Posted by LostBoyinNC45 on August 18, 2014, at 13:06:28
In reply to Re: what gets me on William's suicide..., posted by Phillipa on August 16, 2014, at 18:45:26
is normally treatable.
Frankly, Im skeptical of these family claims of Williams having been diagnosed with parkinsons. Sometimes, people will go to the ends of the Earth to not admit they are afflicted with a form of mental illness. They will claim they are or were afflicted with something else to avoid what they perceive as the ultimate public shame...being mentally ill.
Also, Parkinsons patients, especially younger ones, are notorious for having conservative personalities prior to the onset of parkinsons. They even have a name for it, its called "Parkinsons personality." Basically it entails being a sort of reserved, conservative person and parkinsons patients almost never smoked or used tobacco or recreational drugs (or had booze problems), because all are heavily associated with higher dopamine levels. Parkinsons patients usually dont gamble or engage in "high risk" activities.
Williams came across to me not as an excessively conservative person and the alcohol problem does not jibe with having early onset parkinsons.
Still, even if Williams really did get diagnosed with Parkinsons recently, it was obviously early stage. The severe depression component that IS oftentimes common in parkinsons disease, that is treatable (somewhat). With the money that guy had, he could have probably afforded lifetime ECTs in the very best hospital in America by the very best ECT doctors and ECT has an excellent reputation for treating the worst clinical depression as well as being used as an off label treatment for parkinsons disease.
I dont buy the "it was parkinsons disease" claim. It sounds like a line, to me. Maybe he did have parkinsons disease, but what evidently caused the guy's death was plain old fashioned severe and recalcitrant denial regarding having a form of mental illness. In other words, its the same old song dance. SSDD.
Eric AKA "LostBoyinNC"
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