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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @10:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @10:34PM (#409169)

    That description almost sounds like sleep paralysis, also known as the old hag syndrome.