Meghan, you should read up on your 'Facts' more...“Tom Cruise’s remarks on NBC’s Today Show represent a growing public awareness about the national crisis of children and adults being prescribed mind-altering drugs,” it said, going on to back up specific points made by Cruise: “There’s no biological imbalance,” it quotes a medical expert as saying. “When people come to me and they say, ‘I have a biochemical imbalance,’ I say, ‘Show me your lab tests.’ There are no lab tests. So what’s the biochemical imbalance?” Do not confuse MEDICAL problems such as Altzheimers, Parkinsons, etc with MENTAL issues, the differences are VAST. Here's the difference. You CAN show me a lab report that someone has Altzheimers (medical) but you can't show me a lab report showing me that someone has Schizophrenia (mental), that's the point Tom Cruise was making. Anyone with a shred of common sense knows that it is patently ridiculous to believe that a "disease' of our thoughts and our emotions (Complete Intangibles) could be measured by our blood (Tangible), what a crock. You people will believe anything that is dished out to you!
Tom - What the hell is your major malfunction? Suddenly, your an "in-your-face , overly militant 'Hubby'" that thinks he knows everything there is to know. NEWS FLASH - YOU DON'T!
Please, just SHUT THE F UP!
I propose a class action lawsuit, against mr know-it-all cruise, signed by every single person in the universe, who has ever had any kind of dibilatating disease that comes under the listing of psychiatic care, doctors, nurses, therapists, socialworkers and anyone else (family and friends) who is personally involved with, or related to mental health.
let's stack up the signatures against the vitamen and excercise theory, and see who wins!
Oprah
I think it is safe to say that Mr. Cruise has never been a woman and has never suffered from PPD and that he is the last person in the world that I would think of as being an expert in anything, other than acting totally irrational, not to mention a bit...strange? While I have never suffered from PPD I have suffered with depression for over four years. While I would like to say that I was able to handle this all on my own, without any medication, I can't. I can say that if it were not for medication and the help of a caring doctor, I would not be here today. I think Mr. Cruise should try to concentrate on his own personal life, and not someone elses. Maybe (and this is a very big maybe) if he does indeed marry his latest "great love" he will actually be able to make the marriage last for more than a few years.
Tom, oh Tom. I almost dislike you enough to wish the worst panic attack on you. I wonder how you would feel about medication then? Poor Katie, or any other person in your life. God forbid they should suffer depression or panic attacks and need medication.
Tom Cruise owes the public an apology as well as to Brooke Shields AND Matt Lauer. Never before has a "celebrity" taken such liberties with his public image and status. His "career" deserves to take a nose-dive if he doesn't show more compassion and donate money to a mental health foundation and/or clinics. His comments are unfounded and downright insulting to any person working in the Social Services field, Mental Health field, any nurse working around the elderly and physically and mentally disabled, and especially FAMILIES with loved ones suffering from any such illness. Some medications he mentioned are recalled and are abused, but the Journals of Medicine that reach the physicians' offices very frequently keep up with latest news, so Tom Cruise is negligent in thinking that physicians are "purposefully " continuing to keep children on medications as if it were a conspiracy with the pharmaceutical companies. That is illegal. Plus, insurance companies are making it harder and harder to purchase prescription meds, what insurance will and will not cover in a policy, so this gives more proof to the fact that a physician must really warrant the need for a child to be on a strong drug such as Ritalin or Adderall. Tom Cruise should try talking to a medical student or physician in practice. Scientology claims are downward flaky with their opinion against psychiatry and the mental well-being of so many individuals in our society. He should be ashamed of himself. Plus, I believe it is a factual statement that physicians seeing patients will review ON EVERY OFFICE VISIT medications their patients are taking and why, for how long, the dosage needed or not needed, and if there is a future need for the medication. Serotonin and dopamine are chemicals in the brain (schizophrenia, bipolar, Alzheimer's, etc), so this is a CHEMICAL IMBALANCE and a disease of
Tom, you should stick to reading from script and chorographing your relationships with the media. And, shut the hell up when it comes to things that your pea sized brain can't process. Retreat somewhere with your cult of self serving gods and practice some voodoo medicine to chase away your evil spirits!
