A little something for Nate.
From the Today Show, an interview with Matt Lauer:
LAUER: TOM CRUISE CREATED A FIRESTORM WHEN HE CRITICIZED BROOKE SHIELDS FOR REVEALING THAT SHE WENT INTO THERAPY AND TOOK ANTIDEPRESSANTS TO DEAL WITH HER POST PARTUM DEPRESSION. AS A SCIENTOLGIST, HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN PSYCHIATRIC MEDICINE. I ASKED HIM ABOUT HIS COMMENTS.
CRUISE: i've never agreed with psychiatry, ever. Before I was a Scientologist I never agreed with psychiatry. and when i started studying the history of psychiatry, i understood more and more why i didn't believe in psychology.
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TOM CRUISE: Matt, you have to understand this. Here we are today where I talk out against drugs and psychiatric abuses of electric shocking people (PH), okay, against their will, of drugging children with them not knowing the effects of these drugs. Do you know what Aderol (PH) is? Do you know Ritalin? Do you know now that Ritalin is a street drug? Do you understand that?
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TOM CRUISE: all it does is mask the problem, Matt. And if you understand the history of it, it masks the problem. That's what it does. That's all it does. You're not getting to the reason why. There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.
Read the full transcript at the Drudge Report.
Now, me, I'm pretty sure that Tom Cruise doesn't understand the history of shit, much less anything about psychiatry. In fact, I'm pretty sure that Tom Cruise sucks, and his "religion," Scientology, sucks. In fact, I'm pretty sure that when you're a member of a cult founded by a failed Sci-Fi writer, the last thing you need to be doing is talking about anything more complex than doughnuts.
The current issue of Blender has a short interview with Lisa Marie Presley, also a batshit crazy Scientologist, in which she attacks psychiatry. To her, I say this: ho, you be lucky yo' father was Elvis. Otherwise, you'd be a stripper with a coke-habit.
Friday, June 24, 2005
Tom Cruise - Psychiatry Debunker
1 comment:
The sad thing about this is, people might actually take what this arrogant asshead says about the mental health profession as gospel, and yet won't care what 20 professionals have to say on the matter.
The use of "electric shock" therapy is not a prolific treatment, and when it is relied on, I can promise you that it's done against people's will because they have no control over their ability to make rational judgments for themselves.
He studied the history of psychiatry and yet, he understood that he didn't believe in psychology? The fundatmental theories are the same, but these really are two separate practices. He probably doesn't believe in psychology, because he's too busy believing in aliens and Easter bunnies. And if he studied the history of psycho-whatever, then he surely came across the words "bipolar," "anxiety" and "depression" which are scientifically proven to be linked to imbalances of dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine. It's not the be-all, end-all to explaining mental illness, but anyone who studies psychology, as Cruise has claimed he has, could tell you that.
Now, sheepishly do I admit that I agree with him on the issue of child psychiatric practices. The proliferation of psychiatric intervention in child and adolescent lifestyles, I believe, interferes with normal development.
See, there's one thing I don't like about this profession I'm in. People still view it, after decades, as a bunch of hocus-pocus. We don't read minds, we don't pull rabbits out of hats, we don't seek counseling before we become counselors ourselves, and we're not "just as crazy" as the people we work with.
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