Overview

• Siddharth’s mental health struggles began with a depression diagnosis at Carnegie Mellon before a violent schizophrenia-related breakdown in Montreal revealed the full condition.
• Bedi intervened by flying in from California and placing his son under UCLA doctors’ care, enlisting crisis professionals when Siddharth expressed suicidal thoughts.
• The actor recalls that early antipsychotic drugs left Siddharth feeling “drugged and zoned out,” making consistent medication adherence nearly impossible.
• Despite therapeutic efforts, Siddharth died by suicide a week after speaking of ending his life, leaving Bedi to describe the loss as like having an “arm torn off your body.”
• Bedi notes that modern schizophrenia treatments carry far fewer debilitating side effects than those available in 1997, offering new hope for patients today.