Robin, you really blindsided us yesterday. I would ask why you couldn’t hang on, stay here with all of us who enjoyed your talents. I would ask that if I didn’t know better. If I didn’t know all about your kind of depression. The kind of depression that wouldn’t matter if you had won the lottery, or if you had lost everything in your life that day. The ‘what if’s’ don’t matter. Which ever way the pendulum is swinging, it doesn’t matter. The dark cloud is always there.
I had hoped you would hang on just a little bit longer so that we would not lose another great mind to this devastating illness. There are little people like us working in the background to raise funds for illnesses like depression and other brain and behavior afflictions with the hope that there will be new cures soon. Just wished you would’ve waited, that’s all. We’ll miss you.
Mike Wallace once said the depths of depression can be so deep it seems impossible to climb up and out. And unfortunately the way out in one’s darkest moment would be the temptation to stop the pain by stopping living. So, so sorry you made that choice. You cannot be replaced.
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I agree. Very sad. Wish someone could have helped.
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We have such great treatments today for this, but no cures. Mike Wallace was on our BBF board and he suffered for over 30 years with this debilitating condition. Such a loss and how dark a place he must have been. Truly sad and depressing for all of us who enjoyed his talents. The difference is that we have the ability to shake it, he didn’t.
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Thank you Sandra for your dedication to increase awareness of this devastating illness.
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