Tom,Tom,Tom, You don't know scientology like the non celebs in scientology do. Your glib. I know the real scientology, you don't. or do you?
If you do, then your a fool.
So, any medicine that deals with any other organ is "science," but if it deals with the brain, unless it involves "auditing" and "engrams," is automatically a "pseudo-scien ce," and its practicioners are "Nazi-like." Uh huh. Ritalin is a street drug? Well, so are pain killers and many other common prescription drugs. That automatically means it's not useful?? And people should take advice about the effectiveness of drugs used to treat hyperactivity from a guy jumping up and down on a sofa? Uh, Tom? Just. Shut. Up.
Awwww, poor Tom. All the women his own age know what a cocksucker he is, so he has to date impressionable young girls who had prepubescent crushes on him. And when a reporter won't fawn over him like the teenage chicks used to, he gets pissy and pedantic. So you're short and dumb, Tom - get over it!
Hugely irresponsible behavior, Mr. Cruise. Are you willing to take responsibility for those who throw away their meds, buy a multi-vitamin and then kill themselves & others? You are neither licensed nor qualified to practice medicine. Unfortunately, many of your fans will not realize this until it is too late.
It seems you are having a major mid-life crisis and I urge you to seek some kind of help for it.
This has got to be one of the most important petitions ever created.
Tom, when you were interviwed by Matt Lauer, you sounded like an idiot who lost his lithium on the flight to NY to appear on the Today show. It is imperative to your future career that you really stop talking. Use some of those behavioral techniques that I'm sure you've read about to control your ADHD and please, shut the hell up.
As a scientist myself, i know what is science and what is not. While psychiatry follows the scientific method for their research, Cruise claims are only based on prejudices and on superstitions, without following any method at all. Period.
OK, Tom.... you're either on drugs, or need to be! Your acting and looking like a raving maniac! Brook, I can't imagine anyone's opinion that should matter less to you than our good friend Tom's.
As a recipient of Ritalin who saw dramatic improvement, I'd like to suggest that Tom STFU and quick acting like having an opinion makes him a medical expert.
Shut up Tom! I think EVERYONE is sick of you and your ditzy girlfriend--enough already! You probably have ruined your acreer along with hers so if you want the big bucks to stop rolling in, keeping talking nonsense about things you don't know about personally or things that are none of your business!!
How dare you speak for a woman that had Postpartum depression! It is a serious illness and one that can't be treated by the Scientology's Hot Baths & vitamin detox rituals--give us a break!
p.s. I WILL NOT see War Of The Worlds due to the fact that you are just too annoying and have left a very sour taste in my mouth.
Hey, someone should start a petition "Boycott War Of The Worlds until Tom appologizes to Brooke Shields for being a total arse!"
Tom has No business acting like he has some sort of Medical Degree and can dole out information as if it were gospel. ( I guess it is based on aliens and the thory that you can make money by starting your own religion) these are principles on which his cult he claims affliation with is based. Shut up Tom Make a Public apology to Brooke and ALL Americans who have been treated and reaped the Benefit of treatment for Depression. Many of us will be Boycotting anything with which you are affiliated .You may soon find that No one in Hollywood will want to deal with you or your Stupidity . Katie, Run as far as fast as you can to get away from this Freak!
Just another empty zealot. Twenty years of close-ups and magazine covers has left him completely abandoned of sanity, or at least humility. I wish he would just fucking go away.
Maybe Tom is right! Maybe there really isn't any use for psychiatric drugs! Maybe I will go off my meds, and then when I shoot the son-of-a-bitch, I will just get off on an insanity plea!
Screw Tom Cruise, he used to be a good guy. Now he's just a publicity whore. Another site has started a site to revoke his citezenship. You guys should sign that petition too.
Tom, and all the other morons out there who say there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance--WHERE IS YOUR MEDICAL DEGREE?!? Unless you are a doctor, or have suffered from such a thing, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about! SO SHUT UP!
dont start telling women how to handle a thing that you would NEVER go through. and don't go pushing a cult as the way to live. go find a hole and bury yourself.
Oh my god you don't even deserve the attation you are getting, you washed up piece of crap. Ever since you made Magnolia you've sucked. Go away!
