Robin Williams: Major Depressive Disorder Analysis

Robin Williams was known as one of the world’s funnies comedians; however, Williams suffered from many health problems, including major depressive disorder. In an interview with Daily Mail (2014), William’s wife, Susan, informed us that he showed symptoms that activated his restlessness and insomnia; therefore, he had sleeping in a different room from her at night, which irritated him even further. According to Daily Mail (2014), Susan also stated, a pre-suicide activity was when Williams placed his wristwatches in a sock and dropped them off to someone to keep them safe. In 2009, Robin Williams worked on a dark film called World’s Greatest Dad, where the character’s son was found “dead, seated on the floor, leaning forward with a ligature around the neck secured by a belt.” This scene was emotionally …show more content…
“He wasn't returning calls as much. He would send texts and things like that, but they would get shorter and shorter and that was normally like him (Rottenberg, Kaufman & Romney, 2014).” In additional, longtime friend could tell there was something seriously off about Williams, Steven Pearl stated, “He seemed detached. It’s hard to explain. He didn't seem like his usual self.” In 2010, Robin had an interview with Marc Maron on the “WTF” podcast, where he gloomily told Maron he considered suicide at one point. On the “Fresh Air” NPR radio show in 2006, Terry Gross and Williams’s fans were surprised when he became serious and admitted to being sad a lot and having depressed emotions hitting him hard. Robin Williams’s neighbor of many years tried to hold back tears when talking about Robin. His neighbor was one of the last people to see him alive and described him as being “very drawn and thin, and was a shell of himself, exhausted and not in the best spirts; not acting like the up-beat family man I once knew (Zennie & Parker,