If you've ever been depressed you "understand" the thought of suicide.

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102. He DID talk about it through his entire career

Robin Williams was open about his bipolar diagnosis. He was very public about the challenges. He was a "poster boy" for the mental health community for years. HE acknowledge in many interviews that his creative "schtick" was a result of his bipolar mania.

That fact makes his loss even harder for all of us who fear the same outcomes for our loved ones. My post was less about "survivor guilt" than it was a hope that people will add mental illness to the list of diseases that the masses will run for, walk for, wear ribbons for, and lobby for.

The mentally ill are not often sympathetic characters. There is more energy put toward the situation for rescue animals than toward one of the most destructive health conditions that human beings in our society faces.