Please shut up! and while you're at it, leave that poor little girl alone - no, not Katie, Dakota Fanning, who I can only assume you are grooming to take Katie's place once her contract is up.
I have never taken drugs for depression, and don't know that I would, but to critize people who do in such a public manor and attack them without knowing the facts is immature and arrogent. Get a life Tom, and shut the hell up.
Not only did you act like an ass on my show, you managed to prove to the entire world what an ignorant low life you really are!
You used and abused our friendship, as well as stomped on my furniture for very the last time!
STAY OFF MY COUCH!
As for Katy, GIVE BACK THE RING AND RUN FOR YOUR LIFE from this close minded, judgemental idiot!
God help you if you ever put a toe out of line, and fall off the pedestal he has placed you on!
Call me, we can do lunch, and I will give you the name of a good psychiatrist! :)
Love, Oprah
Dear Tom,
I was just wondering when I was going to get my money for selling you my daughter. And by the way, you can't keep this one for 10 years like you did Nicole, the jig's up after 5.
Tom is right up there with Witchhunters, KKK, & Hitler. Nothing like promoting a little hate amongest your fellow humans. What was it you said on Oprah, something about "We all belong to one race, the human race"?
Apparently there are two 'races': 1) the people who tolerate each other's differences, have compassion for other's imperfections, and understand that no one is perfect.
and
2)the Idiot Race, of which Tom is President of!
Tom Cruise is an effing moron. Just another celebrity thinking he has the right to use his spotlight to jam his twisted vision on others. He needs to be beaten about the head and chest. He's also a midget. WOTWFAN, suck it.
Hey Tom, if I knew you were going to take everything I made up so seriously, I would have made it more believable. Maybe you should give it a rest little buddy, take some time off to find yourself and shut the fuck up.
L. Ron
Tom Cruise is a saint. IF you need pills to make you feel right, then you caused the problem in your life by getting to that level. You bunch of low life idiots.
I love to laugh at all the assholes who are "defending" tom, and yet at the same time, by writing anything, they are signing an anti-tom petition. Real smart guys.
I cannot believe the nerve of this man! Like so many of the others have said, when he is able to go through 9 months of pregnancy (and work full time while he's pregnant) then give birth, then have to find child care (no high priced live in nannies allowed!) and return to work, all on viamins? Good luck! Not to mention the full time responsibility of being a parent. yes I know he has two children, but is he a full time parent? How can he be when he is jetsetting around the world! I'm lucky to have a vacation every 5 years! yet, here he is, flying all over the world; and are his children with him? I think not! Trust me, this is not "sour grapes" I wouldn't trade places with him if my life depended on it! Brooke, thank you for educating the public on this wildly unterestimated condition, and speaking out with so much courage. You are my hero! And remember, you are the Princton grad, he's the high school drop out. Consider the source, and ignore it (him).
I am appauled at what Tom Cruise has said. I suffer from clinical depression and I was diagnosed over 10 years ago and still need the help of medication. My mother started seeing symptoms when I was only 3 years old. To say depression is not an illness and vitamins and exercise can cure it, is appaulling. I think Tom Cruise is looking at his own life history and not that of statistical evidence of all the people medication has helped. Does he not believe in any medication at all. Because if he says that only people with mental illness (which is a chemical imbalance) should not use medication, but it is okay for someone with diabetes than that is even more obserd. They are both medical conditions. I would like to see him or maybe Katie develope depression and still tell us it can be cured with vitamins and exercise. He is just playing into the cultural stigma that is associated with depression only because it happens to be a medical condition affecting the brain, but regardless it is a medical condition. So shut up Tom Cruise before people actually believe you, and our suicide rate is doubled or tripled because people did not seek the help they needed because of what you think you know about depression.
I wish to high heaven that I had been offered therapeutic medicines/anti-depressant s after the birth of my son in 1981. Though he is a delightful and wonderful adult now, I feel sad and sorry that when he was an infant, I was too blue to truly enjoy those 'baby days." By the way, my depression/anxiety started PRE-partum -- in the fifth month of pregnancy. How DARE Tom Cruise tell women they are wrong to seek help for this crippling disease. He's a loser and I vow never to see another of his movies. What a jerk.
