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Robin Williams’ Wife Reveals Surprising Health Secret in Statement
The Blaze ^ | 8/144/2014 | Madeleine Morgenstern

Posted on 08/14/2014 12:02:04 PM PDT by KosmicKitty

Robin Williams was suffering from the early stages of Parkinson’s disease, his widow revealed Thursday, days after the beloved actor and comedian was found dead of an apparent suicide.

Susan Schneider said Williams’ “sobriety was intact” at the time of his death, and that he was struggling with “depression, anxiety as well as early stages of Parkinson’s disease, which he was not yet ready to share publicly.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 1; parkinson; parkinsonsdisease; robinwilliams
Still doesn't excuse what he did
1 posted on 08/14/2014 12:02:04 PM PDT by KosmicKitty
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To: KosmicKitty

Health care rationers would claim it wouldn’t be a quality life.


2 posted on 08/14/2014 12:03:28 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: KosmicKitty

No, but it very well could have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.


3 posted on 08/14/2014 12:05:38 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: a fool in paradise

Tell that to Michael J Fox and Janet Reno


4 posted on 08/14/2014 12:06:22 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: KosmicKitty

I disagree!! When my father was in the early stages of Parkinsons with dementia he went through a CRIPPLING depression. Luckily I got him diagnised early and got anti depressants and on dopamine ( which lack of dopamine is the problem with Parkinsons and alsi a HUGE factor in depression.)


5 posted on 08/14/2014 12:07:50 PM PDT by autumnraine
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To: KosmicKitty

This is sad.


6 posted on 08/14/2014 12:08:13 PM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: autumnraine

My BIL in the UK has it. Horrible disease.


7 posted on 08/14/2014 12:09:58 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: autumnraine

Still doesn’t mean his family, especially his kids, will carry what he did to them everyday till the day they die.


9 posted on 08/14/2014 12:13:40 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: F15Eagle

No fan of Reno, just a first name that pops up when Parkinson’s gets mentioned.


10 posted on 08/14/2014 12:14:37 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: KosmicKitty

Might have added to his depression if it made it difficult to function as an actor.


11 posted on 08/14/2014 12:15:37 PM PDT by grania
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

My 87 year old Dad has been dealing with it for ten years plus. He’s made of sturdier stuff than most of us.


12 posted on 08/14/2014 12:25:06 PM PDT by wordsofearnest (Proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs it. C.S. Lewis)
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"Still doesn't excuse what he did"

Agreed. Michael J. Fox has dealt with Parkinson's Disease for a long time. He's not a favorite of mine, and I didn't watch his latest show, which ran at the same time as The Crazy Ones, and was also cancelled.

13 posted on 08/14/2014 12:28:40 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: KosmicKitty

Of course but that form of hopelessness can convince you that they are better off withoutyou. It’s crazy how the mind can work.


14 posted on 08/14/2014 12:32:58 PM PDT by autumnraine
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To: autumnraine

Oh, yeah. Been there.

But it still doesn’t excuse what he did!


15 posted on 08/14/2014 12:35:46 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: KosmicKitty

also:

Billy Graham
Johnny Cash
Muhammad Ali
Linda Ronstadt
Casey Kasem
Vincent Price


16 posted on 08/14/2014 1:46:27 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Thank you. I did not know most of those.


17 posted on 08/14/2014 2:39:28 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: KosmicKitty

I find it odd that the wife would disclose this, something Robin Williams didn’t do while alive. What could possibly be her reason for doing this? This is the wife who despite having a husband suffering depression, having money problems, trying to stay clean from drugs & alcohol and now we hear Parkinson’s, didn’t find it necessary to check on him before she went out the morning he died. I feel for his children. They must be cringing.


18 posted on 08/14/2014 3:00:25 PM PDT by Shannon
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To: Shannon

I posted the same thing on another thread. She should have been more attentive!


19 posted on 08/14/2014 3:27:45 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: KosmicKitty

So I’m not the only one who thinks something was out of whack behind the scenes. On another note, I’m glad there are 3 children. They’ll be able to support each other.


20 posted on 08/14/2014 6:43:36 PM PDT by Shannon
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