<p>That sounds amazing, Fang. If you ever find it, would you link it? </p>
<p>It might be on an old Dick Cavett DVD, I’ll check one site, but I did see this with Robin, even back then, talking about depression and performing
<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube;
<p>It was this episode: <a href=“TV Guide, TV Listings, Streaming Services, Entertainment News and Celebrity News - TV Guide”>TV Guide, TV Listings, Streaming Services, Entertainment News and Celebrity News - TV Guide;
<p>I don’t know if that thirty-year-old show is even on video anywhere anymore. I certainly can’t find it online.</p>
<p>If anyone is interested in learning more about bipolar illness (maybe you have a loved one who has been diagnosed), I would HIGHLY recommend the book An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D. She is a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has bipolar illness herself. It’s not a long book, but incredibly eye-opening.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.amazon.com/An-Unquiet-Mind-Memoir-Madness/dp/0679763309”>http://www.amazon.com/An-Unquiet-Mind-Memoir-Madness/dp/0679763309</a></p>
<p>I remember liking Darkness Visible by William Styron. ( Sophie’s Choice, The confessions of Nat Turner, Lie down in darkness, et al.)
<a href=“http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1989/12/styron198912”>http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1989/12/styron198912</a></p>
<p>Most moving tribute I’ve seen.
<a href=“The Most Beautiful Tribute To Robin Williams, And It's Just A Minute Long”>The Most Beautiful Tribute To Robin Williams, And It's Just A Minute Long;
<p>EK, that was especially lovely and moving. He was such a wonderful, gentle and good soul. He touched so many lives and did so many fabulous things in his life. Am glad he had kids who loved him, as well as a loving wife.</p>
<p>The only movie I can recall not seeing was What Dream May Come" (1998) I think I am watching it this weekend if if only for the visual beauty.
It’s sad that even with all the depressed individuals in his celebrity world and ours, the shame still attached to it. He once mentioned it in an interview but also denied it, felt it was easier to talk about alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, etc. Many of those things go hand and hand with depression. Maybe being a comedian he thought it would hurt his routines, people would look for signs of it.
This has been reprinted so many times, from The Watchman, cliche but does carry truth.
Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor…I am Pagliacci.” </p>
<p>Do people think he never got treatment or something? That seems highly unlikely.</p>
<p>He mentioned meds he took occasionally,sounded more like for anxiety but I of course can’t know for sure. He said he knew when he needed them.</p>
<p>When something like this happens, it’s natural to look for somebody to blame–it’s just too scary to think that this just happens. In a case of suicide, it’s easiest to blame the person who committed suicide. But I think “there, but for the grace of God, go I” is so much better than “that could never happen to me.”</p>
<p>It’s not a blame issue. It’s a tragedy. I do get frustrated with the go get treatment solution, though. That’s after seeing far too many people unhelped or even worsened by what was considered treatment. One was on meds and was either manic or a zombie until he died of Parkinson’s which was blamed on years (decades) of psychotropic medication. The other didn’t get better until she decided to do it herself. Slowly. Treatment for depression turned her into a drug addict, basically. So, that is where I’m coming from on this one. I know it helps somebody. But, it’s just not as easy as, “Go get help.” And. I strongly suspect he did that many, many times. He was just coming out a world class treatment facility. </p>
<p>The scary truth is that sometimes nothing helps.</p>
<p>Very sweet tribute by David Letterman
<a href=“David Letterman Had The Most Touching Robin Williams Tribute Of Them All | HuffPost Entertainment”>David Letterman Had The Most Touching Robin Williams Tribute Of Them All | HuffPost Entertainment;
<p>^^^^Yet again, a huge lump in my throat. Thanks for posting.</p>
<p>I came across this tribute made by the man who does the Genie voice in Disney video games. It’s pretty amazing.</p>
<p><a href=“'Aladdin' Genie Voice Actor Performs Tribute to Robin Williams”>'Aladdin' Genie Voice Actor Performs Tribute to Robin Williams;
<p>Very touching poem</p>
<p><a href=“David Letterman pays emotional tribute to Robin Williams”>http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-david-letterman-emotional-tribute-robin-williams-20140819-story.html</a></p>
<p>Different link to Letterman. I could not get the first one to work.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting it. It was indeed touching.</p>
<p>Inside the Actors Studio on Bravo is showing RW right now. James Lipton said one audience member had to be taken to the hospital for a hernia from laughing so hard!</p>
<p>I’m watching YouTube videos of him on Johnny Carson right now. Indescribable! </p>