Posted on 08/11/2014 4:12:14 PM PDT by Islander7
Actor Robin Williams has died, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Monday.
He was 63.
The Sheriff’s Office was called to a home in unincorporated Tiburon just after noon Monday, the office stated in a news release.
I agree...... its a vicious circle
The only good news I have is I’ve seen a lot of people break out of it
RIP
If you've never felt the emptiness & hopelessness of depression, consider yourself very fortunate.
I like to relate the experience of the late Sir Winston Churchill. I am not sure what years he was referring to. Churchill referred to his depression as "black dog". For when he woke up in the morning he said "it was like a large black dog sitting on his chest".
If there is anything some us can impart to deal with depression, it is in a good cause. No drugs for me, my generation never took 'em. Not that we youngsters were any better than any other generation, just that drugs did not generally exist. Talking about the 1940's and 1950's.
I was proscribed Zoloft. The results scared the living daylights out of me. Got off them double quick. I just shake off the blahs on arising and get going. First to the coffee shop. Set myself tasks to be done. Walk my dog over at the park etc. Well, I should quit right here. Not to forget condolences to fans of the late Robin Williams. Loved "Mrs. Doubt fire".
I should mention the death of old soldier of WW2. He was Charlie Payne, 89 years of age. He was the President's uncle. His sister was Madlyn Payne Dunham, the mother of Stanley Ann Dunham. He was in the opening up of a concentration camp, Ohrdruf in Germany. What he saw he never forget. He was quite successful in returning to civilian life.
Excuse the ramble everyone!
I’ve never seen that one. Was just reading about it, & I want to. I loved all his movies, but Hook is a huge favorite.
Really? Wow, didn’t realize he was that awesome. Well, of course he was awesome, but....
Condescension does not become you.
Have a day.
I have the same experiences. There were many times I wanted to cease to exist, yet I knew that is not possible. Thankfully, my religious upbringing was the one thing I had to hold on to. I knew death is not an end, but a new beginning; my life is not mine to end. Anti-depressants saved my life in more ways than one.
Now, in my early 60s, I have a wonderful marriage, true contentment and happiness. Sometimes there is a trip through to hell get to a good place.
“What RW did or did not say is utterly irrelevant.
Condescension does not become you. Have a day.”
1. It was you that was condescending. I merely said ‘bug off’ to your condescending post to me.
2. If you say that what RW says is irrelevant, take it up with him, not me.
I strongly suspect that Robin Williams had a severe case of manic depression, either undiagnosed or untreated. It is extremely exhausting to its victims, who often meet untimely ends.
In their manic phase, they are often very entertaining, with a sharp wit and surprising spontaneity. One doctor who worked at a psychiatric hospital had a manic depressive patient, and he described an encounter.
He was holding a conversation at one end of a long and crowded corridor, when a female patient with m-d saw him from the other side of the corridor. She shouted his name, “Mark!”, to attract his attention, then repeated herself again and again as she walked towards him: “Mark! Mark! Mark!”. He pretended to ignore her rudeness.
Finally when she arrived where he was standing, she paused for a moment, then said, “Gee, I sound like a dog with a hairlip!”
>>And you know this how?
Once again...you post like your dumb.<<
You went there and can live with your decision.
I thought he was done with his demons, but I hear tell he was fighting them until the end. His demons probably provided his brilliance.
You are a sad, sad, mean person. To use this tragedy to demean a fellow FReeper is bad. To not properly punctuate “your” tells us all you are ignorant.
Post in haste, repent in lesure.
You are a sad, sad, mean person. To use this tragedy to demean a fellow FReeper is bad. To not properly punctuate “your” tells us all you are ignorant.<
His demons provided his brilliance? Please elaborate. That's interesting....
You don't know anything about me...and you want to tell me I'm ignorant when you can't spell...leisure????
ROFLOL!!!
>>His demons provided his brilliance? Please elaborate. That’s interesting....<<
The part of his brain that provided such comedic genius probably NEVER CUTS OFF. I am not comparing myself with Mr. Williams but I have the same problem. Part of my brain NEVER SHUTS DOWN — it gives me anxiety and insomnia and a constant battle to avoid chemical solutions. As I said, I suspect that was the case — and has been the case with so many brilliant people.
>>You don’t know anything about me...and you want to tell me I’m ignorant when you can’t spell...leisure????
ROFLOL!!!<<
Misspelling a word (I will grant you that it may have happened although you don’t specify in which post such an error occurred) is not the same as choosing the wrong word.
Fingers may strike the wrong keys. Brains (or lack thereof) choose the words in the appropriate context.
No worries......
>>I see clearly now....<<
Great song :)
What was the film of Garp missing that was in the book? It’s regarded as a first rate adaptation.
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