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Aug. 13th, 2014 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyWell, I'm certainly not getting sick of seeing posts and articles about Robin Williams and suicide everywhere.
Don't get me wrong, I liked him and think it's really sad, but oh my god, everywhere? And when most of them swing between "depression is depressing, isn't it?" and "tragically beautiful". I could do with a place where those just aren't at the moment. Mainly that's been kink memes and Borderlands 2.
I was volunteering today, and the man who runs the place started up a conversation about it because apparently a lot of people have been calling up and needing counselling over it. He said for him it was just the fact that Robin Williams was a class clown type of figure, and he feels like he was the same and has battled with depression himself, so he was feeling like "what hope was there for him"? We might have had a decent conversation about it, but literally as soon as I opened my mouth to give my own take on it the phone rang and I had to suddenly leave the room while he had a confidential conversation. I ended up in the waiting room for 15 minutes, having forgotten to bring a book or anything, and when I went back in another volunteer had arrived, and I felt a little less comfortable going into my personal history with depression around him. So.
I think for me it's just the fact that Robin Williams seemed so happy, and that he obviously knew about depression and suicidal tendencies and that you should seek help for them. So the fact that he was still overwhelmed by them, and could forget that long enough to actually kill himself - I don't know. It's scary, and sad. But on the other hand, the fact that he knew all about that and was so rich and famous and everything just shows what an irrational impulse it really is. It's got nothing to do with you or what you have or haven't done, or even whether you have or haven't sought treatment. It's just a disease. And you've just got to try to remember to seek help when you feel that low, and that there are hopefully other ways to deal with the disease than killing yourself.
I don't know. I don't really want to get into it. I wish it wasn't everywhere. It's no fun for the depressed OCD-riddled person. Also, I can see the irony of making a post about how many posts there are about Robin Williams. Obviously.
I think it's a horrible shame about Robin Williams. But I think it's still important to see depression as a disease, not a hopeless cause or a beautiful tragedy. Robin Williams died of depression. Let's hope no-one else does anytime soon, or that we can start to bring the numbers down.
Don't get me wrong, I liked him and think it's really sad, but oh my god, everywhere? And when most of them swing between "depression is depressing, isn't it?" and "tragically beautiful". I could do with a place where those just aren't at the moment. Mainly that's been kink memes and Borderlands 2.
I was volunteering today, and the man who runs the place started up a conversation about it because apparently a lot of people have been calling up and needing counselling over it. He said for him it was just the fact that Robin Williams was a class clown type of figure, and he feels like he was the same and has battled with depression himself, so he was feeling like "what hope was there for him"? We might have had a decent conversation about it, but literally as soon as I opened my mouth to give my own take on it the phone rang and I had to suddenly leave the room while he had a confidential conversation. I ended up in the waiting room for 15 minutes, having forgotten to bring a book or anything, and when I went back in another volunteer had arrived, and I felt a little less comfortable going into my personal history with depression around him. So.
I think for me it's just the fact that Robin Williams seemed so happy, and that he obviously knew about depression and suicidal tendencies and that you should seek help for them. So the fact that he was still overwhelmed by them, and could forget that long enough to actually kill himself - I don't know. It's scary, and sad. But on the other hand, the fact that he knew all about that and was so rich and famous and everything just shows what an irrational impulse it really is. It's got nothing to do with you or what you have or haven't done, or even whether you have or haven't sought treatment. It's just a disease. And you've just got to try to remember to seek help when you feel that low, and that there are hopefully other ways to deal with the disease than killing yourself.
I don't know. I don't really want to get into it. I wish it wasn't everywhere. It's no fun for the depressed OCD-riddled person. Also, I can see the irony of making a post about how many posts there are about Robin Williams. Obviously.
I think it's a horrible shame about Robin Williams. But I think it's still important to see depression as a disease, not a hopeless cause or a beautiful tragedy. Robin Williams died of depression. Let's hope no-one else does anytime soon, or that we can start to bring the numbers down.
