6/26/2005
Tom Cruise-ing for a bruising
I saw a part of the interview with Matt Lauer where Tom Cruise got angry and started ranting about the history of psychiatry, anti-depression medications and Brooke Shields. Apparently Brooke experienced some post partum depression after she had her baby and has admitted to taking drugs to treat her depression. Tom Cruise and Scientology are totally against any kind of psychiatric drugs (or drugs to treat a pscyhiatric ailment).
“Matt. Matt. Matt, you don’t even - you’re glib. You don’t even know what Ritalin is,” he said.
“If you start talking about chemical inbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt, okay? That’s what I’ve done.
“Psychiatry is a pseudo science,” he said.
“She [Brooke Shields] doesn’t understand the history of psychiatry. She doesn’t understand in the same way that you don’t understand it, Matt.
“You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do,” he added.
It’s unfortunate that scientologists think the way they do, but that’s the reason why so many people are dead.
–According to a poll published on Friday by the MSNBC television channel, 69 percent of viewers said Cruise was “just plain wrong” on the role of doctors and the use of drugs to alleviate mental distress.
–About 61 percent of Entertainment Weekly magazine’s readers said they did not like the new ebullient Cruise as much as the quietly controlled superstar of yesteryear.
–And 41 percent said they would not go to see his new film, against 34 per cent who would.
I guess the inhinged Tom Cruise fired his old publicist, and hired his sister, another wacko scientologist. It seems to me the guy is totally wacked out and could use some medication himself to even out his temperment because he’s either making a total fool over himself over his new flame who he’s seen often enough sucking face with, or he’s beating up on someone in public like he did with Matt Lauer over scientology; which you’ve got to admit is really creepy.
Everything I’ve read on it indicates to me that they’re a death cult who kill people because they have some weird fixation about youth and life. There is a long list of victims who died under strange circumstances while being “tended for” by fellow scientologists.
Sorry, I want them FAR away from me. Pinellas County, Florida is pretty far, but it gives me the creeps that all that stuff having to do with Terri Schiavo was going on in Scientology central and look what happened to HER.
2nd part of Matt Lauer’s wacky interview with the weirdo Tom Cruise is coming up on Monday on NBC Today. If it doesn’t conflict with my husband’s favorite program American Chopper, I might get a chance to see it.
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June 26th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
I saw that too. I was thinking “Aren’t you suppose to be promoting your movie, and not your philosophy?”
June 26th, 2005 at 8:50 pm
And I am sure Spielburg is wishing he cast Will Smith or Brad Pitt in that movie.
Cruise has made himself a has-been star at this point. If he doesnt tone it down, it will be hard for him to get work.
June 26th, 2005 at 11:22 pm
Cruise is stupid, as are most of the uneducated Hollywood imbeciles. I think Tom is getting high on extasy or something else.
Someday he’ll be knocked down to his real size and will likely require some therapy and drugs to go along with his utopian dream failures.
June 27th, 2005 at 4:43 am
I didn’t personally see it, but I read that when he was on Oprah he was jumping around on the couch and brought his new love out and professed his love to her. And on Letterman, he just got up and starting shaking hands with members of the audience, leaving Letterman just sitting there. Is this guy totally off his rocker or what?
He’s gone really off the top with Scientology, complete with a Scientology tent for spreading the word on the cult on the set when he’s filming.
June 27th, 2005 at 8:42 am
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June 27th, 2005 at 11:58 am
There is medical healing, and there IS spiritual healing. The thing Tom is wrong about is to attempt to deny the medical field. However many in the Medical field are starting to acknowledge the spiritual benefits.
Remember “What you resist persists”
June 27th, 2005 at 7:17 pm
Yes, L. Ron’s scientology cult is sick.
Yes, Tom C is growing more annoying and painful to watch by the day.
No, you didn’t really need to dredge up another excuse to use Terry Schiavo’s name to make a point.
June 28th, 2005 at 12:03 am
Why not? What happened to Terri was just as ignorant as Tom Cruise. George Felos claims that the supposed vegitative patients that he advocates the right to die for, somehow communicate with him their wishes. He shouts at them asking WHAT DO YOU WANT!!! After hours of doing that, he all of a sudden has some sort of epiphany on what their wishes are. If they are vegitative and cannot communicate, then how can he know what they want?
Add to all of this the wacky lefts push to remove religion from public life and Tom Cruise goes on national television and basically preaching his belief. And you have George “Attorney of Death” Felos who has a mystical ability to speak to spirts.
I’m with Cao on this 100%. Keep the Wack Jobs away.
June 28th, 2005 at 3:54 am
“Psychiatry is a pseudo science…” is a true statement (whole “continents” of psychiatry are non-falsifiable, for example). However, one truth doesn’t validate his position that the pseudo-religion of Scientology is anything other than pure B.S. Psychiatry, while largely unscientific, does have its useful points. Scientology, at least as I’ve observed it through its practitioners over the years, seems to function largely as a delusional system, you know, similarly to so-called “Liberalism.”
