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Robin Williams dead! Gee whiz. Such an unhappy bunch.
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janet-in-nc
Well-known member
I think he has suffered from depression for years and has been treated for it . I guess to no avail.
Sad, a brilliant man and such a good actor.
Sad, a brilliant man and such a good actor.
mariadnoca
Moderator
Hadn't heard till just now...
I'm stunned...so I went to look it up and then saw he took his life and something inside just crumbled to read that.
Was lucky enough to see him live once and laughed so hard I was still sore the next day. Once I went with a friend to her improv class in the city and he came - not as the teacher or guest, but just as a regular student like everyone else, but oh my, keeping up with him was another story.
My favorite roles I think were the dramatic ones, because he really was so.incredibly.good. For a man known for comedy, and a stunning example of great comedy, he was so beautifully nuanced in his dramatic roles he just shined. Good Will Hunting I think is my favorite, though nobody else could've made Good Morning Vietnam what it was. Another was What Dreams May Come...watching that after my husband died turned me inside out, because I had, like I expect most do going through that, moments of wanting to die too. And that film helped me to get that part of the grief sobbingly, painfully out instead of those feelings turning inward. For me, that film was the poster child reason to not commit suicide, and yet here we are.
Such completely heartbreaking news, if one good thing comes out of this I hope it's that people come to realize depression needs to be taken more seriously in our culture and when you are in the midst of it, some one needs to intervene and actually help vs. saying something like, you need to do something about this, while leaving it up to the ill person to try and figure it out on their own when they aren't capable of doing so.
RIP Robin, hope you are hanging out with Johnathan and your pain is no more.
I'm stunned...so I went to look it up and then saw he took his life and something inside just crumbled to read that.
Was lucky enough to see him live once and laughed so hard I was still sore the next day. Once I went with a friend to her improv class in the city and he came - not as the teacher or guest, but just as a regular student like everyone else, but oh my, keeping up with him was another story.
My favorite roles I think were the dramatic ones, because he really was so.incredibly.good. For a man known for comedy, and a stunning example of great comedy, he was so beautifully nuanced in his dramatic roles he just shined. Good Will Hunting I think is my favorite, though nobody else could've made Good Morning Vietnam what it was. Another was What Dreams May Come...watching that after my husband died turned me inside out, because I had, like I expect most do going through that, moments of wanting to die too. And that film helped me to get that part of the grief sobbingly, painfully out instead of those feelings turning inward. For me, that film was the poster child reason to not commit suicide, and yet here we are.
Such completely heartbreaking news, if one good thing comes out of this I hope it's that people come to realize depression needs to be taken more seriously in our culture and when you are in the midst of it, some one needs to intervene and actually help vs. saying something like, you need to do something about this, while leaving it up to the ill person to try and figure it out on their own when they aren't capable of doing so.
RIP Robin, hope you are hanging out with Johnathan and your pain is no more.
This summarizes it all: What suicide isn't
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http://elizabethahawksworth.com/2014/08/11/what-suicide-isnt-rip-robin-williams/
http://elizabethahawksworth.com/2014/08/11/what-suicide-isnt-rip-robin-williams/
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http://elizabethahawksworth.com/2014/08/11/what-suicide-isnt-rip-robin-williams/
http://elizabethahawksworth.com/2014/08/11/what-suicide-isnt-rip-robin-williams/
While much of what she says is spot on, I am always saddened
to attend the funeral of a person who has committed suicide and see the love that they could not feel for themselves expressed by their friends attending--and they DID try to reach out to them--they just could not be reached. A bridge too far.
to attend the funeral of a person who has committed suicide and see the love that they could not feel for themselves expressed by their friends attending--and they DID try to reach out to them--they just could not be reached. A bridge too far.
mariadnoca
Moderator
Yes, oh yes. I just watched the coroner's press conference as to cause of death...
And I don't think it's a lack of love felt, but speaks more to the oceans of pain someone is in the depths of. For him to hang himself by leaning forward from a seated position, to me speaks to how deep the pain of depression was for him. Simply awful unimaginable pain.
Of course this is colored by all the conversations I had with Meryl too.
And I don't think it's a lack of love felt, but speaks more to the oceans of pain someone is in the depths of. For him to hang himself by leaning forward from a seated position, to me speaks to how deep the pain of depression was for him. Simply awful unimaginable pain.
Of course this is colored by all the conversations I had with Meryl too.
michael-in-phoenix
Well-known member
I had years of experience working with suicidal mental patients back in...
...the day. I was a nurse aid and worked psych a lot. From my lowly position, I would often be asked to do what is called a one-on-one assignment. That is where I was assigned to a specific patient who the doctor determined could be suicidal. I had to be within arms length of the patient at all times. Even in the bathroom.
One of the things I learned when talking with them is that the only reason they were there was because they reached out to someone, rather than end their life. If they hadn't done that, they wouldn't be alive to talk with me.
Very sad and very scary.
Michael
...the day. I was a nurse aid and worked psych a lot. From my lowly position, I would often be asked to do what is called a one-on-one assignment. That is where I was assigned to a specific patient who the doctor determined could be suicidal. I had to be within arms length of the patient at all times. Even in the bathroom.
One of the things I learned when talking with them is that the only reason they were there was because they reached out to someone, rather than end their life. If they hadn't done that, they wouldn't be alive to talk with me.
Very sad and very scary.
Michael
patbastrop
Well-known member
Thank you for posting this -- well worth reading and remembering those we have lost to suicide.