[unfiltered] Robin Williams, Bipolar Disorder, and Suicide

[elialshadowpine]

At this point, I don't think there's anyone who hasn't heard about Robin Williams's death, ostensibly from suicide. Something that does bother me, perhaps more than the assholes that make comments about suicide being the coward's way out (and if this is something lurking in the back of your head, please read this essay, which is the most excellent

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[ashbet]

Can't say much through this migraine, but yes. All of this. and Naamah's post, too

[elialshadowpine]

*hugs

[ashbet]

Not everyone has the same EDS progression -- sorry, I don't mean to make it sound entirely bleak, my family has been so hard-hit that I'm mostly speaking of my own experiences and those of Kira

[elialshadowpine]

I'll let Bridgette (Boo; I've sometimes mentioned her by her nickname) read this message. She's pretty upset, because it's something she really wanted to do. Acupuncture is a good suggestion; I actually suggested, since she's going into college and would be able to transfer credits to, say, UW, tech work. Morgan, as a systems administrator, works from home because so much server work is done on the cloud now, so they only rarely have to go to the office in Seattle. Their work has been very accommodating; they started out rarely needing to work from home, to needing to work from home more regularly, to working from home almost entirely. But that's an entirely different field, and I don't know how much interest she would have in that