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posted by martyb on Sunday October 02 2016, @05:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the hard-way-to-go dept.

"It has been two years since Robin Williams died, and his widow, Susan Schneider Williams, continues to work to spread awareness of the brain disease that led to his suicide, Lewy Body Disease.

In a heartbreaking essay titled "The Terrorist Inside My Husband's Brain," Susan writes about her late husband's final few months and how the disease that he didn't know he had consumed his life. Sharing that Robin's many symptoms didn't fit any one diagnosis, Susan explains that he had to deal with not only physical limitations such as heartburn and poor sense of smell but also mental incapacitation.

"By wintertime, problems with paranoia, delusions and looping, insomnia, memory, and high cortisol levels - just to name a few - were settling in hard," she writes. "Psychotherapy and other medical help was becoming a constant in trying to manage and solve these seemingly disparate conditions.""

Full Article:

http://www.eonline.com/news/799108/robin-williams-widow-susan-schneider-williams-pens-heartbreaking-essay-about-his-final-months

** Essay ("The Terrorist Inside My Husband's Brain"):

http://www.neurology.org/content/87/13/1308.full
http://www.neurology.org/content/87/13/1308.full.pdf+html


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @07:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @07:14PM (#409122)

    That's because she is full of shit and selling books to retards.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @08:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @08:59PM (#409140)

    Not really. Psychologists sometimes use expressions like that that are easier to understand than the formal medical term. My favorite is "brain fuck", thinking too hard about problems.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 02 2016, @09:05PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday October 02 2016, @09:05PM (#409144) Homepage

      Robin Wiliams' widow is a Jew. No wonder why he killed himself. H.P. Lovecraft's wife was a Jew and he was an anti-Semite.

      There is a causal connection there.

      • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @09:14PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @09:14PM (#409147)

        True love has no bounds. Other than that there's Ritalin.