Dr. Tom Cruise says no to psychiatry

Pengwuino

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english...ent_454551.htm

"Matt, Matt, you don't even — you're glib," Cruise responded. "You don't even know what Ritalin is. 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, OK. That's what I've done."

Anyone think he actually read more then 3 lines?

And i swaer if i see this guys face one more time, someones gonna hve to put me on ridalin.

cronxeh

ADD and ADHD is not due to a chemical imbalance in the brain, last I read about Ritalin research

Edit: ah scrap that.. last time I was digging on Ritalin was in 2002.. new research indicates:

There is increasing evidence that variants in the gene for the dopamine transporter are related to the development of ADHD (Roman et al., 2004, American Journal of Pharmacogenomics 4:83-92). This evidence is consonant with the theory of inefficacy of dopamine in people with ADD/ADHD; according to other recent studies, people with ADHD usually have relatively high dopamine transporter levels, which clears dopamine from between neurons before the full effect is gained from dopamine. Stimulant medications used to treat ADHD are all capable of either inhibiting the action of dopamine transporter (as methylphenidate does) or promoting the release of dopamine itself (as the amphetamine-class medications do). Therefore, it is theorized that stimulant medication allows the brain to enhance the effect of dopamine by blocking dopamine transporters or increasing the release of dopamine. Currently this is the most widely accepted model of ADD/ADHD etiology in the scientific and medical community.

New studies consider the possibility that norepinephrine also plays a role. (see Krause, Dresel, Krause in Psycho 26/2000 p.199ff).

Moonbear

I caught the clip of that interview that has been rebroadcast on other shows. Sure, he might have read them, but does he have the mental capacity to understand them? Actually, I wonder if he even knows that there's more to an article than the abstract. Lots of people know PubMed exists and look up stuff there, but don't know that only shows the abstract and you have to read the rest of the article elsewhere.

I'm sure he's just trying to build publicity for The War of the Worlds coming out soon (or is it out already). It's a shame, because I might have gone to see that movie if he wasn't in a lead role, but I can be almost assured of a disappointing performance now, so won't be bothering. Even if I was tempted to see it anyway, I think I'll boycott his movies for his activism against science. Too many Hollywood airheads are jumping on the anti-science bandwagon, and I think it's time to remind them to keep their noses out of issues they don't understand.

Soilwork

ahh man is there anyway I can get a video of this ??
I love seeing what a complete prat this guy is.
He went off at a 60 minutes host here because he said "so what do you think of people who say scientology is rubbish?" :)

Ivan Seeking

So, another victim of Scientology. No wonder Cruise has been acting so nutty.

cronxeh

well wait a minute there sport..

lets debunk his claims one at a time instead of completely degrading his ideas

in science classes they dont teach you that god doesnt exist or that there are no chakras - they teach you completely different things and concepts and you extrapolate everything after your first physics class and some even say that they are sure there is no god and no heaven - well ok perhaps, but you werent taught that in class

science is as exact as we could have achieved exactness due our understanding and capabilities. maybe there is something to the claims about the supernatural and idea of a separate consciousness.. nobody can say for certain where our mind has originated and the purpose of humanity in general

Ivan Seeking

I didn't say anything about God or the supernatural.

Ivan Seeking

I have known two people who really got screwed up by Hubbard's program.

Moonbear

Quote by Soilwork

ahh man is there anyway I can get a video of this ??
I love seeing what a complete prat this guy is.
He went off at a 60 minutes host here because he said "so what do you think of people who say scientology is rubbish?" :)

Not a video, but the transcript of his interview:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8343367/
You can spare yourself some boredom and skip the first page. The discussion of antidepressants and other psychiatry topics begins about midway down on page 2. I think I'll write to the Today Show and suggest that after that interview, they need to bring in an expert on depression and/or ADHD to offer a rebuttal and to properly educate their audience on the drugs and why they are prescribed.

You know, it's very common for those who need psychiatric help to reject psychiatry.

Evo

I remember reading an expose about Scientology years ago. They believe that every human has alien spirits in them.

If you don't know what Scientology is, read this.

"75 million years ago, there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu who was in charge of 76 planets in our part of the galaxy, including our own planet Earth, whose name at that time was Teegeeack."

http://www.skeptictank.org/gen3/gen01985.htm

cronxeh

well every religion needs a mythical plot that simply never happened like jesus or mohammed or in this case some alien ruler

Ivan Seeking

This is a cult, not a religion. It was huge in the 70's and 80's in California and a lot damage was done. One of the people I mentioned worked with Tsu and I. We had known her for at least a couple of years when she got into Scientology. Her personality changed almost overnight. AFAIK she was never the same; and not for the better by any measure.

Evo

Quote by cronxeh

well every religion needs a mythical plot that simply never happened like jesus or mohammed or in this case some alien ruler

Well, Jesus and Mohammed were real people, so I am assuming Xenu was real too.

Evo

Quote by Ivan Seeking

This is a cult, not a religion. It was huge in the 70's and 80's in California and a lot damage was done. One of the people I mentioned worked with Tsu and I. We had known her for at least a couple of years when she got into Scientology. Her personality changed almost overnight. AFAIK she was never the same; and not for the better by any measure.

The documentary was pretty scary. It showed people that tried to get out of Scientology and were threatened and harassed. They do not let go of you. It is a cult. Did you read my link?

Ivan Seeking

I'm going to make a SWAG and predict that we see Tom Cruise completely melt down. Well, that's bascially what we're seeing now, but I'll bet it gets a lot worse unless he gets smart in a hurry.

Evo

Quote by Ivan Seeking

I'm going to make a SWAG and predict that we see Tom Cruise completely melt down. Well, that's bascially what we're seeing now, but I'll bet it gets a lot worse unless he gets smart in a hurry.

He does seem a bit out of control lately.

I never liked him.

Ivan Seeking

Quote by Evo

The documentary was pretty scary. It showed people that tried to get out of Scientology and were threatened and harassed. They do not let go of you. It is a cult. Did you read my link?

Oh, actually no, I thought it said skeptic.org, which I did already check.

I think you will find that the doctrine varies according to whom you ask, but yes, that all sounds about right.

The first girl that I ever took on a date - my best friend's sister - got into Scientology. IMO it was one step along the road to self destruction. I attended her funeral a few years ago - heroin overdose.

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