It isn’t a disease.
A disease makes you sick and can eventually kill you.
Depression or sadness didn’t kill Williams.
Robin Williams killed Robin Williams.
Deep depressions can in fact kill you. Depressions are known to increase the chance of death and weaken your umm u be system and increase the likelihood you will get Alzheimers.
Thank you.
If a disease was this, then a change in behavior could cure, or at least remove all symptoms, of such "diseases" as gambling addiction, alcoholism, obesity." A person with Type 1 Diabetes would love it if they could eliminate their dependence on insulin injection if they would only stop indulging a certain behavior. But they cannot because they have a real disease, whereas the disease of the addicted gambler or drinker (I speak as a reformed alcoholic with a couple of nights in the ol' crowbar hotel under my belt) is really more about character than it is about "disease."
Depression is something else entirely, all bets are off, especially considering today's prescription pharmaceutical insanity. Judging Williams is God's job, not mine. Anyone who opts to murder himself/herself has a lot to answer for, but not to me. All I can do is think, "There but for the grace of God go I." God have mercy on him.
Yes, it’s a disease. Its a mental illness. It eats at your brain. That’s when you become irrational and look to death for relief.
I don’t blame people for not understanding. Science still doesn’t understand mental illness either. Certain drugs and therapies may help, but for some, nothing works. And I’m sorry to say, faith doesn’t always help either.