I ashamedly have defended Tom Cruise for years. He was my favorite actor and I deeply respected him as an individual. No more. And not strictly due to his remarks about Brooke Shields. Its just the overall "big mouth", pompous & arrogant personality I've seen displayed over & over during the past few weeks. Apparently, this is the REAL Tom Cruise that he's so meticulously hidden from us until now. I will sadly never see him in the same light again. You need to shut up, Tom - before your ratings fall so low that you'll lose the lavish lifestyle you've grown accustomed to, due to us - your viewers - whom you've sorely disappointed.:-(
Each topic is related to another equally. Additionally, god is dead and psychiatrists have a joint cult with the freemasons and christianity. Prozac is their soma.
Hey shrinks, how do you sleep at night knowing that you're killing people? Are you dead too? I'll bet you all voted for Bush and are born-again christians. those people seem to be the fucking freaks who like prozac the most, since they're all depressed and mixed up from a history of repression. LIBERATE THEM!
Let's look at some facts about the Southern and Midwestern United States (I hope I don't vomit all over my keyboard). Mostly all 'red' states, highest rate of military recruitment, highest rate of circumcision, highest earning gap between men and women, most redneck racists live here, KKK, fattest people in the world, ugliest, most pimples, more cows eaten here than anywhere else in the world, most cow milk drank, most repressed sexually in the entire country, least breast feeding because people fear the breast, lowest intelligence (did you know that teachers who earned their degrees in the south can't teach in other states?!?! That's because they're all fucking IDIOTS!!!), most christians, and let's see, last of all to add to the list of southern and midwestern qualitiiiiiieeeeesssss... ....................HIGHE ST CONSUMPTION OF "anti-depress ant" drugs, because they're all pitiful sheep with fucked up, miserable lives who think getting a lobotomy in pill-form is the answer. Sick. Why couldn't the south have airplanes crash into it instead of the world trade center? that would have been cool.
Hi, my name is Yvonne. I'm from southern California and have three kids. I'm really fat and loud and depressed. I take drugs to prevent myself from killing myself, when what I should be doing is stop being such a fucking retard Christian who judges people and is a hypocrite, and doesn't like smart people. I'm a total fuck-up in life.
Sometimes God's forgetful, like forgetting to take the stupid potion out of humanity's collective psyche. As such, I forgot to tell you the books to read. The first is called '1984', and the second is called 'Brave New World'. Quickly now-- they're better than the bible! Read them or repent!
This is God talking. I am objective. There is such a thing as objective truth. There is such a thing as right and wrong. To believe that there isn't is dangerous. I don't want my children to take drugs (unless it's recreational marijuana, LSD or shrooms). I once spoke through a man named George Orwell, and another through a man named Aldous Huxley. I want everyone to read these books and realize that if you don't awaken from your coma of ignorance, the fictional societies of these stories will become a reality. Adieu..... Oh, and P.S., stop circumcising your infant sons. I put those skins there for a reason, and I don't want them to be mutilated anymore. Sex without a foreskin is like living in black-and-white, never to see color. Leave the wee-wees free.
Tom Cruise, You are not an attractive man, you're short, have squinty eyes and a nose that screams for surgery. What comes out of your mouth is just as ugly as the rest of you.
I'll never pay to see anything you're in.
I agree with Ruth's message in #631. Step away from the closet.....
I think that Tom Cruise is a complete ass. Last time that I checked, just because someone is famous it doesn't translate into being a doctor. I'm completely offended by his comments directed towards Brooke Shields & I'm offended at his remarks towards psychiatry in general. It worked for me & I'm damn glad that I sought help for my depression. If it wasn't for my awesome therapist, I would still be in a place that I never want to go to again. No amount of vitamins could ever bring me out of it. Exercise? Please, I could barely drag my ass out of bed to go to work let alone workout.
Tom Cruise should stick to talking to the things that he knows about, like a "psudo religion" that is more cult-like then anything else. You want to drink that Kool-Aid, Tom Cruise, you go right ahead and do that. But quit flooding the airwaves with your ignorant & misinformed talking points because, when challenged but credible journalists, your position won't come close to being legitimate.
