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Robin Williams, Bipolar Sufferer, Dead at 63 Due to Suicide

Williams had long struggled with addiction and mental illness. ¹ “Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes,” Williams told Terry Gross on the “Fresh Air” NPR radio show in 2006. “Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.”