Robin Williams' widow describes "the terrorist inside my husband's brain": How to prepare for an uncertain future today
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR SEPTEMBER 03, 2020
A documentary reveals the tragic final months of comedian Robin Williams' life. Today's podcast tells this story, then we discuss a historic political loss by a Kennedy in Massachusetts, focus on the psalmist's testimony of joy, and discover how to prepare for the future today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.6 | Robin Williams won an Academy Award, six Golden Globe Awards, five Grammy Awards, two |
| 0:26.6 | Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. |
| 0:30.6 | In the listing of the 25 funniest people of all time, he was ranked first, but his remarkable |
| 0:36.6 | success in popularity could not insulate him from the pain of this time. He was ranked first. But his remarkable success in popularity could not insulate him |
| 0:40.2 | from the pain of this broken world. He dealt with cocaine and alcohol addictions, heart problems, |
| 0:46.6 | and severe depression before taking his life in 2014. Now we know the rest of the story. A documentary, |
| 0:57.2 | Robbins Wish, captures the actor's battle with Louis Body Dementia, LBD, a type of brain disease that affected his thinking, memory, and |
| 1:03.4 | movement control. This is the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer's |
| 1:09.2 | disease. However, Williams was misdiagnosed by doctors. |
| 1:13.6 | It wasn't until years after his death that his family discovered the truth of his internal |
| 1:18.6 | battle. His widow, Susan Schneider Williams, called LBD, the terrorist inside my husband's brain. |
| 1:28.6 | In other celebrity news, a Kennedy lost an election in Massachusetts for the first time ever |
| 1:34.6 | when Senator Ed Markey defeated Representative Joe Kennedy III in their Democratic primary. |
| 1:41.4 | John F. Kennedy was elected to the House of Representatives from Massachusetts |
| 1:45.2 | in 1946, serving six years before his election to the Senate in 1952 and 1958, and his election |
| 1:53.6 | as president in 1960. His brother Robert was elected to the Senate from New York. Ted Kennedy |
| 1:59.9 | was elected to John's seat in the Senate, |
| 2:02.6 | serving until his death in 2009. Joseph P. Kennedy II, Robert's son, and Patrick J. Kennedy, |
| 2:10.4 | Ted's son, both served in the U.S. House of Representatives, as did Joseph P. Kennedy III, Robert's |
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