Anyone Else Really Bothered By Robin Williams?

[jackrabbit]

So far as I'm concerned, the guy is one of us. He gave money, he gave time, he gave heart, and he didn't have to do any of it. He did more USO shows than pretty-much anyone since Bob Hope. He loved us, so I love him back.

He was also rich as hell, universally loved, and generally an awesome person.

Of course, depression is a bitch. Many (most?) of us suffer from it as well.

Which makes it hard for me. Really f*cking hard.

Dude had everything I've got and more. Well, everything except the fortitude to live for his loved ones.

Anyways, it's bugging me.

I don't usually give a rat-shit about celebrity deaths, but Robin...
I wish to hell that dude had kept keeping-on.

That is all.

Rabbit

 

[JarHed]

No one really knows what battles people are fighting inside themselves. I think everyone here has been there and luckily we're still here. Only someone that's felt that kind of pain can understand why someone would want it to stop. It's always sad when anyone makes that choice.

Smiling on the outside, cryin' on the inside.

 

[5line]

Whats really pissing me off are the judgmental articles about how "cowardly" and "selfish" and "weak" he was for killing himself, obviously written by people who have zero understanding of depression. f*cking ignorant keyboard psychiatrists.

 

[OldDoorGunner]

I read somethig last night that came from a very close friend of his. Said Robin talked with him on the phone and Robin told his friend that he was having money troubles... That was one of the reasons why Robin was taking work on TV and doing movies he did not want to do.......I can see that adding to the depression if it's true.....

Rest In Peace Robin.........

J R

 

[Spock]

Travesty

 

[Raven]

He was a comic genius, and I don't use that word lightly.

 

[Sarg]

Mork from Ork. He didn't just put comedy out there, he spewed it in all directions. One day when I was in my deep, dark place, he and his mentor Johnathon Winters did a thirty minute ad lib. I was on the floor, gasping for breath by the end of it. That and Red Skelton would do me in.

RIP, Robin.

Sarg

 

[JarHed]

One of the nicest things you can say about him is that when you think of him you smile and laugh. He had a gift.

 

[Grizzly]

Whats really pissing me off are the judgmental articles about how "cowardly" and "selfish" and "weak" he was for killing himself, obviously written by people who have zero understanding of depression. f*cking ignorant keyboard psychiatrists.

Same here. It's enraging. We all know depression. For some of us it dives deeper into our soul. And celebrity people rarely effect me. But he had his beast.

I'm very bothered. More so to see how someone with his genuine gift and wit to have the demon of depression like that. I'm more bothered that he couldn't find the level of help he needed. It makes me wonder if I ever stand a chance.

 

[Sarg]

A long time ago, I had a brush with performing for a public audience. I thought it was going to be this great thing like what one might see on the Beatles on TV. It isn't. It's a long series of lightning flashes from up to down. You have to be 100% for your audience to get every dime of their admission, to a sudden switch off. After a while performers start taking uppers and downers to buffer the extremes.

And thus the downward spiral. Pretty soon their act suffers and more drugs. They can't come down off a poor performance, so more drugs. That's why they wind up in trouble. They go to rehab. They're sober for a year and then back on the drugs.

Sometimes, we are like this in up and down cycles. Extremes. Not a fun way to live.

Sarg

 

[Friday]

One of the nicest things you can say about him is that when you think of him you smile and laugh. He had a gift.

My son has that. He gives all his happy away. When he's in a good place, no worries. But when he's in a bad place there's none left for himself. After he hung himself, he was making the first responders fight back laughter. I just wanted to shake them. He's an 11yo who hung himself. Just because he's making other people laugh doesn't mean he's okay. Take him out of that home and admit him, please god, admit him. Or the courts won't take this attempt seriously, and my ex will still have custody, and he's just going to keep trying until he succeeds.

(And they didn't. Asthmatic kid, hung himself when he thought he was home alone at my ex's house, stepparent comes home early/unexpected and finds him, thank god cuts him down and calls 911, passed out blue and bulging and resuscitated... And? Left with my psychopathic ex.).

No one takes funny people seriously. :cry:

 

[Grizzly]

Sorry Friday. That's gotta be rough bro.