To demonstrate the utility of pseudo-scientiific psychiatry, and for a lil fun, look up “bi-polar disorder” in the DSM-IV and compare the diagnostic criteria with Cruise’s recent behaviors.
“Diagnostic criteria for 296.40 Bipolar I Disorder, Most Recent Episode Hypomanic
A. Currently (or most recently) in a Hypomanic Episode…
B. There has previously been at least one Manic Episode…or Mixed Episode…
C. The mood symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
D. The mood episodes in Criteria A and B are not better accounted for by Schizoaffective Disorder and are not superimposed on Schizophrenia, Schizophreniform Disorder, Delusional Disorder, or Psychotic Disorder Not Otherwise Specified… ”
There’s plenty more non-scientific psychobabble in the extended descriptions and diagnostic criteria for various bi-polar episodes, but it’s useful and highly descriptive psychobabble.
“Hypomanic Episode
DSM IV Criteria
A) A distinct period of persistently elevated, expansive or irritable mood, lasting throughout at least 4 days, that is clearly different from the usual nondepressed mood.
B) During the period of mood disturbance, three (or more) of the following symptoms have persisted (four if the mood is only irritable) and have been present to a significant degree:
1) inflated self-esteem or grandiosity [check]
2) decreased need for sleep (e.g., feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep) [anyone know?]
3) more talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking [check]
4) flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing [check]
5) distractibility (i.e., attention too easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli) [check]
6) increase in goal-directed activity (at work, at school, or sexually) or psychomotor agitation [check]
7) excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments)”
Put it this way: Cruise isn’t crazy; he just lost the “War of the Worlds” to alien mind-control…
June 28th, 2005 at 10:59 am
… as for Brooke Shields:
Brooke, you are an idiot and a hypocrite.
According to PEOPLE Magazine, she said:
“I agree with him (Tom) about his feeling on prescribing drugs to kids. We are in accord …I don’t think Ritalin should be prescribed to kids. Postpartum depression is a different matter. I think I’m more qualified to talk about that (than he is.)
Brooke, what the hell do you know about Ritalin?
June 28th, 2005 at 2:27 pm
Cruise acts like he is ON drugs. Don’t be surprised to find this out later.
June 29th, 2005 at 7:03 pm
WHEN are these celebrities going to realize that thinking people don’t give a hill of beans WHAT they think about anything? Laura Ingraham coined it: “Shut up and SING.”
The day that I need to look to Tom Cruise or Barbra Streisand for advice is the day that hell freezes over!
June 30th, 2005 at 3:46 pm
Cruise is right, Ritalin should not be prescribed to children under 13, unfortunately it is becomming more of a practice. Also the amount of Ritalin prescribed and the amount of children miss diagnosed is disgusting. As far as the scientologists, I don’t know why anybody is kicking them. All they are is an organized group with whom common beliefs are shared and to whom donations are paid to try to “convert-spread the word to others” just like Catholics, Christians, Jews, etc. If you disagree with me, explain why people give money to church, and why for example the christian/catholic religios organizations if you look at it from a business standpoint is the largest business in operation in the world, it makes microsoft look like a baby. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and religion, all religion is, is a holding figure and a reference point for a persons mind throughout life. The mind needs justification/verification if even at the subliminal level, hence Jihad etc. Leave Cruise alone, he is just like Jesse Jackson, or anybody else trying to spread his beliefs onto people whom don’t want them.
July 1st, 2005 at 3:27 am
Tom Cruise is an idiot and he is going down. Before this incident, all he did was just flash that grin of his… that’s what people do when they don’t know what to say… and I always thought of him as shallow. His superstardom has certainly gone into his head. Spielberg should have cast somebody else instead of him, more people would probably watch this movie… but not with Tom Cruise in it. He’s done! I hope people will boycott this movie. Does he really know what post partum depression is all about?
July 1st, 2005 at 2:33 pm
I just wanted to add that Mr. Cruises’ belief that psychological disorders can be cured by in large by vitamins and exercise is itself uninformed. Please look up the “case studies” and “research papers” on the benefit of multivitamins. This topic is somewhat contraversial as well in that most of whats ingested just comes out as waste. The only conclusion anyone can come to is unfortunately the Rumsfeld response. “This is a complex issue with many varied beliefs and opinions, and that basically is what we have, belief and opinion.” Any attempts to over-simplify it is an act of intellectual masturbation. I would never profess that all “Psychiatry” is bunk, or demean the fact that it may have helped many people. Tell some soldiers returning from Iraq somewhat traumatized to just do 50 laps and they will get over it.
July 1st, 2005 at 9:26 pm
July 4th, 2005 at 1:04 am
:twisted:i think tom cruise is just plain stupid and ignorant.i do not know how much education he has to justify his claims on psychiatry. i think everything is just for publicity for his new movie. let us all boycott his movie!!!!!
July 4th, 2005 at 7:15 am
Tom Cruise and John Travolta are boring losers. I can’t believe that people EVER found them interesting. They can’t even act! Very fake, and “camera-aware”. Please wake me when WOTW has left the theaters.
