Brooke Shields calls Cruise's comments "dangerous"

Yeah for you post #62! My feelings exactly.
Maybe Brooke could give him advise on impregnating women. I'm sure he wouldn't mind as long as he's doling out the advice on subjects he's not have real experience with. Has it become a pre-requisite that you have to become a Hubbard believer to date him? just wondering.....

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I do not know the context in which Mr. Cruise was ask or decided to comment on Ms. Sheilds dilema but, commenting publicly on a persons decision to take anti-depressents is rude. Just like my mother used to say "If you haven't got anything goog to say, don't say anything."

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Well, I am with the thousands of other TC fans who are thankful that Tom is letting women know that drugs are NOT the best solution. You TC haters can go on hating. I just hope you set a better example for your children than saying YES to drugs. 'Cause that's exactly what you're doing.

I, for one, am going to go out on the 29th and have a blast watching War of The Worlds. This is definitely one see on the big screen! You anti's will just have to miss out.

LSM
PPD Survivor
Happy mother of 2

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It`s absolutely true, LSM -- I, personally, couldn`t care less about TC or what he says, but I am definitely teaching my children to say YES to drugs, if they need them to maintain the quality of their lives.

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Tom Cruise has no business commenting on women's issues that he has no experience with. Brooke Sheilds is brave for coming out and telling her story and how dare he impose his beliefs on someone who is doing a great service to women with post partum depression. Way to go Brooke. Tom Cruise could use a little medication to tame his ego as far as I'm concerned.

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Maybe we could all go protest the opening of Cruise's latest movie so that the movie gets extra media coverage and more people attend the movie and Cruise makes a greater profit.

Is he a dumbass or just very clever?

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I vote for "clever dumbass", myself.

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What can you expect from someone who espouses L.Ron Hoover and the 1st Church of Appliantology. The guy is a narcisistic moron.

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By Brooke telling her story, I felt the shame of post partum being lifted. Tom Cruise attempted to put the shame back. Try again, Mr. Cruise. I'd believe a level headed Harvard grad any day over a Scientology-touting, twice divorced man who makes his living off publicity from dating girls 20 years his junior.
Go Brooke!

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Tom C. has it right. "I'm feeling sad today; let's pop some drugs" is not medicine any more than dropping acid is. But than Psychology and Psychiatry isn't medicine or even a science. The drugging of a population in the name of "help" is criminal and TC has my respect for standing up against the criminal organizations of Psychiatry. Kudos to TC and all free thinkers.

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The advice of Tom Cruise can be deadly. A mentally ill scientologist, Jeremy Perkins, killed his scientologist mother because she treated him with vitamins because of scientology's hate against psychiatry. (Search the name on google)

"Doctor Cruise" should concentrate on acting.

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I suffered from a serious postpartum episode and the ER Dr.'s wanted to put me on drugs for it. But thanks to Scientologist family memebers, I handled it with nutrition and Scientology assists designed specifically for pregnant mothers called "Pregnancy Assist". I can thankfully say I don't need drugs to continue living my life. Brooke's comments on Access Hollywood showed she couldn't even define what a chemical imbalance was. She said 'there's some sort of chemical imbalance going on' and she seemed confused about it herself. In my opinion, Pyschiatry and psychology are the DMV of mental health.

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How is it that advocating drug free living is somehow putting "shame" on a woman for having strong emotional reactions to a life changing event? Criticism of the drug solution is evidently forbidden by the high priests of social welfare. I agree with Tom that drugs are not the solution. Brooke, of course has the right to control her own body, including what chemicals she does or does not take, but my opinion is that Tom sets a better example in the discussion of drugs vs no drugs.

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Tom Cruise is an actor, not a doctor. His criticizing the medical treatment of anyone is the height of arrogance!

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Looks like this comment thread has been overrun with Scientology idiots. Funny how if there's a mention of these morons in a public forum they come running. Think maybe they're scanning threads? Anyway, Cruise is an idiot...

