This week, the world wept as one of the greatest entertainers of our time was taken from us far too soon. Robin Williams was a great man, a fantastic comic actor- Hell, a great actor all-round. He was the personification of fun, the party incarnate. Everywhere he went, everything he appeared in, he injected raw, chaotic, passionate energy into.

Underneath this effervescent exterior, however, lay the dark recesses of depression and dependence. Robin Williams had struggled with the black dog for a very long time, and it finally overwhelmed him this week. read more