http://www.allaboutdepression.com/cau_03.html
But there is stupidity.
Separated identical twins have an incredibly higher chance of depression than two people chosen at random. That proves there is a genetic factor. This means that by any definition it is a disease.
Some of the comments here condemning Williams or anyone else who commits suicide are flat-out ignorant, and nasty, as well.
“But there is stupidity.”
Yes there is and your displaying it. You don’t quit and you don’t walk away from your children and your family. The old timers such as my grand Father and Grand Mother would laugh at what people consider hardships today. Get on a buck board wagon and go from Salinas Kansas to Breckenridge Texas, find a job and make enough money to go back and get the rest of the family and head back in that same buckboard. Grand Mother would ride 15 miles into town on a buckboard to sell egg’s and butter while Grand Dad was working cows on a piece of property they sweat blood to buy.
A few years later my Grand Father was killed while working cows and my Grand Mother took on the ranch by herself. They faced hardships we couldn’t imagine but they didn’t quit and they didn’t bail out. Pop’s 93, lost my Mother when she was 86, he turned the operation over to me about 20 years ago. This ranch will stay in the family or I will die trying, I’ll never quit and I’ll never check out until the Good Lord calls me. My girls are the next in line and my oldest is just like her Great Grandmother.