Robin Williams Dead
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A terrible loss.
RedBusarider
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Depression is very real and so often misunderstood.
Very sad.
Very sad.
I just don't get it... I am not discrediting depression at all I know it is a real thing but if anyone at all it going for them you would have thought that Robin did.
I hope that if there are people that are suffering with depression here that they would reach out and let someone know... I will always make time to talk!
It's never that bad....
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I hope that if there are people that are suffering with depression here that they would reach out and let someone know... I will always make time to talk!
It's never that bad....
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GNBRETT
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Depression is no joke! I've had (3) friends from HS commit suicide and for no apparent reason. I always wondered why but after seeing this u realize how deadly it is under stress. especially that stress of being an alcoholic or drug addict. ur mind temporarily is unable to rationalize and you can't unring the bell smh. sad chit. RIP
cheferman65
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A tragic loss, condolences to his friends and family, RIP Robbin Williams.
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Some truly powerful words regarding depression that a friend shared in light of the death of Robin Williams:
"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."
-David Foster Wallace, from his novel Infinite Jest
"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."
-David Foster Wallace, from his novel Infinite Jest
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So sad I feel like we've been cheated if anyone can take anything from this if your suffering from depression please please seek help talk to someone anyone it's never too late...we lost a beautiful person yesterday RIP Robin Williams
The thing is you can reach a state where you are unable to ask for help. A person does what their mind tells them. When it starts misfiring, there is no telling what can be the result. Just as you are unable to grasp the idea it can get like that, a person suffering can feel there is no use in asking for help because there is none for how they feel. Every situation is different and that makes it very hard to help each individual.
He'd fought dependency (either alcohol or drugs) off and on his entire life (jeez, color me surprised, cause he could act CRAZY). Had just been in rehab I read.
The man truly had a talent, but his talent was derived from which I'd consider mental instability...and it finally got the best of him. Sad but true.
The man truly had a talent, but his talent was derived from which I'd consider mental instability...and it finally got the best of him. Sad but true.
GNBRETT
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true. Ive read numerous times over the years how great comedians draw a lot of their work when they are in a deep dark hole of either depression or substance abuse.
I wud be willing to bet a lot of his great performances were when he was highly intoxicated on either drugs or alcohol. I guess no different then many great musicians over the years.
I wud be willing to bet a lot of his great performances were when he was highly intoxicated on either drugs or alcohol. I guess no different then many great musicians over the years.
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