I haven’t been a fan of his comedy since Mork & Mindy and I think his public wackiness overshadowed his acting. He was truly a genius at acting…so versatile and so believable in his roles. I guess that’s because he was always acting. We probably never saw the real Robin Williams.
Well, damn. not another one. I have to admit I’ve never been a huge Robin Williams fan. I loved Mork & Minday when it first came out, but I wonder how much of that was due to it being my stoner days. After that, I started finding his antics too childish, way over the top. But I loved his dramatic turns. I haven’t looked through the entire thread, but has anyone mentioned One Hour Photo (2002)? That’s one of my favorites of his.
RIP, Robin. Nanu nanu. 
I have no words. Robin Williams is one of the few celebrities who I was aware of, and this shocks me. I did not know he battled depression.
It’s such a shame that the most talented minds can also be the most tortured souls.
RIP, Robin Williams.
Genius is sometimes hard to live with. They see the world in ways the rest of us just miss. We, the “normal” people, just can’t understand their struggle.
R.I.P. Mr. Williams.
Like too many other moments, this one will be burned in my brain. He is too soon gone from us.
Suicide while inconveniencing as many people as possible is selfish. Asphyxiation in one’s home? Not so much.
Sad …
Sorry.
Dammit.
Tell that to the person/people who found him.
Please stop the hijack - its a worthy conversation, but should be elsewhere.
Shocking celebrity deaths for me:
John Lennon
Johnny Carson
George Carlin
Robin Williams
Everyone else was a meh.
For me it was:
Michael Jackson
Robin Williams.
RIP.
And Philip Seymour Hoffman. That one was a shocker for me.
For me,
Whitney Houston
is on that list as well.
There is no “about” needed for depression.
Sadness is feeling bad when shitty stuff happens. It passes.
Depression is feeling like that even when good stuff is happening. It doesn’t pass without some form of treatment.
Something shitty happening CAN send a person prone to depression into a downward spiral, but so can boredom or nothing at all.
This just sucks. Poor man.
R.I.P.
Sadly, here he delivered a suicide prevention message: Vine
A commenter on Metafilter pointed out his 2010 appearance on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast. At about 52:00 he recalled an occasion when the idea of suicide occurred to him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5E6SCcDcuE
I wondered this, too.
Yes, me too, the very first thing.
Steve Irwin and Princess Diana were the two that momentarily tugged at my sense of reality. When I read on CNN.com that Princess Diana had been killed, the first thought that went through my head was “no, it can’t be her—it must be somebody else with the same name.”