RE: Digest Number 1627

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I have to disagree with a lot of what Tom Cruise said. I have a BA in

Psychology and feel like, though Mr. Cruise is an intelligent man, he is not

a doctor nor a specialist and while making HIS opinions known, does not

certify that it is the correct treatment for everyone. While I agree that

some people are over medicated and could benefit from some of his

suggestions, there are more serious cases that need a bit more help.

 

I think what really disturbed me was that he was not letting Matt Lauer even

discuss or express HIS opinions on it. I dislike anyone who thinks their

way is the only way. He wouldn't even let Matt get anything out without

interrupting him. That's like a person of a certain religion believing that

their religion is the ONLY religion. That is just wrong!

 

I'm afraid that Tom Cruise has lost a lot of my respect. He is an actor,

not a medical professional and each person should seek their own counsel

when dealing with such things. And as a side note, I am sooo sick of him

pushing Katie Holmes in our faces. This will be, after all, his 3rd

marriage. Will vitamins help him to make it work?

 

Shannon

 

 

 

 

Saturday, July 02, 2005 11:00 AM

 

Digest Number 1627

 

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1. Tom Cruise takes on psychiatry, and drugs.

Rick Stevens <ecology1st2004

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Rick Stevens <ecology1st2004

Tom Cruise takes on psychiatry, and drugs.

 

[i'm glad to see Toms got some guts. Maybe his

comments will wake some people up and turn them away

from pharmaceuticals. Rick.]

 

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Shields vs. Cruise: Round 2 By Joal Ryan

Fri Jul 1, 3:50 PM ET

 

 

 

With War of the Worlds now in theaters, Tom Cruise

presumably is done jumping on talk-show couches. But

Brooke Shields is not done jumping on the

hyperkinetic hyper critic.

 

 

 

" I was hoping it wouldn't come to this, " Shields

writes in an op-ed piece published in Friday's New

York Times, " but... "

 

 

The " but " was Cruise's June 24 appearance on NBC's

Today, in which the devout Scientologist lectured host

Matt Lauer on the " dangerous " drugs prescribed to

treat postpartum depression and again held up Shields

as a cautionary tale.

 

 

In the Times, Shields, who suffered postpartum

depression following the 2003 birth of her daughter,

Rowan, painted Cruise as out of his depth.

 

 

" I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr.

Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression, "

Shields writes.

 

 

In the column, as in her recently published memoir,

Down Came the Rain, Shields says that the

antidepressant Paxil and therapy saved her and her

family.

 

 

" To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal

with my depression, and that I instead should have

taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of

understanding about postpartum depression and

childbirth in general, " Shields writes.

 

 

Vitamins and exercise are two of the alternative

treatments Cruise prescribed during his off-the-rails

publicity tour for War of the Worlds, which opened to

relatively strong business Wednesday. Interviews

ostensibly booked to promote the Steven

Spielberg-helmed sci-fi epic often took long detours

into Cruise's passion for fiancée Katie Holmes and

Scientology, the L. Ron Hubbard-founded religion which

eschews psychiatry and its associated pharmaceuticals.

 

 

 

" Am I making people aware of it by discussing it

openly and saying what a fraud psychiatry is? " Cruise

asked on Access Hollywood in May. " You bet I am. I

feel responsibility. Because I care, man. I care. I

care about you. I care about your children. I care

about these people here in this room, every one of

you. "

 

 

In the same interview, Cruise expressed acute concern

for Shields, his long ago Endless Love costar, who

recently had concluded her own publicity tour for Down

Came the Rain. Cruise suggested Shields wasn't as

happy as she let on, and that her career was suffering

for her Paxil prescription.

 

 

Cruise's remarks led to Shields' first retort in early

June-- " Tom Cruise's comments are irresponsible and

dangerous, " she said. Undeterred, Cruise picked

up--and at--the Shields thread on Today.

 

 

" The thing that I'm saying about Brooke is that

there's misinformation, okay, " Cruise told Lauer. " And

she doesn't understand the history of psychiatry. She

doesn't understand in the same way that you don't

understand it, Matt. "

 

 

At the conclusion of her Times article, Shields

pointedly notes that, no, she has not detailed the

history of psychiatry-- " but it is my history, personal

and real. "

 

 

Shields, currently starring on the London stage in a

production of Chicago, has an ally in the American

Psychiatric Association. Where Shields slammed Cruise

for his " ridiculous rant, " the group this week slammed

the actor for his " irresponsible " comments.

 

 

Cruise, meanwhile, has an ally in Kelly Preston.

The actress, married to Hollywood's other A-list

Scientologist, John Travolta, told AP Radio on

Wednesday that Shields has responsibility issues, as

well.

 

 

" If you're going to be advocating drugs, which

[shields] does in her book, you need to be responsible

for also telling the people of the potential risks, "

Preston said.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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