“There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.”
It’s pretty clear to everyone but Tom Cruise that he should be embracing, not shunning psychiatry. Over the past month, he’s seemingly launched a very public cry for help with his wacky, fist-pumping shenanigans and bizarre commentary. His latest installation – the Matt Lauer interview – could be his most disturbing one yet in this real-time nervous breakdown disguised as a press junket. And we all know the Church of Scientology is probably getting ready to issue “Tom Who?” press releases, as he’s surely damaged their “we’re so not a cult” image.
When Cruise said, “Matt, you don’t know the history of psychiatry, I do.” I wanted Matt to collapse into a hysterical giggle fit. When Cruise called him “glib,” I wanted Matt to kick the stool out from beneath Cruise and give him a good old-fashioned ass-kicking. But unlike, Cruise, Matt remained professional, stayed in character. It’s going to be impossible for Cruise’s audience to suspend disbelief and accept him in movie roles after this Tour de Crazy.
“I don’t talk about things that I know nothing about.” Ok, then how can someone whose never given birth or even been in a relationship with someone’s who’s given birth, deny the existence of post partum depression? If he doesn’t believe in antidepressants, he shouldn’t take them. End of story. Maybe he’s been lucky enough to be healthy, to be free from any physical or emotional pain. But there are millions of people out there whose bodies and minds betray them every day and the last thing they need is some aging actor with a Napolean Complex bashing their choices on international television. What will his next rant be about? According to Cruise, we’re all supposed to feel the physical and emotional pain of life and not “mask” it. Will Cancer patients on Procrit, a drug that helps combat the energy-zapping effects of chemotherapy, be subject to scorn? Diabetics on insulin? Men wearing jock straps?
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What a nut
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