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The truth of the matter is that some women get post-partum depression. What causes it? Lack of sleep? Hormone drop? Stress of being a new mom? Guilt? Regardless of what causes it and what can cure it (vitamins or the latest pharmaceutical technology), it's a huge problem that can devastate new families. I would much rather take a chance on using the evil drugs than kill myself or my precious baby.

Like most women's issues, I think those who aren't women or aren't trained in women's issues (medical or otherwise) shouldn't claim to give expert advice on anything. Tom Cruise is an actor, not a doctor! It's all a freakin' publicity stunt.

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Since when does medicine own a monopoly on mental health? The idea that one has to be a medical doctor to have an opinion on such issues and share it is blatantly false.

Did you know that suicide and homicide also happen to be side-effects of most anti-depressants, or haven't you been reading the news? Front page news today shows drug companies still hiding dangerous clinical trial results. As a mother of two and someone who has successfully beaten post-partum depression using nutrition, my point of view is that since the drugs can cause the very things they tout to resolve, I can't afford the risk. Take a look at Andrea Yates.

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As far as what causes it - think about it: You have just lost a ton of bodily fluids and if you tore, a lot of blood. You may have had some sort of anesthesia as well, which your body is trying to cope with. You're exhausted from delivery, and if the baby wakes up every two hours, you are also sleep deprived. If your husband has to go back to work to support you, you are left alone with the baby. This is a common scenario. The baby is screaming and you can't figure out why. You start to get frusturated and feel like an incompetent moron. As far as sleep goes, evertime you close your eyes the room starts spinning, and you have nightmares that wake you up in the middle of the night on top of the baby's need to breastfeed. The chance to loose touch with reality comes on very easily at that point, and you can start wandering off into all sorts of irrational fears like that your husband might want to leave you, or even that he has it in for you, or you just can't seem to cope. When people are sleep deprived they can also have waking nightmares, such as envisioning themselves ramming their cars into things, ala Brooke Shields. Often, women do not get enough assistance after they have the baby, and have to deal with everything on top of trying to recover. Sometimes they have a spouse who is not as supportive as they should be.

I went to my doc and got a full blood workup to look specifically for nutritional deficiencies. On top of everything, I was anemic.

The nightmares and spinny head feeling subsided with plenty of B vitamins and electrolites. Calcium-magnesium drinks helped me get to sleep. Getting more assistance with the baby also helped. When my husband got home, I would hand him the baby and walk out. Counseling with someone who I could express my feelings to, who was specifically trained in Scientology counseling, got to the root of my depression and caused me to let myself heal, and I returned to normal. I love my kids, they love me and all that mumbo jumbo went away so I get on with life.

The scenario is always different depending on individual circumstances. A competent Doctor/Nutritionist can help you find your deficiencies and or provable medical illnesses to treat. Many women make it through postpartum depression without the need for counselling or any other intervention and with lots of supportive family and friends.

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Actually, Kerri, Brooke went to Princeton, not Harvard -- not that it matters. The Ivy League has its share of dumbasses.

I think this is more of a matter of free speech than anything else.

Tom Cruise is entitled to his opinions, no matter how half-baked they may be. Anyone is free to speak about anything, no matter how silly, irreverent or potentially dangerous those ideas may be. Brooke was right to respectfully respond to Tom with her own very different point of view.

Tom thinks he`s doing the world a favor by sharing his Scientologist thoughts. The number of Scientologists who rushed to defend him shows that there are many people who find meaning and comfort in this religon/philosophy -- and they freely chose it, and are living with their choices.

As Ism says above, the scenario is always different depending on individual circumstances. I`m NOT a Scientologist, but I freely chose not to take drugs when I suffered from PPD after my first baby -- I was afraid that the drugs would go into my milk and damage my son somehow, so I tried to cope with it through nutrition and exercise instead. In retrospect, I regret this decision, because I think my son would have been better off if his mother hadn`t spent the first year of his life walking around weeping all the time. But I made my choice, based on the best information I had at the time, and I will live with it.

Brooke is right to share her experience, Tom is right to share his beliefs, and anyone who thinks celebrities are a major source of medical advice is a dumbass.

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