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RIP Robin Williams - Albert Doyle - 12-08-2014
I don't want to be the person who breaks the news Robin Williams is dead in California.
RIP Robin Williams - Magda Hassan - 12-08-2014
I just heard it too. Very sad news. Depression is a terrible thing. He will be missed by many but must be almost unbearable for his children and family.
RIP Robin Williams - Dawn Meredith - 12-08-2014
Magda Hassan Wrote:I just heard it too. Very sad news. Depression is a terrible thing. He will be missed by many but must be almost unbearable for his children and family.
Depression is so misunderstood. Many think you can talk yourself out of it or pray your way out of it. It is tragic that he was not hospitalized and that the correct medication was not found. He had gone to rehab in July to prevent a relapse of his addictions, but depression is the flip side of this coin. He needed medical intervention.
He was the funniest guy I have ever seen yet his demons were too severe. :
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RIP Robin Williams - Magda Hassan - 12-08-2014
Use of drugs and alcohol to excess is usually just an attempt to cope and cover up other underlying issues. Often anxiety and depression. Which are often seen as human flaws and personal failing rather than a biochemical medical condition. Then the regular over use of drugs and/or alcohol brings another whole world of pain on top of that. Being a human can be very hard some times.
RIP Robin Williams - Tracy Riddle - 12-08-2014
RIP, Robin, and thank you for all that you gave us.
There is no simple cure for depression. Medications sometimes work (for a while), and sometimes make people worse. They have lots of side effects, and people don't want to stay on them. For many, there is no "correct" medication - all of them are very dangerous, IMO. I had some experience with Paxil, and now that I'm off of it, I would never get on it again.
Depression can be partly chemical, partly psychological, mostly existential. It's part of the human condition and can't be irradicated by science.
RIP Robin Williams - Kenneth Kapel - 12-08-2014
At a Chicago based sports message board the great human and very talented Robin Williams was called "liberal scum". He is also being trashed by rightwing websites. Is being a sociopath a preresquite to being a 21st century "conservative?"
RIP Robin Williams - Drew Phipps - 12-08-2014
Kenneth Kapel Wrote:At a Chicago based sports message board the great human and very talented Robin Williams was called "liberal scum". He is also being trashed by rightwing websites. Is being a sociopath a preresquite to being a 21st century "conservative?"
Only to join the golf club.
RIP Robin Williams - Tracy Riddle - 13-08-2014
Kenneth Kapel Wrote:At a Chicago based sports message board the great human and very talented Robin Williams was called "liberal scum". He is also being trashed by rightwing websites. Is being a sociopath a preresquite to being a 21st century "conservative?"
Yep, pretty much.
RIP Robin Williams - Albert Doyle - 13-08-2014
The last time this level of political hatred was practiced so crudely was on the streets of Germany in the 1930's. FOX Americans have found the buzz of fascist politics and they like the ease and feel of it.
RIP Robin Williams - Drew Phipps - 13-08-2014
The problem with wielding hate and fear as a weapon, is that it so quickly turns on the wielder.