{"id":195922,"date":"2014-08-15T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/08\/15\/robin-williams-didnt-die-from-suicide-i-only\/"},"modified":"2014-08-15T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:19:10","slug":"robin-williams-didnt-die-from-suicide-i-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/08\/15\/robin-williams-didnt-die-from-suicide-i-only\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robin Williams didn\u2019t die from suicide. I only just heard the sad, sad news of Robin Williams\u2019s death. My wife sent me a message to tell me he had died, and, when I asked her what he died from, she told me something that nobody in the news seems to be talking about.<\/p>\n

When people die from cancer, their cause of death can be various horrible things \u2013 seizure, stroke, pneumonia \u2013 and when someone dies after battling cancer, and people ask \u201cHow did they die?\u201d, you never hear anyone say \u201cpulmonary embolism\u201d, the answer is always \u201ccancer\u201d. A Pulmonary Embolism can be the final cause of death with some cancers, but when a friend of mine died from cancer, he died from cancer. That was it. And when I asked my wife what Robin Williams died from, she, very wisely, replied \u201cDepression\u201d.<\/p>\n

The word \u201csuicide\u201d gives many people the impression that \u201cit was his own decision,\u201d or \u201che chose to die, whereas most people with cancer fight to live.\u201d And, because Depression is still such a misunderstood condition, you can hardly blame people for not really understanding. Just a quick search on Twitter will show how many people have little sympathy for those who commit suicide\u2026<\/p>\n

But, just as a Pulmonary Embolism is a fatal symptom of cancer, suicide is a fatal symptom of Depression. Depression is an illness, not a choice of lifestyle. You can\u2019t just \u201ccheer up\u201d with depression, just as you can\u2019t choose not to have cancer. When someone commits suicide as a result of Depression, they die from Depression \u2013 an illness that kills millions each year. It is hard to know exactly how many people actually die from Depression each year because the figures and statistics only seem to show how many people die from \u201csuicide\u201d each year (and you don\u2019t necessarily have to suffer Depression to commit suicide, it\u2019s usually just implied). But considering that one person commits suicide every 14 minutes in the US alone, we clearly need to do more to battle this illness, and the stigmas that continue to surround it. Perhaps Depression might lose some its \u201cit was his own fault\u201d stigma, if we start focussing on the illness, rather than the symptom. Robin Williams didn\u2019t die from suicide. He died from Depression*. It wasn\u2019t his choice to suffer that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tom Clempsom<\/a> (via mollyfamous<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robin Williams didn\u2019t die from suicide. I only just heard the sad, sad news of Robin Williams\u2019s death. My wife sent me a message to tell me he had died, and, when I asked her what he died from, she told me something that nobody in the news seems to be talking about. When people … <\/p>\n

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