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Loopywafflehead (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} loopywafflehead) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2005-06-27 00:13:00 |
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Tom Cruise, crazy person.
Found this via my friends list. Tom Cruise was interviewed by someone called Matt Lauer. Matt Lauer asks him about his recent comments regarding psychiatric medicine and Brooke Shields. Cruise kinda loses it. The transcript of the interview can be found here. It's a little long so some snippets are under the cut.
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.
(Psychology and psychiatry are two different things, dumbfuck.)
MATT LAUER: But-- but Tom, if she [Brooke Shields] said that this particular thing helped her feel better, whether it was the antidepressant or going to a counselor or psychiatrist, isn't that enough?
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, okay, against their will, of drugging children with them not knowing the effects of these drugs. Do you know what Aderol is? Do you know Ritalin? Do you know now that Ritalin is a street drug? Do you understand that?
MATT LAUER: The difference is-- (OVERTALK)
TOM CRUISE: No, no, Matt.
MATT LAUER: This wasn't against her will, though.
TOM CRUISE: Matt, I'm-- Matt, I'm asking you a question.
MATT LAUER: I understand there's abuse of all of these things.
TOM CRUISE: No, you see. Here's the problem. You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do.
(There's a jurisimprudence law for this, isn't there? Avoiding discussion of the actual issue (and claiming that you're automatically right) by stating that your opponent has no understanding of the subject matter?)
MATT LAUER: Aren't there examples, and might not Brooke Shields be an example, of someone who benefited from one of those drugs?
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. (OVERTALK)
(Bolding mine.) No such thing?! *froth rage snarl*
He then goes on to say:
TOM CRUISE: But what happens, the antidepressant, all it does is mask the problem. There's ways of vitamins and through exercise and various things. I'm not saying that that isn't real. That's not what I'm saying. That's an alteration of what-- what I'm saying. I'm saying that drugs aren't the answer, these drugs are very dangerous. They're mind-altering, anti-psychotic drugs. And there are ways of doing it without that so that we don't end up in a brave new world.
The thing that I'm saying about Brooke is that there's misinformation, okay. And she doesn't understand the history of psychiatry. She-- she doesn't understand in the same way that you don't understand it, Matt.
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And it goes on like this. According to Tom Cruise, my friend who depends on medication to control her schizophrenia doesn't really have a problem because there's no such thing as a chemical imbalance. She just needs needs to take vitamin pills and hop on the treadmill and she'll be right as rain. Idiot. (Tom Cruise, not my friend.)
The US National Mental Health Association is understandably not very happy about his claims and respond to the interview here.
ETA: Icon change - Smutalicious on lj recently created this icon in response to Cruise's comments.
Found this via my friends list. Tom Cruise was interviewed by someone called Matt Lauer. Matt Lauer asks him about his recent comments regarding psychiatric medicine and Brooke Shields. Cruise kinda loses it. The transcript of the interview can be found here. It's a little long so some snippets are under the cut.
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.
(Psychology and psychiatry are two different things, dumbfuck.)
MATT LAUER: But-- but Tom, if she [Brooke Shields] said that this particular thing helped her feel better, whether it was the antidepressant or going to a counselor or psychiatrist, isn't that enough?
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, okay, against their will, of drugging children with them not knowing the effects of these drugs. Do you know what Aderol is? Do you know Ritalin? Do you know now that Ritalin is a street drug? Do you understand that?
MATT LAUER: The difference is-- (OVERTALK)
TOM CRUISE: No, no, Matt.
MATT LAUER: This wasn't against her will, though.
TOM CRUISE: Matt, I'm-- Matt, I'm asking you a question.
MATT LAUER: I understand there's abuse of all of these things.
TOM CRUISE: No, you see. Here's the problem. You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do.
(There's a jurisimprudence law for this, isn't there? Avoiding discussion of the actual issue (and claiming that you're automatically right) by stating that your opponent has no understanding of the subject matter?)
MATT LAUER: Aren't there examples, and might not Brooke Shields be an example, of someone who benefited from one of those drugs?
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. (OVERTALK)
(Bolding mine.) No such thing?! *froth rage snarl*
He then goes on to say:
TOM CRUISE: But what happens, the antidepressant, all it does is mask the problem. There's ways of vitamins and through exercise and various things. I'm not saying that that isn't real. That's not what I'm saying. That's an alteration of what-- what I'm saying. I'm saying that drugs aren't the answer, these drugs are very dangerous. They're mind-altering, anti-psychotic drugs. And there are ways of doing it without that so that we don't end up in a brave new world.
The thing that I'm saying about Brooke is that there's misinformation, okay. And she doesn't understand the history of psychiatry. She-- she doesn't understand in the same way that you don't understand it, Matt.
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And it goes on like this. According to Tom Cruise, my friend who depends on medication to control her schizophrenia doesn't really have a problem because there's no such thing as a chemical imbalance. She just needs needs to take vitamin pills and hop on the treadmill and she'll be right as rain. Idiot. (Tom Cruise, not my friend.)
The US National Mental Health Association is understandably not very happy about his claims and respond to the interview here.
ETA: Icon change - Smutalicious on lj recently created this icon in response to Cruise's comments.
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