{"id":8386,"date":"2014-08-11T16:42:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T23:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=8386"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:54","slug":"robin-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/robin-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robin Williams has died from apparent suicide. This is a tough one. For ALL of us in the mental health world. Let’s keep perspective. This is a tragedy, but depression has symptoms and suicide is one of them. Most of us have been there. His pain was stronger than his ability to see any hope in the future. It’s what depression does to all of us. This is NO different than his dying from another illness such as cancer. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I ask that all of us who have or care about someone with a mental health disorder pass on the information that suicide is not shameful. It’s not a dirty word. It’s the outcome of an illness. Rest in peace Robin. We have been there and some of us make it out and some of us don’t.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you were already down and you heard this news, remember the mantra..\u00a0 Mental health disorders are illnesses. We can get help. Reach out to someone right now if you need help. His death is not a sign that we need to be more depressed. It’s a sign that we need to get help if we are depressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will now follow my own advice and turn off the internet and take care of myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n

PS: You can read more thoughts and comments on my Facebook Page at Julie A. Fast.<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 What a tough few days for so many people. I made the decision to turn off all media a few hours after I heard the news. I have not watched any since- nor have I looked for information online. I also said no to interviews until I knew I was stable myself.\u00a0 Here is my latest post on the topic.\u00a0 I hope I can help you if you are feeling down about the loss of such a great man.<\/p>\n

Here is a wonderful article written by the comedian Jim Norton about Robin Williams and why it seems so many funny\u00a0people are also so sad.\u00a0 It is a great article. I would like to add my
\nanswer to this question. It’s because depression is an ILLNESS and when combined with substance abuse, its a volatile illness. I have a life that many would envy from the outside as well- but if you knew how often I’ve been suicidal since age 19, you might be shocked and wonder how I can still be so suicidal after having so much success\u00a0as a writer. The answer is that I have bipolar disorder and being suicidal has ZERO to do with my actual life. This is why it’s so hard for us to understand why Robin Williams- a person universally adored- as you can see in this article- would choose to end his life. I say- he didn’t choose to end his life- not at all.<\/p>\n

Depression took his life.<\/p>\n

There is a HUGE difference.<\/p>\n

Looking at it this way eases the pain of his being gone.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read the article.\u00a0 Unless you need to take a break and you can read it later!<\/p>\n

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Robin Williams has died from apparent suicide. This is a tough one. For ALL of us in the mental health world. Let’s keep perspective. This is a tragedy, but depression has symptoms and suicide is one of them. Most of us have been there. His pain was stronger than his ability to see any hope in the future. It’s what depression does to all of us. This is NO different than his dying from another illness such as cancer. <\/p>\n

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I ask that all of us who have or care about someone with a mental health disorder pass on the information that suicide is not shameful. It’s not a dirty word. It’s the outcome of an illness. Rest in peace Robin. We have been there and some of us make it out and some [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11267,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8386\/revisions\/11267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}