Robin Williams Suicide Depression Addiction: British Journal Of Psychiatry Finds Creative People Turn To ‘Writing, Humor’ To Escape Depression, Addiction, ‘To Get Out Of Hell’

Robin Williams Suicide Depression Addiction. A report by Forbes identified that a common denominator in the tragic death of actor-comedian Robin Williams was his vast creative mind, which is often intertwined with addiction and depression.
In a similar theory, A.O. Scott proposed in The New York Times, “The only thing faster than his mouth was his mind, which was capable of breathtaking leaps of free-associative absurdity.” Robin Williams’s humor was very ad-lib, and raw.
Alice G. Walton, who writes for forbes.com says that people with a high level of creativity such as writers, artists and of course comedians may have brains that are wired differently from the average person.
It’s surprising for people to fathom how Williams who was sober for over two decades could have relapsed in 2004. The catalyst was the death of his friend, superman, Christopher Reeve, who had suffered injuries. The two actors had attended Julliard together. Apparently, there was an emotional factor following an early death of his friend that Williams was having trouble confronting. How we face death could also be a patter from our family background, and culture.
Incidentally, Robin Williams was one of 108 people who committed suicide on the same day. Furthermore, there are about 15 million people coping the kind of depression that Robin had in the U.S. alone. And all the signs say this is a good turning point to get to know more about addiction and depression, both of which are illnesses that can be treated with psychotherapy or medication. It might be true that actors and actresses check in to rehab at the last minute, when they have lost control of most of their lives. Reports said that Williams had worked non-stop for about two years before checking into rehab.
According to a study conducted by the British Journal of Psychiatry in 2014, there is a strong link between comedic talent and a state similar to psychosis, which might either be an escape or cause of mental illness.
“Being creative – writing, composing, painting and being humorous – might therefore be an outlet,” the study found, “an escape from the pain of depression. The poet and writer Antonin Artaud, who himself experienced serious mental illness, wrote, ‘No one has ever written, painted or sculpted, modeled, built or invented except literally to get out of hell,’” Forbes.com reports.