If a movie star was to say
cancer treatment has no scientific basis
and hurts people, everyone would be outraged.
We should be similarly outraged by Mr. Cruise.
We should be similarly outraged by Mr. Cruise.
Every time we pick out psychiatry to discredit,
we are really hearkening back to the
DARK AGES. 
We all need to be more scientific and more up to date.
There are many sources for good information,
We all need to be more scientific and more up to date.
There are many sources for good information,
including our own National Institutes of Health,
universities from coast to coast,
advocacy associations composed of
with mental illness and their family members –
all of whom have credentials.
It is a terrible disservice for a person without such credentials
all of whom have credentials.
It is a terrible disservice for a person without such credentials
and to tell other people to stop taking their medicine.
Tom Cruise is misguided when it comes to health and medicine.
Psychiatry is no more a pseudoscience than
acting is a pseudo-profession.
It's possible that living his entire adult life in the business
It's possible that living his entire adult life in the business
of make-believe has led Tom Cruise to pretend
that he knows more than he actually does.
Psychiatrists,
just like all other medical specialists,
do save lives.
“…Tom Cruise also stood by his earlier criticism of actress
Brooke Shields for using medication to treat her postpartum depression,
suggesting that she should have relied instead
on vitamins and exercise.”
(June 2005) 
I have some experience and knowledge
I have some experience and knowledge
with nutrition, vitamins and exercise
in relation to mental illness,
The first course of action taken in the treatment
of my brother’s illness
was a combination
of vitamin therapy and psychiatric care.
When his illness escalated into a series of violent
When his illness escalated into a series of violent
and ”life-threatening” situations,
psychotropic medication (Haldol) was finally administered.
psychotropic medication (Haldol) was finally administered.
Although it is not a cure,
the medication does work.
In the past 25 years I have known
In the past 25 years I have known
many, many psychiatrists, but there was one doctor
who had the best description of how psychotropic medications
(i.e., Haldol, Thorazine, Navane, Prolixin, etc…)
work on a schizophrenic mind.
He was especially helpful at a
trying time for me,
when the two people I loved
the most in this world were both ill.
My brother with mental illness
and my mother with terminal cancer.
He explained it in the form of an analogy.
I met him during the beginning stages
of my brother’s illness…
Picture
a small transistor radio
inside the head of a
or for that matter,
Imagine a radio inside
YOUR OWN HEAD.
Now imagine that radio is turned on
FULL volume
to some talk radio station where all
you hear 24 hours a day, 7 days a week are
VOICES.
The medication cannot turn that radio off,
but it can lower the volume on the radio
so that the only voice heard is that of
YOUR OWN.
