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Short YouTube talk by Dr. Don Wood analyzing Robin Williams’ suicide. The speaker links Williams’ apparent public happiness to hidden pain from childhood trauma and substance use, argues suicide and addiction can be understood as immediate solutions to stop present psychological pain, and offers a reframing that suicidal thoughts may be about ending pain rather than wanting death.

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