https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a22098/tom-cruise-spars-with-today-show-host/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eymr9NZpna8
2005: Tom Cruise on Psychiatry (going against)
I've never agreed with psychiatry ever
Before I was a Scientologist I never agree with psychiatry and then when I started studying the history of psychiatry I started realizing more and more why I didn't agree with psychiatry
and as far as the Brooke Shields thing is look yeah you have to understand I really care about Brooke Shields
I think here's a wonderful and talented woman and I want to see her do well and I know that psychiatry is is a pseudoscience
but Tom she said that this particular thing helped her feel better whether it was the antidepressant or going to a counselor or psychiatrist isn't that enough
You have to understand this here we are today where I talk out against drugs and psychiatric abuses of electric shocking people against their will of drugging children with them not knowing the effects of these drugs
Do you know what adderall is?
Do you know Ritalin?
Do you know now that Ritalin is a street drug?
Do you understand that?
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All it does is mask the problem Matt and if you understand the history of it
it masks the problem that's what it does that's all it does you're not getting to the reason why there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance
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there's ways of vitamins and through exercise and various things I'm not saying that that isn't real
that's not what I'm saying that's an alteration of what I'm saying
I'm saying that drugs aren't the answer that these these drugs are very dangerous
they're mind-altering drugs and there are ways of doing it without that so that we don't end up in a Brave New World
the thing that I'm saying about Brooke is that there's misinformation
and she doesn't understand the history of psychiatry
she doesn't understand in the same way that you don't understand that
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if you start talking about chemical imbalance you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories Matt okay
that's what I've done here you go and you say where's the where's the medical test
Where's the blood test that says how much Ritalin is supposed to get?
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here's the point
what is an ideal scene in life okay
ideal seen as someone not having to take antipsychotic drugs
okay so now you look at you go okay a departure from that ideal scene is someone taking drugs okay
and then you go okay what is the theory in the science behind that that justifies that