Based on this article, maybe it’s time for a few celebrities to join Brooke Shields in a Just Say No to Scientology campaign. If some celebrities think it’s okay to poke around in other people’s medical decisions, wouldn’t it be only fair if the offenders’ religious beliefs were treated with equally intrusive disrespect?
It’s the seventies all over again, with an updated version of “Battle of the Network Stars.” I’m grabbing a Tab and some Pop Rocks and sitting back to watch.
So where to you suppose they hang their medical degrees? In a nice frame above the toilet?
The problem, I think, is that the non-Scientologists leaping to Cruise’s defense are basing their opinions on the fact that many anti-depressants are overprescribed. This may be true, but it’s not the issue at hand.
Tom is attempting to act as a mental health expert by dismissing the very existence of post-partum depression (and other illnesses) as a condition and says the symptoms can be treated with exercise and vitamins (or leeches, or prayer, or a set of Scientology books for a mere $550). Tom is not a health care professional, and he’s doling out medical advice based on…what? Anti-depressants, while over prescribed, have helped TONS of people for whom they were correctly prescribed. Dismissing that is dangerous and wrong. But what do I know?
A question Tom Cruise has obviously failed to ask himself.