I had to post this, because i still see people in disbelief of Robin Williams death. People dont see the underlying reason. And it bothers me. Robin Williams didnt die from suicide. He died from something that nobody in the news seems to be talking about., When people die from cancer, their cause of death can be various horrible things - seizure, stroke, pneumonia - and when someone dies after battling cancer,and people ask How did they die?, you never hear anyone say pulmonary embolism. The answer is always cancer. A Pulmonary Embolism can be the final cause of death with some cancers, but when my grandmother died from cancer, she died from cancer. That was it. When people ask me what Robin Williams died from, I very wisely tell them....depression. The word suicide gives many people the impression that it was his own decision, or that he chose to die. Whereas most people with cancer fight to live. And because depression is still much a misunderstood condition, you can hardly blame people for not understanding. Just a quick search on Facebook, Twitter, and every other social media outlet out there, will show you how many people have little sympathy for those who commit suicide. But just as 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 cant just cheer up with depression, just as you cant choose to not have cancer. When someone commits suicide as a result of depression, they die from depression - 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 suicide each year. (And you dont necessarily have to suffer from depression to commit suicide. Its actually just implied.) But considering that one person commits suicide every 14 minutes in the US alone, we clearly need to do more than battle the illness, and the stigmas that surround it. Perhaps depression might lose some of its it was his own fault stigma, if we start focusing on the illness, rather than the symptom. Robin Williams didnt die from suicide. He died from depression. It wasnt his choice to suffer from that. If you, are anyone you know is suffering from depression, please share this with family and friends. -END RANT-
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 05:51:08 +0000
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