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Robin Williams didn’t die from a disease, he died from his choice
http://themattwalshblog.com ^ | August 12, 2014 | Matt Walsh

Posted on 08/12/2014 1:28:29 PM PDT by NKP_Vet

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To: combat_boots
Thank you but I don't need your ‘’blessing’’ or your back-handed condescension.
61 posted on 08/12/2014 2:03:17 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: MNDude

Robin Williams ski on ‘Viagra’....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFM11SmoxfI


62 posted on 08/12/2014 2:03:20 PM PDT by caww
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To: NKP_Vet

The Mental Illness Cop-Out

http://takimag.com/article/the_mental_illness_cop_out_jim_goad#axzz3ACt8zw70


63 posted on 08/12/2014 2:03:59 PM PDT by LibertyJihad
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Yeah. So was Nietzsche. “Life is a meaningless struggle in an otherwise blessed state of nonexistence.’’ I bet either of these two spent a lot of lonely Saturday nights!
64 posted on 08/12/2014 2:05:23 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Been through AA. Didn’t do me any good. I left the meetings and went and got drunk. Only when I gave my life to the Lord and started helping others did I quit drinking and come out of my depression. I used to be on every type of anti-depressant and sleeping pill you can think of. One day I flushed them down the commode and said “to hell with it, I refuse to live like this”. And with the pills went the booze. Through helping others, you help yourself. Stay busy. Get off the pity pot. You’ll be a better man for it.


65 posted on 08/12/2014 2:05:42 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: jmacusa

Congratulations on the 24 years. Perhaps Mr Williams’s substance abuse was just a symptom of an underlying mental condition. BiPolar is a tough disease, as I have witnessed within my family, immediate and extended.


66 posted on 08/12/2014 2:05:51 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Eva

There is situational depression and there is clinical depression. All of us at one time or another in life suffer the former. Others, such as myself, at one time or another suffer or have suffered from the latter.


67 posted on 08/12/2014 2:07:35 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: Yaelle

....” I am a huge mistake on this planet and I would be helping everyone by leaving. “.....

That still remains a self-centered act.....otherwise the concern would be for the utter pain they would cause others by taking their life.


68 posted on 08/12/2014 2:07:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: Yaelle

....” I am a huge mistake on this planet and I would be helping everyone by leaving. “.....

That still remains a self-centered act.....otherwise the concern would be for the utter pain they would cause others by taking their life.


69 posted on 08/12/2014 2:07:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: NKP_Vet

Easy to say.


70 posted on 08/12/2014 2:08:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: shotgun

God bless you and your daughter.

Williams was sick. He had a brain illness. His body is hardly cold; a little compassion is appropriate.

As for his eternal destination, we can guess but we just don’t know. No one can say that he didn’t cry out to God in his last agony and receive mercy.


71 posted on 08/12/2014 2:08:22 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Would you say the same to a diabetic? That is, “I think I’ll go have a big ice cream sundae’’!!


72 posted on 08/12/2014 2:09:18 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: jmacusa
Yeah. So was Nietzsche.

"Y'know Nietzsche says that 'Out of chaos comes order.'"

73 posted on 08/12/2014 2:09:39 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: CatherineofAragon
No one can say that he didn’t cry out to God in his last agony and receive mercy.

No but some sure do try.

74 posted on 08/12/2014 2:09:56 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: LibertyJihad

And a lot of killers are walking the streets because some liberal judge let them off the hook because some liberal lawyer coped a “mental illness” defense.


75 posted on 08/12/2014 2:09:58 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: shotgun

I pray for you, your family and in particular, your dear child.


76 posted on 08/12/2014 2:10:53 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: NKP_Vet

I’ve had bad days, bad weeks even, but I’m quite sure that I’ve never experienced the kind of depression that some have had to endure. I count my blessings.


77 posted on 08/12/2014 2:11:44 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: LibertyJihad

I agree with the article in this respect....

“The very idea of “mental illness” is schizoid. It implies that the “illness” is somehow a separate entity from the person, thus casting responsibility on the illness rather than the person....... Isolating the illness allows one ‘to pretend’ that their personality is infected with a germ, when the more likely explanation is that they simply have a bad personality.......The fundamental error in the idea of “mental illness” lies in creating a fictional duality between the person’s imaginary affliction and the core of their very being.

This in no way discounts the reality of neurological disorders. Those are ‘physical conditions’ that can be quantified. But in most cases, “mental illness” seems like a cheap and dishonest way of avoiding what are fundamental character flaws.


78 posted on 08/12/2014 2:12:20 PM PDT by caww
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To: NKP_Vet

I suspect Williams was just as much angry as depressed.


79 posted on 08/12/2014 2:12:28 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: MarMema

Sounds more like anger about something missing their life.


80 posted on 08/12/2014 2:13:12 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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