Tom Cruise POLL

Tom Cruise POLL

(I personally happen to agree with him, at least about Ritalin and Adderol.)

But I also think his behavior is odd...

i didnt see the interview

"he's nuts *therefore* I don't care about his opinion on psychiatry and drugs."

..he's still saying it because of a deep belief in Xenu and the Great Doctor Hubbard, more than anything else.

I agree that Dick Cheney is evil, but if some wackjob started foaming at the mouth about how "Dick Cheney eats children and rapes horses from Mars for spaghetti, therefore he is evil", I wouldn't be like, "hey, Dick Cheney is evil, this guy has a point!"

Get my drift?

...so he is functional and not comparable to a rabid loon on the street.

Scientology may be bunk, but from my perspective, all religions are bunk, so I don't really fault him for his choice of one set of mumbo-jumbo over all the others.

Adderol and Ritaling are way overprescribed. 3 million plus kids at this point...

I don't think you're correct in saying that he's "not comparable to a rapid loon on the street." No matter how much money he makes, he's still illogical, irresponsible, and dimwitted.

which is: I could care less about his religion and his personal life.

About Cruise's religion or personal life,both of which I think are based on his own illusions which he has every right to.

drugs...

I DO think doctors have gone wild by overprescribing meds, but there are people out there who really need them.

Tom Cruise should seek psychiatric help for his obvious mid-life crisis and stop doing interviews until he gets a handle on reality.

Oh to be rich and have a voice, even one is apparently crazy. Must be nice.

And if his on-air blathering prevents people who seriously need psychiatric help from seeking and getting it, then he's worse than crazy, he's malevolent.

some sane and not so sane people might listen to him and go off their meds.

i think matt lauer did very well in that debate considering it was so unexpected.

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about psychiatry to give any credible criticism on it (not that it doesnt deserve SOME criticism, but pulling for Tom Cruise to speak for you is like a chicken rooting for Colonel Sanders)

He discounts everyone else's personal experiences, and he is presenting his argument in the most pompous, arrogant way... and with those glassed-over cult eyes to boot.

He's not claiming psychiatric drugs and ADD/HD medications are over-prescribed. If he were, most would agree with him. He's claiming it's all crack science, and that if you claim that you or someone you know has benefited from these medications you don't know what the hell you're talking about. That he believes all our problems are caused by alien spirits we're dragging around with us put there by the intergalactic ruler Xenu and that you can be cured by forking over 35k to his church doesn't exactly help with the perception of his credibility/sincerity/sanity.

so i voted # one with this disclamer-

i believe Tom Cruise is 'troubled'-

i believe he has every right to embrace his 'religion' of scientology-

i believe there truly are benefits to psychological medications and that having a genuine mental illness has nothing to do with choice. The brain is an organ after all.

i believe that there ARE problems with over medicating 'especially' young male students, who are not made to sit idle for 45mins without getting antsy, and bored- nor are girls for that matter, we just seem better able to hide our symptoms, or are less threatening to many teachers.