News I Miss Robin Williams

[Notsowild]

Seen this article on Robin Willaims. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/12/robin-williams-sadness-clown-addiction-mental-illness
What do you think?

 

[scout86]

I miss him too!

 

[Queen Boudica]

The man with the sad eyes. That is so true. Think that is what made him so engaging, you could relate. You wanted him to overcome the demons. One of his quotes how he is afraid of everything, just can relate so much to that.

 

[Kintsugi]

I miss Robin Williams too. I've been saying for years and years that he was the one celebrity I would truly mourn, and I thought he was the only celebrity I would cry over. That he took his own life hit me hard. I didn't cry. He took his life too shortly after my father-in-law, and I had no tears left. Such tragedy.

 

[Queen Boudica]

He took his life just a few weeks before the anniversary of my own sister's suicide. Suicides always get me, but his one there was too much detail coming out about how he went about it and I couldn't not read it. So much despair there. Knocked me right down. If something good could come of it, like people recognise that suicide is one of our biggest killers. But I don't know what the answers are...

 

[Notsowild]

I like this part:
All illness is a great leveller, but none levels like mental illness. It remains the poor relation of medicine. Research is paltry. Therapies are halfhearted.Drugs are primitive. But addictive and depressive illness seems to probe deep into the relations between individuals and those around them. It is the crack in the window that can seem beyond mending. The sadness of the clown goes beyond irony. It is one of the great mysteries of life.

 

[Queen Boudica]

I don't know whether it is a mystery I think it stems in childhood and when we are formulating our identities and the environment we grow up in and also some genetic parts. I think it made him a genius in his comic ability, but it ate up inside him. I think he overcame so much and he beat alcoholism and drug addiction for 20 years, I think he was a great example of someone who pushed through his pain.

But then Parkinson's that is a cruel blow and the drugs that go with it. In the end I think it was a cruel twist of fate.

 

[ms spock]

I miss him too.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I miss him as well. I still watch his movies but they are tainted with loss of a great man.

When my husband was diagnosed with Parkinsons he was also diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia that lasted three years and he finally died from the dementia. I cannot find any facts but I do wonder if that happened to Robin Williams as well. I do not know if he did. But I will always wonder if that tipped the scales for me.