Robin Williams is dead.

Its funny...the greatest laughter always come from the darkest pain
 
Nanoo nanoo

My first jeep was a toy Mork and Mindy jeep.
When I got my first real jeep, I crawled in and hung upside down from the cage like Mork did.

Sad news and depression is a bitch. Someone close to you or maybe even you,suffers from depression. Its a big deal and should not be overlooked.
 
crazy. Just goes to show that having all that money, doesn't make you happy. Was he just depressed from being into drugs and coming off of them and dealing with reality? I know they canceled his show.
 
Sure provided a lot of laughs over the years. Too bad mental health issues got the best of him. Bad stuff.
 
Depression is a motherfucker.

Cherokeekid88 said:
crazy. Just goes to show that having all that money, doesn't make you happy.
Click to expand...

Money can't change you into someone with less destructive proclivities.

Cherokeekid88 said:
Was he just depressed from being into drugs and coming off of them and dealing with reality? I know they canceled his show.
Click to expand...

Cocaine addict (when everyone else was, too), alcoholic, and (unrelated) an aortic valve replacement in 2009. He talked a lot (in interviews and in his stand up) about how fawked up life and the world are. In interviews, he said his comedy was how he coped. Several stints in rehab, including earlier this summer. I loved to watch him but would bet (no judgement) chemical imbalance/bipolar disorder.
 
If you haven't dealt with or had to handle someone with depression, it's hard to understand just how bad it can be.

From watching his skits, it looks like he really enjoyed what he did. With that, all that excitement and happiness only means that his down was really hard. It's a roller coaster. Big highs and ULTRA low lows. Throw drugs and alcohol in the mix and it just magnifies it. then the lows are so depressing.... you want to die. too low and you end it.

It's a controlable illness with proper medication, but if you get off a little and have a low, it's hard to justify fixing it in your own mind.
 
Last edited:
Depression is something that I had hit the VERY VERY VERY VERY tip of the iceberg with. There were days where NOTHING sounded appealing. I would cry at the stupidest things and would fall silent for hours. I never took meds and was able to get out of it. I still fall into that trap every now and again for a moment, but I do what I can to get out quickly for fear of what might become if I let it fester.

I saw a specialist when I was in 4th grade and was on my way after a couple sessions and validation from my parents who at first thought I was just acting out.

I cannot even fatham what Robin Williams or anyone who has taken there own life because of this goes through hourly during the day.

I pray that I never go anywhere near where I once was.....
 
The only comedian that's un-mimic able. And he leaked out his personal issues a long time ago. You'd think his daughter he's so close to and surrounding people would not have thrown the red flag earlier. But out of all of the drug artists who have passed, who ever did...

It's unfortunate that heavy drug users are some of our most artistic...

The best comedian ever I know of!
 
he also had a form of Tourettes.Not the cussing or ticks kind but one that would show up in his comedy routines with his randomness and ability to jump all around subjects.He will be missed.Nobody else like him.
 
Some of Ya'll should read up on him a little more before jumping to so many conclusions. Quit regurgitating anything that you read. In the end, he was sicker than anyone imagined. He only knew how to perform, his one on one personal skills were non-existant. In his mind he was alone and couldnt deal with it.
He was definately brilliant though
RIP
 
There was a whitehouse style press conference on his death today w all the gory details and ridiculous prying questions from the media afterwards. It was sickening the way the press hounded the speaker like they were trial lawyers and he was on the stand and I could not watch it all. So much for RIP, there is NO dignity in media anymore, only competition to get the dirt or scoop on celebrity's while they ignore and don't report on the much more important issues all America faces today.
 
Last edited:
A man goes into the doctors, ‘Doctor,’ he says, ‘can you help me? Life doesn’t seem worth living, and I am shrouded in constant gloom.’ ‘My good man,’ says the doctor, taking a good look at the melancholy face before him, ‘there is only one cure for you. You must go and see Grimaldi the clown.’ ‘Sir,’ replies the patient, ‘I am Grimaldi the clown.’
Click to expand...


And this one has always made me smile/ate at me.
Anyone who has spent more than a few minutes talking to me probably knows how important my BIL was to me. Aside from introducing me and my wife he was my best friend for years until he died at 27 from cancer (BTW Fuck Cancer...) he was the funniest person Ive ever known "in person"...he always made people laugh. He always knew how to break the moment. The year before he died he had taken a bad turn right before Christmas...he had lost a ton of weight, was weak, frail and the surgery had left him scarred pretty dramatically in his face. He was quite a sight and looked like a shell of the vibrant dude he was. Many of his family (including his sister/my wife) hadn't seen him in a few weeks as he had holed up in his room to recover enough to join the family for a Christmas party. As we walked into her dads house he was standing there and my wife nearly broke down. She steeled herself not to show her reaction and how bad he looked. ...
It was OBVIOUS his time was drawing short. He looked at her and said in his big bombastic voice "Hey Sis! Whats's wrong? You look like your brother is dieing or something...Cheer up its Christmas" It was delivered in such a way the whole place busted up laughing.

In that vein

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/robin-williams-christopher-reeve
 
I've known people (I'm sure we all have) who took their own lives to escape all sorts of pain, depression, cancer, MS... My cousin battled depression throughout adolescence and as a young adult. After a particularly dark period, which included finding his birth father and learning the guy wanted nothing to do with him, he took his own life at 21 or 22.

His sister posted today on FB, "I don't think we can ever truly understand someone's pain but we can comfort the hurt, we can lift up the fallen and we can love one another. EVERYONE is irreplaceable, EVERYONE."
 
My sister,as some of you know, has some serious mental issues. She suffers from manic depression,bi-polar and moderate schizophrenia. She has a new baby and an older son.

It takes her an hour to make a decision, two hours to ponder her decision and 3 hours to act on it. And usually it is a bad decision. Alot of the things she says makes no sense ...like random jibberish,her guilt trips are unfathomable, her ability to process a conversation is hit and miss at best. She can stand in our living room, non committed to watch tv,non committed to sit down, she is just ''there'' really. She just holds her baby and constantly watches the clock. Like she feels like she should be somewhere doing something, but just cant quite place it. Hard to explain really.

I could go on and on and never explain it all.
Life is hard on the families of people like my sister. Sometimes we(my wife and I) have to stop,step outside and come to grips with the fact that this is not normal and she doesn't even know it. I have reasoned with my wife, that getting mad at my sister for NOT making any sense,is probably like getting mad at paralyzed Timmy for not walking to the mailbox.

Yet there are times of brilliance,normal conversation,laughter,love,sharing childhood memories,talking politics..just like normal. I will say that those ''normal times'' are few and far between.

She has seen doctors and somehow(I feel) she can placate the doctors. They have always seen much worse.So it seems she gets a ''sorta'' clean bill of health and gets sent on here way. She does not live with us, but has her own place. I have to admit that her situation has kept us at bay from visiting her at home, but we invite her over all the time.

Its hard to have a real conversation about her issues because she gets so defensive, she'll leave and not be heard from for days. Only to show back up, like nothing ever happened.

Like I said, I could go on for days about how depression and other mental illness' could lead to devastation throughout an entire family.

This may sound a bit selfish, but sometimes, I swear , this disease is harder on the loved ones and family than it is on the person that actually suffers from the illnesses.

We are keeping the best eye on her and her children that we can. But we cant be there 24/7.
 
Back
Top