if you have any questions regarding health, fitness or beauty, just facebook or tweet me at the addresses below. that's all for today. time goes so fast. until next time, i hope you're learning to be more of a healthy you. i'm leland vitter. time now for "sunday housecall." >> and i'm molly line. welcome. >> joining us, dr. mark siegel, professor of medicine at nyu's medical center. also author of "unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." >> and dr. david samadi chairman and professor of urology and chief of robotic surgery. >> good to see you guys. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for being here, the big news story here that it happened over the past week was

the death of robin williams. we wanted to play a clip of him that everyone will remember and then we'll begin talking. >> medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. to quote from whitman, oh, me, oh, life of the questions of these recurring, of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities filled with the foolish, what good amid these, oh, me, oh, life. answer, that you are here, that life exists, and identity, but the powerful play goes on and you in the universe. >> that was "dead poet's society" starring robin williams. just one of his many iconic

movie roles. williams passed away in weekend at the age of 63, a coroner's report saying that he hanged himself. his family says that he had been suffering from depression and anxiety and recently diagnosed with parkinson's disease. we'll begin with dr. siegel on that. what is most likely to have played a stronger role? we know that he had a very long battle with addiction as well. >> that's a great question, i think it's a combination of many factors, it's the drinking, it's the history of drug use, it's the severe depression he was suffering from, then the parkinson's disease has a very high association with worsening depression. he says wait a minute, how long can i make those facial expressions, how long can i dance on stage, how long can i make movements without trembling. but i have to tell you, but i think an internist, a primary care doctor is usually the first stop for this and i'll tell you why. 60 or 70% of the people that come into my office are coming in for anxiety or depression related issues.

they may say they have a cough or a muscle ache, they're not doing as well as i would like, they're anxious, they're depressed. and i have learned over the years, and i actually lost my best friends to suicide before i became a physician. i sent several people to the er with suicidal thoughts and plans. i have learned to look for hopelessness, to look for a plan. you have suicidal thoughts, but do you have a plan? if someone has a plan in place, you have to get them emergency treatment. you look also for weight loss, change in habits of behavior, are they eating what they usually do, are they exercising? what about their relationships? are they withdrawing? if you get a warning call from a family member saying, hey, you know, my husband, my wife is not acting right. >> or it just doesn't feel right. how often are these types of suicidal thoughts and possibly leading to suicide linked to a diagnosis? you all of a sudden you see a patient and you diagnose him with cancer or some type of

life-changing illness, how often does that trigger these kinds of things? >> that's a very important thing that you're saying, we should be treating depression actually like heart disease or diabetes, there's signs and symptoms that we want people to know. if there's a lack of sleep, if there's behavioral changes, all of a sudden the person is not interested in social activities, they are not eating well, they have this guilty and feeling of worthlessness. now all of a sudden he's not as useful and then it goes on and on to anxiety and depression. the last chapter of this whole thing is really suicide. so what we want people to know is to recognize the same signs and symptoms and there's also 1-800-273-talk. if you see someone who's suffering from these kinds of symptoms, don't leave them alone. you want to make sure that you get help. call 1-800-273-talk and i will post this on the facebook. it's extremely important. one of the things he said in one of his movies, is that when you treat a disease, this is robin

williams, you either win or you lose, when you treat the whole person, i guarantee you win. we had a chance to save him, he came for rehab. you have to look at his life. he was suffering from depression. all the risks were there. this is a person that had the addiction. i think john belushi actually saved his life, delayed the process for about 20 years. and parkinson's. he also went through three marriages which by itself could be a risk factor. we know that as a comedian, now there's two times higher risk of suicide, how long are you going to live that kind of hyperenergy, kind of almost manic, remembering the movie, "good morning vietnam" keeping that up for on and on and on. >> how much do you see that in terms of when you have people who appear so happy, who appear to be the life of the party, is that often times a mask for a depressed person? >> there's no question about that, and it's a great point.

and i think in his case, look at the roles he played. he played patch adams who was a physician who was in a mental institution literally and then went back and became heart felt and learned to take care of people emotionally. in a way i think he was looking for a patch adams in his own life. i don't know if he had it or not. i think maybe he was making the world smile because he couldn't smile. this is a disease, it's got a lot of stigma attached to it. there's been a lot of talk on tv, was he selfish because people were hurt in his wake? that's not now you look at it. the earlier we find it the better, if it gets treated early enough with anti-depressants and therapy, you can make a difference. >> let me just add one more thing that we just didn't mention. in 2009, he underwent an aortic valve replacement which was heart surgery and also a real depression that comes after a lot of these major summers.

