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Monday, Jun. 27, 2005 - 1:56 p.m. (Disclaimer - I only know what I got off of the internet. And they can't lie on the internet, can they?) Antidepressants - Tom Cruise maintains, "These drugs are dangerous. I have actually helped people come off. 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. You can use vitamins to help a woman through those things." Okay Tommy, here's a little FYI. While I had a touch of PPD, I didn't even think about taking antidepressants (Hell, I couldn't think much at all at that point.), but when I had three, count'em - THREE major incidents in my life during a two week period, I thought about them big time. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. And I wept. A lot. If I hadn't had a child, I may have muddled my way through it. But I had to be there not only physically, but mentally as well. My doctor (Shout Out Dr. O!) prescribed Anti-Ds and kept a close eye on me. Two months, Mr. Cruise. Two months is all it took for me to get over the hump and then we slowly discontinued the pills. Do you know how important two months is to a child? Two months of Mommy not giving a sh*t? Two months of Mommy letting you fend for yourself? Two months of Mommy holed up in her room weeping? I doubt if my Centrum could have carried me over that hump. Kept me healthy physically, but not mentally. And who are you to help wean people off of the drugs? Did you prescribe them? Then back off. Let the doctors (That would be the people with all of the letters after their names.) deal with their patients. And yes there is scientific evidence of emotional, chemical embalances. Again, leave that to the doctors. I used to like you as an actor. I enjoyed most of your movies. But now, I think you are just a freakin' freak. Run Katie. Run for your life and the lives of your unborn children!
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