Robin Williams and The Choice of Suicide


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Hi all,

I don't know how to explain it, but if you guys/gals have free time I suggest reading the article in the link I posted below.

Thanks,

David C.

http://themattwalshblog.com/2014/08/12/robin-williams-didnt-die-disease-died-choice/

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Good blog... with a great point:

"Happiness and contentment are not found in our talents, our money, our luxuries, or our reputations. If wealthy, brilliant, beloved people tell us anything when they murder themselves, it must be that."

Greg

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Was he on psychiatric drugs? Being on them can make people crazy. Withdrawing from them can make people crazy.

5 thousand stories plus other information

http://www.ssristories.org/

Golly, gee! Guess what? The website that you have a link to is run by "volunteers" from the International Coalition for Drug Awareness, which happens to be an offshoot of the Citizrns' Commission for Human Rights, which is (get ready for the surprise!) one of the myriad of front groups created to disguise the fact that they are run by the Church of Scientology. Whose founder and prophet, L. Ron Hubbard, had a vendetta against any and all persons, groups, and publications from psychiatrists. The cause of Hubbard's wrath against the psychiatric establishment was his rejection by the Menninger Foundation in the early 1950s who he first attempted to court (he wanted them to endorse his book, Dianetics, as the latest advance in psychiatry). When the Meninger Foundation and others in American psychiatry, issued statements denouncing Dianetics as a sham. Hubbard reversed direction and ordered his organizations to attack anything related to psychiatry.

This is not to say that there are not legitimate criticisms of psychiatric drugs, but it has been demonstrated that scientologists, including this group, often creatively embellish stories.to advance their own agenda.

See, for example: http://bipolar.about.com/b/2011/11/14/website-ssri-stories-distorts-the-connection-between-violence-and-ssri-antidepressants.htm

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Jerry (jts), This is not the first time that you have recommended Chuch of Scientology-backed organizations, as useul sources of information, particularly about psychiatric drugs. In fact, you have done this on several occasions, even though it has repeatedly been pointed out to you that information on drugs and many other topics are not presented in an objective manner, but attempt to disguise the fact that they are scientologists.

They might have a little more credibility if they clearly stated who they are associated with and the reasons behind their (actually, Hubbard's) vendetta. But even that would not excuse distortion of the stories that they present.

I do not object to criticism of the medical establishment or of the drugs that they or "BigPharma" promote. But I do object to willful distortion and their use of subterfuge to advance their case.

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But I do object to willful distortion and their use of subterfuge to advance their case.

As all of us should.

Thks.

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