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"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: 3, Insightful) by ledow on Monday October 03 2016, @09:34AM
And language evolves, and allegory, metaphor and simile exist. Terrorism, from Latin for "to frighten", i.e. the act of frightening, so terrorism is the act of invoking fright.
What you've imposed is an inherently modern definition without reference to any etymology of the word in use.
Terrorism, same root as terrifying. It's not hard.
And please stop degrading treatment of mental health issues by saying they cannot be compared.
Ghost in the machine.
Terrorist in the brain.
Artist in the painting.
It's all the same use.
Or has the terrorist's use of terrorism invoked fear in yourself that is beyond compare, i.e. exactly the point of terrorism as an act, such that you can't bring yourself to use the word in any other context?
Isn't that a bit like not being able to say Nazi or Voldemort?
And doesn't that mean the terrorists have won already?
That's just hysterical to me. Look that word up.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Tuesday October 04 2016, @03:02PM
Pedantry does your argument about effective communication no favors. I already know what the definition of hysterical is; I use the word hilarious, instead. You show your hand by expecting others to be as illiterate as you are.
Just because anyone can get away with low-quality and sub-standard speech, writing, driving, and whatever work they do for a living, does not mean that everyone should be held to that low standard.
The word terrorist was used because it sells. If you think that tabloids and newspapers are in the business of raising proper awareness about mental illness and disseminating information, and not information suppression and advertising, you are a lost cause.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Tuesday October 04 2016, @07:39PM
adjective
1. of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
2. uncontrollably emotional.
************3. irrational from fear, emotion, or an emotional shock. ****************
4. causing hysteria.
5. suffering from or subject to hysteria.
6. causing unrestrained laughter; very funny:
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And this woman is a Dr, not a journalist.