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10-02-2016, 06:48 AM
Robin Williams' widow pens touching essay about his final year
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Robin Williams' widow Susan Schneider Williams has shone a light on her husband's mental and physical struggles during the last year of his life in a powerful personal essay.
Titled "The terrorist inside my husband's brain" and published in the scientific journal Neurology (http://www.neurology.org/content/87/13/1308.full), Schneider details how Williams failed to be diag**sed with the "little-k**wn but deadly" Lewy body disease (LBD) before he committed suicide in 2014 (http://mashable.com/2014/08/11/robin-williams-dead-dies-at-63/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial). LBD is a form of dementia that most frequently affects the elderly.
"My husband was trapped in the twisted architecture of his neurons and ** matter what I did I could **t pull him out," she writes. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/01/susan-schneider-robin-williams-lbd-essay/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Robin Williams' widow Susan Schneider Williams has shone a light on her husband's mental and physical struggles during the last year of his life in a powerful personal essay.
Titled "The terrorist inside my husband's brain" and published in the scientific journal Neurology (http://www.neurology.org/content/87/13/1308.full), Schneider details how Williams failed to be diag**sed with the "little-k**wn but deadly" Lewy body disease (LBD) before he committed suicide in 2014 (http://mashable.com/2014/08/11/robin-williams-dead-dies-at-63/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial). LBD is a form of dementia that most frequently affects the elderly.
"My husband was trapped in the twisted architecture of his neurons and ** matter what I did I could **t pull him out," she writes. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/01/susan-schneider-robin-williams-lbd-essay/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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