It’s been ten years since the world lost one of the best actors and comedians, Robin Williams.
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This artist, who was larger than life, touched millions of hearts. His smile was contagious and he possessed the ability to make everyone laugh. So, when he ended his life, his fans had a hard time understanding how someone so cheerful and fun could die in such a horrific manner.
But there was more to the story than met the eye.
The autopsy revealed that Williams had Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), 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), and not Prskinson’s disease as doctors claimed during his life.
During the last years of his life, Williams’ health started to fail. The man who could memorize thousands of lines without making a single mistake started having trouble remembering on set. Unfortunately, that frustrated him a great deal and led to anxiety. “It was a period for him of intense searching and frustration,” his son Zak said speaking to Max Lugavere for the podcast The Genius Life, as reported by Fox News. “It’s just devastating.”
