Sinéad O'Connor found safe after posting suicide note on Facebook

Police in Dublin say Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor has been found safe after having posted an apparent suicide note on Facebook.

An officer at the Pearse Street station of An Garda Síochána, Ireland's national police, told the newspaper the Irish Examiner Sunday that the Grammy Award-winner, 48, was "safe and sound" and receiving medical assistance.

Earlier Sunday, the long-troubled singer had posted a long Facebook message saying she had "taken an overdose . . . at a hotel, somewhere in Ireland, under another name."

The seeming suicide note was the culmination of several earlier posts starting this summer. In a since-deleted post in July, she wrote that one of her four children, whom she later identified as her third, son Shane, "has been suffering with a life-threatening medical condition since early March 2015." She later revealed she was scheduled to have a hysterectomy on Aug. 26.

"There is only so much any woman can be expected to bear," she posted Sunday, accusing family members and others -- including Shane's father, musician Donal Lunny, and her eldest child, son Jake, from the first of her four marriages -- of "appalling cruelty."

"If I wasn't posting this, my kids and family wouldn't even find out. . . . Because apparently I'm scum and deserve to be abandoned and treated like [expletive] just when I've had my womb and ovaries chopped out and my child is frighteningly sick. I'm such a rotten horrible mother and Person, that I've been alone. Howling crying for weeks. . . . I don't matter a shred to anyone. . . . Strangers like me," she wrote, evidently referring to fans of her music. "But my family don't value me at all."

O'Connor has spoken candidly of her mental health issues, including suicide attempts, saying as early as 1994 that she was then undergoing treatment at a London psychiatric hospital.