>> there's a lot of other people suffering the same sort of challenges in life. >> exactly the point of covering this segment is that we want people to be aware of these patients. don't leave them alone. there's a treatment for depression. they can get well. but just diagnosing it is very important and you can save lives. these are people who live two lives, they're happy in the morning and they're locked in their own dark cage and suicide is an escape. it's basically just getting rid of this pain that they live with. >> and the parkinson's side. parkinson's tend to do very well on anti-depressants and another interesting fact is that you get it before you get the symptoms, the brain hormones change. so even before you see it. i actually talked to a top neurologist who said he could see in robin williams face, in the crazy ones, some early signs of parkinson's. but even before you start to lose the motor function, you can respond to the anti-depressants. you provided me with a number and you mention add number

earlier today. >> you had mentioned a number earlier, 1-800-273-talk. >> ask for help. >> and ask for help. and not just for the people that were suffering, who might be thinking about suicide. but it's so difficult for people that are watching their loved ones suffer. >> exactly, family members. >> get some guidance. >> it gives family members some place to be able to go and look for help and hopefully not end up in a situation that robin williams found their families in. there could be a new hope for those struggling to get a good night's sleep. the government's just approving a brand new drug for insomnia, but it comes with a big warning. so should you take it? our doctors are going to weigh in on that, coming up. it? our doctors are going to weigh in on that, coming up.

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is that michael brown was not just some young black boy. he was a human being. he was a younger cousin. he was a son. he was a uncle, a feonephew. he was not a subject. he was not an animal. but that's how he was killed. this was the last actions that our family member made before he put -- before he went to rest. this will be stuck in my family's memories for the rest of our lives. so when you protest, love for

all y'all. [ applause ] >> at this time, we will -- [ applause ] >> now, there's going to be a lot said in the next 48 hours and even more said after that about leslie and michael's

child. just know that this was their child. and they love their child. they had every right for their child to have due process of the law. what is due process, you say? due process is when i put my hands in the air, you don't execute me because you had a bad day. when i put my hands in the air, you don't decide to be judge, jury, and executioner on that day. what is due process, you say, attorney gray? that you don't leave my body on the concrete for four hours. that ain't due process. that ain't dignity for leslie's son. so when we say what we here for today united for justice for

michael brown jr., what we're really asking for is simple gestures. we're not asking for anything extraordinary. they just want what anybody else would want if their children was shot down in broad daylight. a fair and impartial investigation. they want to know that they will have their day in court, that the killer of their child will be held accountable to the full extent of the law. reverend, they saying we having an arrest of judgment. it wasn't an arrest of judgment when they left him down there for four hours trying to get their story together. when they tried to assonate his character on friday. so y'all we stand with this family so they won't be by

themselves and they know they're not going to be by themselves. remember the same feeling you have right now because five, six months when they finish this investigation and they -- they just going to smear his name, they going to say everything about him, but just know he had a right as an american citizen sent to due process of the law. without -- without further adieu, leslie's father made a call around the same time they reached out to me to a civil rights pioneer, much in the same vein as reverend jesse jackson and the same vein as benjamin hooks, the same vein as the

martin luther king jr. and he's going to talk about that legacy, but his grandfather called my friend, reverend al sharp ton. and like he always does, reverend sharpton answered the bell. so the parents wanted to come up to the podium just to thank you for answering the bell for their child michael brown jr. please give a round of applause for reverend al sharpton. [ applause ] >> let me say -- >> we're going to pull out right now. we've been keeping an eye on this rally and gathering of the

parents there. you can see them stepping up. their son michael brown killed a little more than a week ago. they've been there at this rally in ferguson where we've seen a number of speakers come up and talk to the community, including captain ron johnson who had previously been credited with pulling this community together. the parents stepped up to the microphone but chose not to speak at this rally today, taking a seat again. the parents of michael brown taking their seat amongst the crowd now as this rally continues in ferg sob. and we await now as night gets closer to falling, some of the challenges the police department and the entire community have faced. they've been going back and forth over the recent days trying to work toward some sort of healing and coming together of the community. during this rally, captain johnson stepped up to the microphone there and talked about this is what he wanted the nation to see when they looked

at ferguson and not the pictures we saw in the previous nights were there was violence. one of the things that they've dope to try and pull this community together and find healing there on the ground in what has proven to be a very difficult situation for this community. certainly the eyes of the nation are on this community and also monitoring events in the evening hours as well. captain johnson saying his heart was heavy, but as long as it takes he'll be in that community and listening throughout. that's where things stand right now as we watch that difficult situation. we return you now back to the news. thanks for watching. now for should i worry. it's our weekly segment about everything that actually worries us. this viewer asks i get strong na

shah at least four times a day every day. it sounds like something at very least quite uncomfortable. >> i would wouldn't say a day two, it could be food poisoning. you could have picked up a staph or a bacteria or you could have picked up something at a barbecue you went to. another possibility is -- we're going to bring you back now to that rally that's happening in ferguson. the church services where the reverend al sharpton is speaking as we've been monitoring all of the circumstances around the death of michael brown. let's listen in. >> some of the senators talking. but where are the leading candidates for president? jeb bush? hillary clinton? don't get laryngitis on this issue. nobody can go to the white house lest they stop by our house and talk about it.