July 13th, 2005 at 10:54 am
I did not see Tom’s interview on Oprah or with Matt but He does have a point. Tom is not an idiot, sure he was acting a bit off and is excited about being in love and all that, but he shouldn’t act so weird, especially in public. And from what I have researched about Scientology, it is a bit wacko. Maybe Tom is being blackmailed by the cult like Travolta was. Maybe the cult is controlling him in some way….is it that really that far fetched? But even so, there is a point regarding the drugs and psychiatry. The drug companies are big business in this country. The drug companies kill people too,more than Scientology has and the FDA is weak- they do not do thier job, unless you call supporting big business doing their job. It is true that so many people are hooked on meds in this country it’s unreal. The crappy food we eat and our stressful, busy lives help contribute to our problems and our need for meds. It is a cycle and it all revolves around money. It was not always that way so why is it now? One reason,again- MONEY!! As a teacher I see almost every kid diagnosed with something…why? so they can get meds, get special privileges, or gov. funding. Anyone can be diagnosed these days. Tom has a point and has a right to speak just like anybody else, but Tom, just some advise, you can’t win no matter how much you’re worth. Too many people are dependant and want the meds and want to be babied, they are all weak and the government and the drug companies are too big and powerful to beat. People should do more research before they critisize…..and Tom, lose the cult if you can, you’re better than that.
NJS
July 13th, 2005 at 1:37 pm
Travolta was blackmailed by scientology? Do tell!
July 13th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
In the recent interview with Matt Lauer this is the point that Tom Cruise didn’t make.
Do you know how much prescription drugs are worth to Big Pharma? On a world wide basis about a trillion + dollars. How far do you think they would go to protect this income? How much do you suppose the pharmaceutical companies spend advertising drugs on TV, Radio, Magazines and News media? How much do they spend lobbying Congress to look the other way? How much do they pay (Grants) universities such as Harvard and Columbia to agree that drugging children is scientifically valid? Right now Ritalin is being dispensed in schools under the guise of treating over active children(AAD and so many disorders that it could fit anyone of us). Ritalin is a form of amphetamine and of course as time goes by and it doesn’t “work” the school psychologist then prescribes a higher dosage and then amphetamines and the end product is the teenager becomes a drug addict and a lifetime client. Please don’t believe me but take the time to research it, Google is a great tool for this. Keywords are Prozac, Ritalin, School shootings, and Suicide. Regards Michael Hammond
July 15th, 2005 at 2:43 pm
It’s amazing how Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, which is tribute to their mad former frontman, Syd Barrett, seems to be an eerie prophecy on the life of Mr. Cruise
Remember when you were young
You shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond
Now there’s a look in your eyes
Like black holes in the sky
Shine on you crazy diamond
You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom
Blown on the steel breeze
Come on you target for faraway laughter
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr and shine
July 23rd, 2005 at 11:14 pm
Death cult? Whacko? These are the words of ignoramuses. There are no death threats, murders, brain-washing or any kind of criminal or even dishonorable conduct from any Scientology churches. This “research” people such as the host claim to have done is off sites such as Xenu.net, a known anti-Scientology site which does not have any credibility if you use your brain.
You really think something as evil as the Church of Scientology after all this time would have have no criminal convictions against it? You really think that this 2.5% of excommunicatees or whatever low percentage it is could all be right when they’re the only ones telling their stories? What about the Church’s side of these stories? These people are all known violators of the Church’s ethical codes. ALL have done something wrong and are trying to shift the responsibility to the Church and the religion of Scientology for their woes. These people have done thing such as spreading false information Church staff, memebers and Scientology itself, denclined to take advantage of the Church’s internal justice system, KNOWINGLY did not properly apply Scientology principles and a host of other unsavory actions. Will they tell you this? No. Is there proof of their misdeesd? Yes. Will a reasonable person listen to this? No, as so demonstrated by the above idiots’ comments.
Calling Scientology a cult is a bit funny seeing how it is in many countries legally recognized as a religion, including here in the U.S. So basically these people can quote Xenu.net as a reliable source and ignore any other actual non-biased sources, but they will ignore the government when it says Scientology is in fact a religion. I find that a bit confusing.
As for Tom, it seems that “David” is apparently a doctor. Oh, wait, he’s just looking up symptoms in a book. Well, if diagnosing someone with a mental illness is so easy then I guess anyone could do it. Scary, isn’t it?
For the distanced viewer who has yet to form an opiinion on this issue, Tom Cruise or Scientology, just use your head and decide who’s the more credible. Oh, yeah, there’s also the facts, but those are only the icing on the cake.
Next, please.
July 26th, 2005 at 7:57 am
Oh my , he is stupid !
Up untill cocktail he was ok ….
Such a shame to see him do this to himself !
September 9th, 2005 at 7:41 pm
On a lighter note check out this Tom Cruise humour post at http://atozworldblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/new-top-gun.html