Robin Williams Dead

Extraordinary · Aug 14, 2014

dk_lightning said: ↑

I have had my problems over the years and I'll admit I have attempted suicide twice. First in 2007 and again in 2009. Was a rough time for me and someone I thought to be a friend found it funny and was taking the piss. Worst thing in the world.

Depression makes you do and think things you would not normally do. At times death seems to be the one and only way out of whatever problems you are having.

It can be quite hard to tell if someone is depressed. Me, I hide it very well and no one ever knows unless I tell them and that's the problem.

Depression and suicide is not funny and I think anyone who thinks it is needs to rot in hell.

If I decided to talk to a friend or family member and tell them I was thinking of killing myself and the reaction I got was along the lines of, Well that's selfish etc I would then just go do it and so would a lot of ppl.

The right thing to do is to help the person who is suicidal. You dont laugh at them or tell them they are selfish etc. That may well push them over the edge and kill them selves. And in my eyes that makes you a murderer. You may as well of slit their wrists your self.
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Well said, people who think it is selfish when the person is depressed have obviously never experienced depression, it completely sucks every last piece of happiness out of you, leaving you with nothing but dark dark thoughts and absolutely no light at the end of the tunnel, which you don't even realise you are inside of, it feels like that is the real world

I haven't been so bad Ive attempted suicide, but I have been on that path, and its not somewhere I want to go again

I can completely see why suicide is selfish when its for different reasons such as being caught for a crime, or becoming bankrupt / losing everything etc, but for depression, its completely different, you literally are pushed into that frame of mind where dying feels like the only way out of the hell you are in, and as for leaving family behind, because of your mental state, you believe you are doing them a favour, saving them from having to be around you

CPC_RedDawn · Aug 14, 2014

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Spets · Aug 14, 2014

fantaskarsef said: ↑

I know the difference between being down and a clinical depression.
Yet again, depression not always leads to suicide... so I was thinking, there might have been something else. Williams was treated for depression too, probably for years, and didn't kill himself until now, so I theorized, maybe something happened that made him think he had to do it...
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Ah, didn't realise that's what you meant.

Lets all sign the petition!!!

DLG · Aug 14, 2014

J.B.west said: ↑

explain to me when suicide has a good reason behind it!! Im just curious
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he went through 2 divorces and was on the verge of bankruptsy

fantaskarsef · Aug 14, 2014

Techio said: ↑

Take this with a grain of salt but I heard that Robin had to sell his home for $30 million in order to pay his debt but didn't pass. So he went onto the show The Crazy Ones that would help him pay off the remaining but the show got cancelled which may have given him further trouble...
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That would make sense... unfortunately.

Spets · Aug 15, 2014

Apparently he was battling early stages of Parkinson's as well as depression:
http://www.imd b.com/news/ni57597334/?ref_=hm_nw_tp_t1

Veeshush · Aug 22, 2014

So maybe when Robin Williams is being reduced to a punchline, he is just being eased back into the collective subconscious. The joke teller is now a joke to some people. Perhaps that is the natural order of things, and legacy is always destined to focus on controversy.

But let’s be honest, lots of people do drugs. Is doing them even remarkable? People who run media do drugs. Anti-drug politicians constantly do drugs. Robin Williams wrote into his live performance rider that every event must also hire homeless labor. Those homeless people almost for sure did some drugs. The people who organized the event did. But Robin Williams was sober for a long time. In fact, due to the fact that I have been aware of my own intense depression and anxiety since I was a child, I’ve never done a drug outside of cigarettes, alcohol, or caffeine. And I had to quit caffeine after once going over 24 hours without ingesting anything but energy drinks. I had a three-hour panic attack, thinking it was a heart attack because my arm had gone numb. I’m glad there are people who talk about their personal brain chemistry not being good for certain things, or else I might have tried some really weak weed and bummed some people out with my reaction.

We know that Robin Williams was suffering from anxiety, depression, and chillingly enough he had Parkinson’s disease as well. There are rumors that comedians need to suffer to fuel their craft. But Robin Williams lived and worked in spite of all of these things. He managed himself. He was not a victim of his addiction; he was a human being who had a powerful army of gears turning inside of him. If you call him weak or a coward, you’ve forgotten what it took him to get this far.

#RobinWilliams anyone who kills themselves is a coward in my book, doesn't matter if you are a robin Williams, or joe blow down the street
— A Watchful Eye (@ikihi1) August 21, 2014

He was likely taking medications prescribed by legal doctors who didn’t hang out in cartoon alleys. And these kinds of medications may have had frightening effects on a person’s mood. Parkinson’s itself is directly linked to depression because of the effects it has on the brain. He’d had heart surgery in 2009, which is often said to lead to hormone changes and depression. And Robin Williams was not ready to talk about his Parkinson’s diagnosis yet, likely so he would not have to read the sort of dumb speculative bull**** being strewn across the web. Sure, he had somewhere between zero and twelve layers of intense sadness to live through. This was perhaps because he was composed of blood, and bones, and had a complicated system of dendrites and synapses to manage, the smaller parts of a larger working brain of someone you might have related to as a person. If we’d really known him.

Robin Williams had appeared to conquer his anxiety and ride it like a bucking dragon-steed. And for all the cliches of sad comedians, Robin Williams took on dark and frightening acting roles as often as he could. There are suddenly a lot of articles lamenting Robin Williams as tragic, but he is not. He is gone, and if he had stayed it would have been crushingly hard for him. That is how life works.

If one looks past headlines and status updates, this death takes on the quiet and disturbing intimacy of any crime scene. That is because Robin Williams was real. He was what forensic scientists and police detectives sometimes refer to as a human ****ing person.
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