Why was Robin Williams suicidal or depressed?

When comedian Robin Williams hanged himself in his California home in August 2014, the news of his death was met with incomprehension around the world. read more

“It was not depression that killed Robin,” Susan told People magazine in one of her first interviews since losing her husband. Instead, she argued that it was a debilitating brain disease called diffuse Lewy body dementia or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) that took hold of Williams, and probably led him to suicide. read more

Even before we learned that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, we didn’t have to look far to find possible causes of profound sadness in Robin Williams’ life. He had acknowledged difficulties with both drugs and alcohol, the latter being a factor in one of his two divorces. read more