Re: Robin Williams

On 8/11/2014 7:49 PM, Gwyn Ryan wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Matt Bear-Fowler
> <wakingdreaming@gmail.com <mailto:wakingdreaming@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Did you all hear Robin Williams was found dead this morning? Looks
> like suicide, I guess. :( He was one of my heroes.
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> Matt
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> I just heard. It's very sad. I've always thought that depression must
> be so much worse for someone who is *expected* to be funny and happy all
> the time. I thank life every day that feeling suicidal isn't one of my
> symptoms. There but for the grace of god and all that.
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I kind of always figured depression could be underneath any comedian.
And with the amount of drugs he did, it just kind of seemed obvious to me.

It's not officially been ruled a suicide yet though. I'm waiting for the
official word from the coroner.

I'm generally asymptomatic in terms of depression these days (the
mania's a little harder to keep under control), but suicidal ideation
was a major one for me, and it's very hard. My heart goes out to him if
it was suicide--god knows how long he'd been dealing--and to his family.
It's hard to deal with someone in that state too. It's a stupid, selfish
illness and I see no point for it to exist. If we could figure out how
to eradicate it, that would be awesome.


--
Jen
___________
"You cheated."
"Pirate."

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