"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:
** 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
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @09:03PM
I've never heard of this phenomenon mentioned anywhere before, but I've definitely experienced looping myself (DXM [erowid.org] induced).
For me personally, I experienced the thought that I was the entire universe. The universe consisted of my thoughts and included only my bedroom. The universe began with my realization that I was in my room alone, and continued until I figured out that I was the universe, and that the entire point of existence was to dwell on the thoughts of existence. I would come to some fundamental realization (don't ask, I don't really know) and then bam! I was confused and disoriented back at the beginning. Every iteration of the universe I would gain more insight into the nature of everything.
Also, I was Jesus a lot.
Kids, don't do drugs.
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Sunday October 02 2016, @09:57PM
wow, which darknet do i go for that ? ? ?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @03:39AM
DXM is sold over-the-counter. Recreationally, you drink a large amount of the cough syrup containing it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextromethorphan [wikipedia.org]
I would skip it. Do shrooms.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @10:34PM
That description almost sounds like sleep paralysis, also known as the old hag syndrome.