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Robin Williams’ son Zak reveals new details about father’s depression

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candid conversation included their mutual struggles with depression, anxiety and the pain of watching a loved one be consumed by a debilitating neurodegenerative disease: dementia with Lewy bodies.

Both Lugavere and Williams have watched a parent suffer through the “frustrating” illness — the pain of which has left a lasting impact on both men.It was a poignant conversation to debut on the day that would have been Robin’s 70th birthday, on July 21. “What I saw was frustration,” said Williams of his father’s diagnosis and misdiagnosis.

About two years before his death by suicide in 2014, doctors told Williams that he had Parkinson’s disease, a disorder of the central nervous system that affects movement, causing its signature tremors.

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