My Two Cents on Robin Williams' Death

"Logic becomes unreal. Attention and focus fall apart. The brain is just an organ and at some point it says, 'I can't take the pain anymore. I must take myself out.'" This is a quote from Time Magazine in their online article Robin's Pain: The Mystery of Suicide and How to Prevent It.

In August of last year, Robin's death hit me and and DH pretty hard. Harder than I ever thought something like that would. Before I had the courage to come out with the mental illnesses my family faces daily, I posted the following message on my Facebook wall:

Angela's Story - Adolescent Mental Illness

Today I'd like to start with a short story that happened in the fall of 1992. I was thirteen years old. At that point I was about three or four months into my chemotherapy treatments. All of my hair had fallen out by that time and many people told me that I had a very nicely shaped bald head, nearly perfectly round and flawless.

Best Kept Family Secret

Talking about mental illness is scary. Period. End of story! No one wants to talk about it because very few people know what to do about it much less what to say to you if you need support. Others turn their nose and snub mental illness. The biggest blow is when family members or friends simply tell you to "suck it up" and get over it. I mean, we all have problems right? What makes you so special?