TOM CRUISE! SHUT UP! Everyone knows you are gay, it's insluting to your gay brethren to keep denying it by flaunting a 100% FAKE RELATIONSHIP. The only thing REAL about it is that you two are REALLY concerned about your BOX OFFICE PROCEEDS. GAH! Also, Scientology sucks. Sorry, but that's MY OPINION. Third, Katie Holmes is not as amazing an wonderful as you think. She's actually a man - oh! wait! THAT'S why you are in love with her... ok.
Tom, maybe you should run for governor next. You seem to have all the makings of an ignorant fool that likes to hear himself talk. Or you can just shut up and save some dignity. Your choice.
He's a gorgeous, gorgeous man, but Tom Cruise is a fucking nimrod. I can't believe the stuff he said on "Today" in regard to brain chemistry imbalances like postpartum depression. Just to summarize, for those that missed it:
Tom Cruise stated:
-Brooke Shields was not in fact afflicted with postpartum depression, as she recounted in her recent book. In fact, there is no such thing as brain chemistry imbalances at all. He actually said, and I'm not kidding here folks, "When you talk about postpartum, you can take people today, women, and what you do is you use vitamins. There is a hormonal thing that is going on, scientifically, you can prove that. But when you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that. You can use vitamins to help a woman through those things." When Matt Lauer of "Today" pushed Tom on these little nuggets, Tom (who apparently has a doctorate somewhere we all haven't heard about) said, "You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do." (I just have to comment on this. How does he know what Matt Lauer does and does not know? I mean seriously, how pompous can you be?)
-Tom Cruise doesn't believe that there's any such thing as ADD or ADHD. When Matt Lauer stated that he's seen people helped by Ritalin, Cruise said, "Matt, Matt, you don't even - you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt, OK. That's what I've done."
As someone who suffered, and I mean S-U-F-F-E-R-E-D from postpartum depression, I can't help but want to kick this man in the balls for being such a
Unitl you have lived with the devastating consequences of any form of depression you are not allowed to condemn a person for getting help. I am a mental health social work student and mental illness runs in families. A person who is has family history of depression does not have always have a chance to avoid it. Drugs and therapy help a person suffering from mental illness regain their life. No amount of vitamins or exercise is going to change that. You are lucky to have never experienced this disease so do not knock others who are fighting daily to win their battle with mental illness. It is not a personal weakness and the people who fight it everyday are much stronger and braver than anyone you can imagine. There is a lot of scientific research about the chemical imbalances of depression. Read a book and educate yourself. As a role model to many people you should think before you act. You are an actor and not a doctor or a mental health professional. Leave mental health diagnosis and therapy to professionals and go back to smiling on the red carpet. It seems that is the only thing that you can do right.
I used to believe in the Cruise myth. They shouldn't have let him speak. Poor brain-washed man. Maybe this is a 'phase' in his 'journey'? Do they (the Science guys) have a class where they teach you to think for yourself again?
SOOOO disappointed in Tom Cruise! He's trashing someone for relating her experience with psyhosis and what helped her come out of it. He's equating the use of anti-depressants for severe post-partum depression with illegal drug abuse. He's diminishing the devastation of post-partum depression, clearly without understanding it. And he's using his celebrity to voice an opinion on which he has no supporting facts or personal experience. If he wants to talk about ADD or ADHD and why he believes Ritalin or other drug therapy is dangerous, fine; that is a subject of which he supposedly has personal experience. But don't bash someone else for sharing the same kind of story just because you disagree with it!
Tom, have you seen your own newsclips? You're acting like the village idiot man! Snap out of it! I bet Nicole is thinking she's a lucky girl right about now to be rid of Dr. Tom Cruise!
Tom, rather than attacking Brooke and other women who have suffered postpartum depression, you should really focus your attention on why you repeat your same marital mistakes again and again.
I feel that Tom Cruise OWES Brook Shields an apology for his remarks. I feel that he deserves the remark she made towards Mr. Cruise regarding his relationship with Miss Holmes "come see me in Chicago, there will be tickets waiting, one adult and one child." Good for you Brooke!!!!!
