I think his official mid-life crisis has now cleared the runway.

Why are the pretty ones always insane?

Stymie said:

It's hard to be pretty! (So I hear!)

ella731 said:

I will NEVER go to another Tom Cruise movie, or rent one

He does not know what he is talking about, he is not a doctor. Who the hell does he think he is? He is extremely irritating, what a total jerk.

npgmaverick said:

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[Edited 6/24/05 11:36am]

Here's a link where you can read the transcript of this interview: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8343367/

However, it may annoy you. He really does sound like he was being a pompous ass.

Tom, why have you forsaken yourself?

He's the new breed of Stepford... totally creepy

Stymie said:

Basically.

I wish the UFO would just come down and the aliens would take Tom Cruise away to be their leader, already!!!

HamsterHuey said:

KaleidoscopeEyes said:

It looks like he's trying to kill her

unlucky7 said:

He's trying to heal her without anti-depressants.

You guys have probably seen it but here's a link to watch the squirting incident. It's pretty fucked up. He's right - he's giving the guy an interview & look what he gets. What's supposed to be funny about that? Dumbasses...

http://www.tampabays10.co...ryid=15047

madartista said:

I saw that yesterday and I was shocked. It's one thing to watch snippets from the news but to see the interview as a whole was shocking. It was as sad as it was funny. Tom was really losing it on that show. Brother is crazy and is the one who REALLY needs help.

Come back to earth Tom! And bring Katie with you!

CalhounSq said:

Believe me, it wasn't the first time a guy squirted him in the face.

One of my co-workers said Katie Holmes must be good with a strap-on.

uPtoWnNY said:

Tom Cruise is a bold motherfucker.

And I respect that

He says what the fuck he wants and doesn't care how anyone takes it.


He's seems pretty smart ... but I have no idea how he could research the origins of Scientology and think it's a defendable religion as it was created by its founder as a joke.

BUT all that aside, I have similar views on the use of medications.


A lot of people are sick mentally and physically because they are not living life consciously, reflectively and making beneficial changes.

I would never take prescriptions. I have taken antibiotics once for a illness that wouldn't go away, but as a rule I don't like putting chemicals in my body, not even for a headache.

There are natural remedies or my mind can think and figure out some way to rescue myself from pain.

Like Nietschze I believe many people can heal themselves (he should know, he was crazy ).

I remember going through a depression phase because I was unhappy with my job... I was analyzing where I wanted to be in life and what my philosophies were and how the very essence of the job contradicted my philsophies.

My friend's stupid suggestion: go to a doctor and get some anti-depressants.
What? There's a reason for depression. Your emotions are signals that something in your life is wrong and need to be understood and changed. I respect that. I'm not covering up valid emotional-chemical responses with pills!

The superficial, feel-good at any cost life is not for me. Too shallow

I'd rather be sad as I work to change my job and life with integrity than to buffer my emotions and be fake happy while living a hypocritical life.


And that's what's wrong with society.

We are out of touch with our natures. When our natures bring us pain, we don't analyze why and change our perspectives or actions, we sedate our pain and thereby silence some great revelations.

I'm sure Brooke Shields had some subconsious fears about pregnancy or giving up her independent identity to a child, etc.

Rather than rationalize and work through whether her thoughts were valid or fallacious, she doped up.

She missed an opportunity to think through the pain and grow. That's too bad. She'll never really know thoughts caused the emotional reaction that caused the chemical reaction that caused the post-partum depression.

That's too bad.

I'm glad Tom is speaking out.

Kids are especially being doped up way too much for so-called illnesses.

SynthiaRose said:

You are entitled to your opinion and I respect it, I just totally disagree with you. I think Tom should mind his own damn business instead of putting someone down because they need medication. I will probably need medication soon for my depression and if I know that it will get me through my day or help me until I can make my situation better, then someone telling me I'm weak or whatever won't make a bit of damn difference to me.

My son is on Abilify, an anti-psychotic. I invite Mr. Cruise to come live with us if I take him off of it.

The thing is no one can really tell anyone else how to live their lives.

People have to decide for themselves.


Rarely do I go around preaching that others should share my view. But if someone asks my opinion, I tell them.


Perhaps Tom crossed the line when he named Brooke specifically. And tried to impose on a specific life instead of making general statements.

I don't think he did it to be obnoxious. I think he was really sorrowful that she chose that way out.

But it's a tough call ... talk and enlighten or keep it to yourself and deprive people of hearing about other non-chemical options.
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Stymie said:

I agree with you. My nephew is 13 and is bi-polar. He NEEDS to be on medication to stabilize his brain chemistry. Before he was diagnosed and started medication, life was a nightmare for both him and his mom, and admittedly finding the *right* medication/s for him was a long, difficult process for him and painful for all of us who love him to watch, but thankfully the meds he is on now are working miracles and he is doing well, and is happy and able to function in regular school (which was VERY important to him, for obvious reasons) and in life in general. I cannot express how heartbreaking it was to hear this little boy cry and say he doesn't understand why he feels/acts the way he does sometimes...last year he even ASKED - a 12 year old child ASKED - to be put into a psychiatric hospital because he felt suicidal and also felt like hurting other people to the point where he was terrified. He was hospitalized for three weeks that time.

I thank God for the medications that exist that have given my nephew a normal life.

OK, cruise is a great actor and all--but damn, I'm tired of that guy.

SynthiaRose said:

When Tom becomes a woman and has to deal with the hormonal changes that go with that, he can enlighten me. Til then, he can shut the fuck up. He claims to know psychiatry, I know about being a woman and the shit I went through after the birth of my children.

It's one thing to share, just like any other faith but when you start telling other people what they are doing is wrong, then I have a problem. I think Brooke was brave to even tell people what she went through because people can be cruel. I don't see what she did as taking a way out, being weak, any of that. She did what she feel she had to.

KaleidoscopeEyes said:

i'm very happy for your family.

Stymie said:

Thanks, I appreciate that very much and I know my family would, too.

I hope your son is doing well also.

SynthiaRose said:

I see what you're saying, as well as where Tom is coming from. I don't completely disagree either. I've been on and off anti-depressants many times, and for the most part I avoid it. I've never had a great benefit from them, and I usually feel worse with them. On the other hand, I KNOW they saved the life of my bipolar boyfriend when he was in a suicidal phase. Brain chemistry is very complex, and to say there is one rule for everyone just doesn't cut it. I can make choices about my body, and I don't need to hear Tom Cruise's commentary about them. It's not his job to save the world from itself. He has found his enlightenment his way, he can let the rest of us find it our way.

AsianBoi777 said:

I think he's kinda okay when he doesn't need to stretch himself. Good mostly, very good sometimes. I do think he's hot, though. When he's not bouncing on chairs.

madartista said:

Good to hear different perspectives. Your negligible experience with anti-depressants could be good for others to hear.
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VoicesCarry said:

Damn, is R. Kelly pissing on Tom Cruise now????

I agree with him.