Robin Williams has gone down in history as one of the funniest people that has ever lived on this planet. He tragically committed suicide on August 11th, 2014. During his life, he inspired and touched the hearts of many. His death came as a shock and people could not help but wonder how a man so full of cheer could die is such a sad way.
William’s wife is revealing some of the reasons for his death. An autopsy revealed that Robin suffered from Lewy body Dementia (LBD). It is a neurological disease in which protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory, and movement (motor control). Doctors had mistakenly claimed that Williams had Parkinson’s disease.
The Mayo Clinic released an article that said, “people with Lewy body dementia might have visual hallucinations and changes in alertness and attention.”
During the later years of William’s life, his health started to fail. He started making mistakes with lines, even though he used to be able to memorize thousands of lines with no mistakes.
The frustration over changes in his health led to anxiety.
Williams’ wife, Susan Schneider Williams, also opened up about the actor’s misdiagnosis. “All 4 of the doctors I met with afterwards and who had reviewed his records indicated his was one of the worst pathologies they had seen. He had about 40% loss of dopamine neurons and almost no neurons were free of Lewy bodies throughout the entire brain and brainstem,” she wrote.
Just before William’s death, new symptoms started to surface. He had stomach cramps, heartburn, and digestive problems, and later developed a resting tremor in his left hand.
Then Williams started to have issues with his vision and smell, which worried him to the extent that he experienced trouble sleeping, and later, motor disorders that occasionally caused him to freeze in mid-motion.
“Not all of the symptoms will appear at once, like a continuous procession of them,” Susan told New York Times.
“It was similar to a game of whack-a-mole. This month, which symptom is it? Was my husband a hypochondriac, I wondered. We have tried everything as we chase it, but there are no solutions.”
Robin Williams could no longer put up with everything that was going on inside his head and in his life. He took his own life and broke hearts worldwide.
