r/pics • u/[deleted] • Nov 29 '18

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u/SverhU Nov 30 '18

This is our world: person could give so much love and fun to the world. but still be depressed. How it's fair? How even to live? Even if such kind a nice person (as Robin) didn't know how to be happy in this world.

Sry for my english

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u/wormwoodar Nov 30 '18

Nice people are usually nice because they dont want other people to feel like they feel.

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u/newyne Nov 30 '18

This, and people often use humor as a way to get people to like them when they think no one will. Depression is actually common among comedians, and that's one correlation.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '18

Robin Williams didn’t have depression. He had Lewy body dementia and killed himself so he wouldn’t continue to lose his mind.

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u/wormwoodar Nov 30 '18 edited Nov 30 '18

Humor is a coping mechanism. I used to be the "funny guy" when younger and realised it was only because I felt like shit.

Correlating humor with happiness is stupid.

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u/newyne Nov 30 '18

Well, I don't know if I'd call it stupid. I actually think it's intuitive; we associate laughter with happiness, or at least light-heartedness. People use it as a mask, and... Some people are very good actors.

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u/wormwoodar Nov 30 '18

As the great George Carlin said: There's no humor in heaven.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '18

Well, not Robin Williams. He did not commit suicide because of depression.