October 4, 2016.
Two years after the death of the American actor, Robin Williams, his widow, Susan Schneider Williams, writes a heartbreaking story about the neurodegenerative disease that plagued her husband.
An ordeal for the actor and his wife
More than 2 years ago, Robin Williams was found hanged in his Californian home. He was 63 years old and suffered from a particularly severe form of Lewy body dementia, a neurodegenerative pathology, derived from Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, which the doctor will not diagnose until after his death.
It all started in 2013, during the shooting of the film Night at the museum 3. The actor suffers from insomnia, loss of memory, smell, anxiety attacks, paranoia and panic. The drugs prescribed by doctors are useless, and the long ordeal begins for Robin Williams. A hell that pushes the actor to end his life.
A story to help doctors and patients
Today, star’s widow Susan reveals in essay entitled The terrorist in my husband’s brain, published in the scientific journal Neurology. The goal is to help patients, but also doctors To ” understand their patients, their spouses and those around them “, in order to “ make a difference in the lives of other patients. Says the actor’s wife.
Susan Schneider Williams has been actively involved since the actor’s death for research at the American Brain Foundation, and remains “ convinced that if a cure arises from Robin’s experience, then he will not have died in vain. “
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