“Brooke Shields has officially engaged with Tom Cruise in what is fast becoming a celebrity war of the wordz. After Cruise criticized Shields’ use of antidepressants as ‘irresponsible’ during an interview with Access Hollywood last week, Shields has suggested the leading man keep his opinions to himself.
‘Tom Cruise’s comments are irresponsible and dangerous,’ Shields said in London last week. ‘Tom should stick to saving the world from aliens and let women who are experiencing postpartum depression decide what treatment options are best for them.’
Shields recently published Down Came the Rain, a personal chronicle of her struggle with depression following the 2003 birth of her daughter, Rowan. The memoir delves into the actress’ use of Paxil as a form of treatment for her condition and is meant to inspire other women to seek help.
‘Don’t be ashamed, and don’t disregard what you are feeling,’ Shields writes in the book. ‘I recovered only because I got help.’ The actress has said she is currently in the process of weaning herself from the drug in order to try for a second child with husband Chris Henchy.
However, as a dedicated follower of s****tology, Cruise is of the belief that mind-altering medications of any kind are ‘dangerous’ and that women should treat conditions such as postpartum depression with ‘vitamins.’ Hence his stamp of disapproval on Shields’ choice to use Paxil and to discuss that choice in her memoir.
‘When you talk about postpartum, you can take people today, women, and what you do is you use vitamins. There is a hormonal thing that is going on, scientifically, you can prove that. But when you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that,’ the actor told Access Hollywood.” (Yahoo! News)
Certainly, Tom, there’s nothing scientific about it if you think in simplistic terms like ‘chemical imbalance’. I guess s****tology has clarified his thinking to the point that it is entirely see-through. I don’t know why I should be surprised that Cruise’s comments seem so incoherent. It takes a great deal of tolerance for illogic and cognitive dissonance to adhere to s****tology in the first place. Cruise also doesn’t seem to know much about postpartum depression. Most mental health clinicians think of it as much more akin to bipolar psychosis than simple depression. I wonder if Cruise is familiar with the not insubstantial number of cases of women who, in the throes of their postpartum delusional thinking, come close to murdering their newborns? It goes without saying that you cannot treat this with vitamins.
