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Yet Another Prespective

There is something however about Alireza studying Iranian pre-ISlam history at Harvard which realy bothers me. As a regular Iranian Joe in USA, even I know if one wants to study ancient Iranian history the place to go is University of Chicago. Harvard is the Center of distorting Iranian history in America. It is highly influenced by IR,....if you recall they even invited AN as a speaker and had to canel it when Massach. Governor opposed it. Why would the Prince put himself in a position of having to take courses with departments and professors highly supportive of IR and Arabs? Fatemeh Haghighatjoo teaching in Harvard is an ex IR MP - an IR reformist. I don't think no matter how hard the prince had studied they would not have given him a phd!!! that may have been at least one reason to depress a person - who made a wrong decesion of wanting a degree from Harvard.

well, I guess the book is wrong, U & Tom cruise R right - PRAYER

And, while you are at it, pray even harder that a dear family member does not get afflicted by depression.

Nobody has benefitted from antidepressants

There is no proof of that. Only prescribing psychiatrists say so. We are supposed to just take their word for it. They have NO scientific way to measure mental health at all. They CONSTANTLY admit that they have no solution, no understanding and no proof. But they then come back and claim that they are the authority!

The advertisements for new "wonder drugs" even say it outright things like "at least 2/3rd of those who take anti-depressants are still experiencing the symptoms of the [illness]." You cannot find anybody YOURSELF who has EVER benefitted from ANY psychiatric treatment. It is only advertised as being so in the media! 

Depression is a made-up "disease"

Nobody has belittled a person who feels sad a lot, except psychiatrists. Because they say that person is ill and therefore less than others. Psychiatrists are the ones who belittle unhappy people and claim that such people are flawed and need to be fixed. They label people based on non-scientific mumbo jumbo.

Nobody has denied that some people are more sad but it is a LIE that such people are diseased. There is NO scientific proof anywhere to back it up. The WHOLE of DSM is a book of BS! Not One of those "diseases" have been scientifically proven to exist! They have ALL been VOTED in by psych-pharma cartel in order to make money. These boys and girls have had these theories about biological reasons for unusual behavior but they have NEVER proven it anywhere! Their solutions of brain-cutting (lobottomy), electric shock torture, poisonous, mind-damaging drugs pills are false "solutions" and "treatments" that has driven the whole society into darkness of crime and insanity. Psychiatry today is what Spanish Inquisition priest was during the Dark Ages. They employ the same tactics and "treatments." Their marketing campaigns simply hides the fact.

Btw, number of anti depressants per person/per year

France holds the unfortunate European record.

It's like a chewing gum, nowadays. 

MM

I read your comment. 

But I will not change my mind when it comes to anti depressants. If anything, they drive people to suicide. My neighbour and a good friend took her life while under anti depressants, jumped off a bridge.

At one stage I was having a hard time myself. My GP offered me anti-depressants. I said NO. Never, ever.

Rea - tell that to millions who benefit from antidepressants

Having thoughts of suicide is one of the manifestations of depression with or without antidepressants, e.g., see the last diagnostic criteria for depression in my last comment.  Although some antidepressants make people more prone to suicide, you can not generalize and marginalize the millions who benefit from the drugs.  The people committing suicide are part of 30% who do not respond to antidepressants, and now there is hardly any more research to find out why, thanks to the demise of the industry.

MM

Anti depressors are killing people, even those who have never participated in any war.

It is very irresponsible of commentors to belittle depression

It is very irresponsible of commentors to belittle depression and turn the estimated 20% of the population who are depressed away from badly needed treatment.  Depression is not just a matter of being sad (see below for the list) and is certainly caused by the malfunction of a combination of adrenergic, GABAergic, glutamatergic, dopaminergic as well as peptidergic pathways in the central nervous system.  The complexity of depression makes it difficult to treat, but fortunately, with the current regiment of drugs, ca. 70% respond positively to treatment.

Meanwhile, please encourage depressed patients to get proper treatment as well as see family/professional support groups instead of labeling them as whatever..... For example, a large percentage of the returning war veterans have PTSD (a form of depression) with no good treatment, and a loving family and psych treatment helps.

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"Diagnostic criteria for depression (Nature Reviews:Neuroscience, 2006, vol 7, 137-151):"

• Depressed or irritable mood

• Decreased interest in pleasurable activities and ability to experience pleasure

• Significant weight gain or loss (>5% change in a month)

• Insomnia or hypersomnia

• Psychomotor agitation or retardation

• Fatigue or loss of energy

• Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt

• Diminished ability to think or concentrate

• Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide

"Depression (officially termed major depression) is diagnosed according to criteria in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 2000)), which defines a ‘major depressive episode’ as being characterized by at least five of the symptoms listed above."

Mehdi, anti depressors are real killers

But no need repeating over and again.

Suicide is a VERY common side effect of psych drugs - no politic

In fact any psychiatric "treatment" directly raises the potential for suicide. This is a proven fact that psychiatrists and big pharma, with their infinitely wealthy lobby have been able to hide or have ignored by authorities. Most people on psych drugs commit suicide or become violent -school shootings are mostly done by kids on anti-depressants. In all cases the psychiatrist is right there to blame it on "lack of psychiatric care." But in reality it is the psychiatric "care" that increases the incidence of suicide many times over! I bet you any money Alireza was on some sort of psychiatric "treatment/medication."

Please note that "Depression" is a made up "disease." Scientifically speaking, being sad or extra sad for long periods of time has NEVER been proven to be a disease. It is a made up disease that makes billions of dollars for the big pharma, with absolutely noscientific basis whatsoever.

Rich and influential people are very attractive targets for the greed of the psychiatrists as they are essentially nothing more than mere parasites with no real solution for human problems. So they kill with their poisonous pills, brain-cutting "surgery", electric shock torture and such inhuman death methods.

Good Point in

your blog worth thinking about.  Thanks for sharing. 

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I was wondering if he left a suicide note?.......of course, I have not heard anything like that!

Thank you for sharing!

hass

With all your exclamation marks, there must be something terrrrrribly wrong with you.

Ashes to ashes

Let him rest in peace.

Is it possible

that he was killed by islamic goons from a close range? after all these roaches have peneterated every western country.just a posibility....

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a totally laughable and ridiculous attempt to exploit this guy's suicide for your own political agenda.