Mental Illness - Something that Society yet does not understand.

Robin Williams is just the latest in the many many many people who have taken their lives due to some form of mental illness.  Robin Williams will be missed by many for his wit, for his slap stick humour, for his ability to make people laugh.  He will be missed by many and by all who saw him as an individual who engaged people in his characters.

Society  has no real grasp of what Mental Illness is.  Society has no real grasp of what causes Mental Illness.  We struggle to understand the effects of the many varieties of mental illness, how it develops in the individual, and why the outcome is always (in many cases) appears to be suicide.

Depression is the main cause of mental illness.  We really don't know why depression does what it does.  It has been studied, it has been analyzed, it has been drug prescribed and yet mental illness is the leading killer of people with mental illness.

There is a lot of work to be done, but we as individuals need to try to understand depression.  We need to understand how it destroys lives and how it cripples families.  Instead of pity for those who suffer, we need to understand these individuals and learn how to help them deal with depression. 

Depression can strike anyone, at any time, for any reason, and we need to understand what is going on and help the person deal with these problems.

There's a lot more that I need to write but I also need to learn more.

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