngest children, Shane Lunny, 11, and Yeshua Bonadio, 8.

On Friday, the singer posted a message about needing a job and saying that she could "barely survive."

O'Connor also attempted suicide in 2011 and was diagnosed as bipolar in 2003.