Access Exclusive: Tom On Psychiatry

A Scientologist like Tom Cruise will tell you that there are few things more dangerous than the widely accepted fields of psychology and psychiatry. You may not necessarily agree, but this is a man who is certain he is right and has no fear of offending those who swear they have been helped in their lives by psychiatry.

“You know, you have really got to evaluate what their lives are like,” said Tom. “Getting your children or yourself off these drugs, its is a dangerous dangerous business! I have recently helped family have their daughter get off drugs.”

Tom said his young friend had been on prescription drugs for the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ADHD from the age of three-and-a-half to seven. Weaning her off was no easy task.”

“We stepped the child off the drugs, got her vitamins and food,” he said. “She has calmed down now and she has grown seven inches in about four months. This is just one story of people that myself and other people have helped. And it is imperative that, even when people watch this, I’ve helped step them off. I have an easier time stepping people off heroin then I do these psychotropic drugs. They can have Grand Mal seizures. They can become suicidal. You have to do it under medical care, under a doctor and (with) vitamins because any drug you put in your system is a poison. Any drug is a poison.”

Tom was asked about drugs like Paxil and conditions like post-partum depression and he did not hold back his opinions.

“Let me tell you something: it is not a cure and it is actually lethal. These drugs are dangerous… There is a hormonal thing that is going on that is…scientifically, you can prove that. But when you talk about emotional chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.”

Brooke Shields, with whom Tom co-starred in “Endless Love,” recently wrote a book about her own bout with post-partum depression following the birth of her daughter, Rowan. She wrote about the drug treatment that helped her through it.

“Look at her life,” counters Tom. “Here is a woman – and I care about Brooke Shields because I think she is incredibly talented – (but) you look at where has her career gone? It has helped her. When someone says it has helped them, it is to cope. It didn’t cure anything. There is no science. There is nothing that can cure them whatsoever.”

Tom was asked if he meant drugs had cost Shields her career.

“Well, you look at people,” he said, trailing off….”Look – is she happy? Is she really happy?”

Tom went on to say, “What you can do with vitamins and exercise to help a woman through that, to help someone through that, all right. She doesn’t know what these drugs are and for her to promote it is irresponsible. And I wish her well in life. (But) it is irresponsible to do that.”

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