Wednesday, 13 August 2014

Robin Williams - the depression of his life PosTrigger Over 30 years fought Robin Williams with problems. With his addiction he went to open. Finally depression were added. Speculation about the sadness in Robin Williams’ life. Robin Williams brought us with his films often laugh, but he himself was apparently only rarely thereafter. The...

Over 30 years fought Robin Williams with problems. With his addiction he went to open. Finally depression were added. Speculation about the sadness in Robin Williams’ life.


Robin Williams brought us with his films often laugh, but he himself was apparently only rarely thereafter. The Hollywood star was not only problem. “He struggled lately against depression,” his spokeswoman Mara told, without going into details. But what are the reasons for this inner conflict? Why did he have such a struggle? A search for clues.


In affluent circumstances Williams was born in 1951 in Chicago. Because of the activities of his father as a senior executive at Ford, he has to move frequently in his youth. Real friendships he can hardly make. Only at the age of 21 years, Williams is at the prestigious drama school Julliard’s in New York in his classmate Christopher Reeves a true friend. But after three years they split up again. Reeves stays in the East Coast metropolis, Williams moved to San Francisco. Again he is alone.


But the loneliness was afraid Williams. Perhaps that was one reason why half of his life was dominated. In the late 70s and early 80s – as the series “Mork & Mindy” helped him to break through – began his struggle. The magazine “Galore” he once said, you have on the set of “Popeye” was for me a place to hide. Most people will turn up on coke. Myself it has rather brought down, said Williams in 1988 the “People” magazine.


Even his 1978 marriage to Valerie Velardi closed first did not seem to move him to rethink. Only after the death of his friend John Belushi, who at the age of 33 years died in 1982 after a Party, and the birth of his son Zachary in 1983, Williams changed his life. “The tragedy at Belushi was scary,” he told the magazine “People”. “His death frightened a whole group of people from the show business. It led to a major shift away. And what I was concerned, I was expecting a baby. I knew I could not be a father and at the same time lead this kind of life. ”


The Hollywood star went to rehab and was treat. Apparently successfully: A year later he was free. Williams’ career began to flourish again. He made films like “Good Morning, Vietnam” (1987), “The Dead Poets Society” (1989) or “Good Will Hunting” (1997), for which he won the Oscar. But after 20 years of absence, he became in 2006 a relapse. Immediately, Williams pointed again in rehab. The “New York Times” he said later that he had not worked up the problems of its underlying dependency.


His relapse have snuck says Williams, even as early as 2003. At that time he was at a film shoot in Alaska. “I was in a small town, not the end of the world, but you could see it from there, and then I thought. Drinking I just thought, hey, maybe drink helps I felt alone and afraid. And it was the worst in the world, what I could do, “he told the British” Guardian “. From this new crash also his second marriage never recovered. His wife Marsha Garces filed for divorce in 2008 after 19 years a. With it, Williams had a daughter and a son. In 2011 he married his third wife Susan Schneider.


The reasons for the renewed therapy stay Williams said in a 2006 interview in the U.S. breakfast television. He thought he could make out the problems even several years. “But you can not. This is the end result,” he revealed in the show “Good Morning America”. His relapse was run for him “gradually”. “You’re standing on a ledge and look down, and then there is a voice, a very small voice that tells you, ‘Spring’,” Williams illustrated his situation. It was the same voice that had then told him “just a drink.” But that was just impossible for someone to “no scope” for such a thing.


And maybe came at last even to his addiction problems also professional fear of failure added. For his sitcom “The Crazy Ones” was canceled after only one season from the U.S. television network CBS in May 2014 due to weak rates. In July this year, Williams was again instruct in an addiction clinic. This time there had been no relapse but he did tell. Rather, the actor wanted to counteract another crash. Yet the small voice in his head was apparently stronger. Now Williams’ laughter is gone. What remains is sadness. A feeling that he actually never wanted to convey.






Robin Williams - the depression of his life

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