let me be clear. when the grandfather called me and i came and met with the father and mother, i told them, i'm not no drive-by accident. we'll be here until justice is achieved. let me be real clear. i know they're going to smear michael. they may even try to smear the parents. they're going to call the lawyers' names. they're going to call me names. but i come from brooklyn, a section called do-or-die bed-stuy.

i've been in the movement, joe madison, since i was a teenager. you directed operation breadbasket under reverend jackson. i was 13. in all of my life, i've never seen nothing more despicable than while this mother and this father and their families haven't even had the time to bury their son, the police chief would release a tape trying to disparage his name while his mama's still weeping, while the family hasn't even laid him to rest. how can the young folk of the city believe in a system that would try to spit on the name and character of a young man who

hasn't even been buried? then you have to come out and say, well, it had nothing to do with the shooting. then why did you put it out? first of all, let me tell the media, the tape i saw -- let me talk about they've got a tape of this great robbery. i saw a tape of some young guy that may have been shoplifting. there's a difference between robbing and shoplifting. now, i don't condone either, but you don't have to stretch it to help a smear campaign.

but the issue is not whether he sh shoplifted. the issue is not what he did before. the issue is how a young man with no deadly threat, no life-extenuating circumstances was shot multiple times. that's the issue, and that's the issue america's got to deal with. we don't want no double talking. we don't want no -- we want to know where justice is. we heard tonight from officer johnson. we're not anti-police. we don't think all police are bad. we're not anti-sitting down and

solving the problem. but there's a difference. between calling for peace and calling for quiet. peace means that we have equal protection under the law. quiet means you shut up in silence. we are not going to shut up. we're going to come together and have a real peace in this country. let me tell you of one misnomer. they say, well, why is the family calling about the federal government coming in? officer of the federal government coming in. one, if you look at what the chief did, you know why the local people can't trust local authorities. how are you going to trust them that smear a victim to bring the

issue before anybody? second, i've got experience in this. i've been involved in the weaver movement. those cops were prosecuted. i was involved in rodney king. supported anthony baez. so i have a record of knowing what these federal laws do. race is not required in a federal case of civil rights if law enforcement is involved. excessive force by the state is a violation of civil rights. so why y'all running around, media, looking for something that don't need to be there? we never proved race. we proved excessive force by the state. so there is clear federal

exposure here. let me say this to bring my brother on. we want an action plan. we have said to our young folk, we understand the anger. we are angry. but you're not more angry than the parents. and while you show some of the young people out of control, show some of the young people that went out there last night and night before last and helped clean up and stand up in their neighborhood. this is not about generations. there are young people that want justice that know how to protest peacefully. some are angry and out of control. others are taking advantage of you. and don't take advantage of their child.

there's a difference between an activist and a thug. don't loot in michael's name. we are not looters. we are li burners. we are builders. three things. one, we are going to have a dignified, an incomparable service for their son. the day they choose to lay him to rest, we don't want nothing to move but showing our commitment to justice for this

family. second, we want to deal with the militarization of police in this count country, the shocking display of military operations. we saw millions of dollars roll down all kinds of military equipment like you were at war with your citizens. if you've got enough money to bring all that equipment in here, you've got money for jobs for these young people. >> you've been watching in ferguson, missouri, at a rally at a church service there. this, of course, the reverend al sharpton speaking before a huge group of supporters.

the family members of michael brown also on the ground there. they stepped up to the microphone but didn't actually speak during this service and rally. leslie mcfadden and michael brown sr. stepping up but not actually speaking out loud. we did hear from captain ron johnson who, of course, has been credited with bringing such peace and communication in some instances back to this really a fragile community that's still dealing with the circumstances of everything surrounding the death of michael brown. and this rally continues. more news as the night falls, as things happen there in ferguson. we're, of course, monitoring developments and will bring you the latest news on all of that. we'll take you now to "media buzz." >> let's move. let's move. let's move this way. here's the door. this way or this way. >> is the press helping to inflame another racially charged controversy? and how has the release of that shoplifting video changed the media narrative? and "atlantic monthly" interview with