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Robin Williams' Widow Susan Schneider Williams Pens Heartbreaking Essay About His Final Months

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

"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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Original Submission

• Neurology® Podcast - September 27, 2016 Issue (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @04:33AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @04:33AM (#409257)

  Editorial Titled: The Terrorist inside My Husband’s Brain

  https://www.aan.com/rss/search/home/episodedetail/?item=3178 [aan.com]

  1) Editorial Titled: The Terrorist inside My Husband's Brain
  2) e-Pearl topic: X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy
  3) Topic of the month: Neurologic prognosis following cardiac arrest This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Ted Burns interviews Mrs. Susan Schneider Williams about her editorial on learning to deal with her husband's (Robin Williams) Lewy Body disease. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy.

  Direct Download: http://aan.com/rss/index.cfm/getfile/AAN_3178.mp3 [aan.com]

  Episode Segments

  Introduction (00:19 - 01:00)
  Interview-Editorial Titled: The Terrorist inside My Husband’s Brain (01:01 - 26:37)
  ePearl 1-X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy (26:38 - 28:00)
  LOTW-prognostic models and clinical findings of myoclonus (28:01 - 37:27)
  ePearl 2-X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy (37:28 - 38:23)
  Closing (38:24 - 38:48)