{"id":6250,"date":"2014-08-12T12:11:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T12:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/12\/depression-takes-center-stage\/"},"modified":"2014-08-12T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T12:11:56","slug":"depression-takes-center-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6250","title":{"rendered":"Depression takes center stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When an iconic artist and performer takes his own life at a time when he ought to be on top of the world, well, then you start examining the demons that drove him to that tragic end.<\/p>\n

Robin Williams’s apparent suicide Monday has brought depression to the public fore.<\/p>\n

As it should.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/movies.msn.com\/movies\/article.aspx?news=881808<\/p>\n

Williams was one of the world’s most dynamic entertainers. His talent was seemingly without limits. His comic genius sprang from a mind with an incalculable amount of material rolling around in it, which he unleashed with hysterical fury almost without warning.<\/p>\n

He made people laugh to the point of crying.<\/p>\n

Williams had his demons. They involved alcoholism and drug abuse. They cost him at least one marriage, maybe more.<\/p>\n

Internationally acclaimed entertainers, superstars and assorted celebrities have left us from all manner of illness: AIDS, Alzheimer’s, various forms of cancer.<\/p>\n

Yes, depression is a killer, too.<\/p>\n

Robin Williams’s tragic end will bring this disease to our national attention.<\/p>\n

Let’s have this discussion as we mourn our national loss.<\/p>\n\n

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