Ek het voorheen 'n plasing gedeel oor Robin Williams. Het vandag hierdie raakgelees op die gevreetboek en deel dit graag weer want wat vir my hierdie keer uitgestaan het is die feit dat Robin dalk te skaam/bang/beangs was om te erken dat hy hallusinasies ervaar het:
Susan Schneider, Robin Williams' wife, has become a WONDERFUL advocate & educator about Lewy Body Dementia!
"Williams was eventually diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in May 2014.
In her editorial piece written for Neurology, she noted that his symptoms escalated to problems with paranoia and insomnia.
Autopsy results show a 40 percent loss of dopamine neuron and the late comedian’s widow shares the heartbreaking symptom he likely hid from her.
She wrote: “I experienced my brilliant husband being lucid with clear reasoning 1 minute and then, 5 minutes later blank, lost in confusion.”
In 2014, the world was shocked to learn of comedy genius Robin Williams’ death by suicide at age 63.
Adding salt to the wound was the heartbreaking news of his diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and his suffering from Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), one of the rarest but most deadly brain conditions.
Unbeknownst to fans, Williams began exhibiting symptoms in 2013. One year later, fans, friends, and family of the Good Will Hunting actor would be grieving such a devastating loss.
According to Schneider, when she and Williams first attended a neurologist’s office,
“Robin had a chance to ask some burning questions.
He asked, ‘Do I have Alzheimer’s? Dementia? Am I schizophrenic?’
The answers were the best we could have gotten: No, no, no.
There were no indications of these other diseases. It is apparent to me now that he was most likely keeping the depth of his symptoms to himself.”
However, upon consultation with a neurologist, Williams was informed that he had neither Alzheimer's nor was he schizophrenic.
In fact, he encountered “nearly all of the 40-plus symptoms of LBD, except for one.”
In a piece the actor-comedian’s widow, Susan Schneider, wrote for Neurology, she states her husband never said he had hallucinations.
Nevertheless, doctors later noted he might have been concealing symptoms from those close to him, suffering in silence.
After Williams’ death, Schneider consulted four doctors who all agreed the case was the “worse pathologies they had seen.”
