Republished with permission from AbleChild
During a 2005 interview with then “Today” show host Matt Lauer, actor Tom Cruise claimed that Brooke Shields was “irresponsible” for taking medication for postpartum depression because “it didn’t cure anything.”
Fast forward two decades and Shields, in a new memoir Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, lets the public know that Cruise “eventually” apologized for shaming her explaining that “it wasn’t the world’s best apology, but it’s what he was capable of, and I accepted it.”
Gee, that’s so big of the actress considering that Cruise was accurate in his statements. Shields might not have liked the delivery, but Cruise was right that antidepressants “didn’t cure anything.”
More galling, though, is that Shields continues to get it wrong. Shields says of Cruise’s remarks that “it was so ridiculous to me. It’s not about the moral thing, or the right thing, or the good thing. It’s about who has more power.”
No, Brooke, it is about the “right thing.” It’s about providing accurate information because lives are at stake when someone in a position of power, like yourself, doesn’t provide accurate information and disparages others who do.
For example, not only do antidepressants not cure anything, but the mind-altering drugs also don’t treat any known abnormality. That’s called accurate information. Let’s repeat. Antidepressants do not treat or cure any known abnormality.
The fact that Shields refers to Cruise’s 2005 remarks as “his ridiculous rant” to “advance his own (deluded) agenda,” reveals just how out of touch Shields is and how little the Ivy League graduate knows about the psychiatric drugs she took/takes.
This information isn’t a new revelation. Never in the forty years that SSRI’s have been on the market has any antidepressant treated any abnormality, least of all postpartum depression.
Is Shields still under the impression the antidepressants treat a “chemical imbalance?” Hello? That theory has been utterly and completely debunked in a 2022 paper by Professor Joanna Moncrieff and Dr. Mark Horowitz that revealed that “It is important that people know that the idea that depression results from a “chemical imbalance” is hypothetical.
And we do not understand what temporarily elevating serotonin or other biochemical changes produced by antidepressants do to the brain. We conclude that it is impossible to say that taking SSRI antidepressants is worthwhile, or even completely safe.”
While many physicians have known this for decades, if anyone took the time to really consider the “chemical imbalance theory” they’d quickly realize the nonsense of it.
First, did a doctor conduct a test of the patient’s brain chemicals to identify which chemical was out of balance? No. Why? There is no test known to man to measure anyone’s brain chemicals. Moreover, even if there was a test, who decides what chemical level is accurate and when and how does one deduce that the chemical level is correct?
And let’s also be clear about Cruise’s remarks. The Mission Impossible actor said, “there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.”
Twenty years ago, Tom Cruise provided accurate information that may have been helpful to not only Shields but the wider television audience who may have been as misinformed as Shields. Rather than do her own research, which would have led her to the same accurate information as Cruise, the actress decided to take personal offense.
If Shields believes that antidepressants were helpful to getting through postpartum depression that’s great, but to suggest that the antidepressants were “treating” any known abnormality is completely delusional.
The actress could have known this fact by simply doing a brief search of whichever antidepressant she was taking, and it would have provided the information that she lacked.
For example, if Shields had been prescribed Prozac, Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the mind-altering drug, advised the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that “the actions of Fluoxetine (Prozac) are presumed to be linked to its inhibition of CNS neuronal uptake of serotonin.” “Presumed?” Eli Lilly didn’t have any definite idea about how the drug worked in the brain and hence they used a very lawyerly word to explain what is believed to be working.
Twenty years later, drug developers still are no closer to understanding why people are depressed or how any of the antidepressants “work” in the brain.
Plus, Shields also fails to reflect on the known very real serious adverse events associated with antidepressants, including mania, psychosis, suicidality, abnormal behavior, anxiety, aggression, confusion, depression, depersonalization, hallucination, paranoia, and abnormal dreams, and thinking to name a few.
If Shields felt the need to start yapping about Tom Cruise again, it might have been nice to have her apologize to the actor for accusing him of providing misinformation twenty years ago.
But it is no longer acceptable for the actress to continue to insinuate that Cruise was even remotely wrong in his statements about the now debunked “chemical imbalance.”
Too many people are being harmed by these prescribed mind-altering drugs for someone in Shields position to continue to suggest that a chemical imbalance causes any psychiatric disorder and that any of the antidepressants “treat” a chemical imbalance. It simply is false information.
In fact, in the actress’s new memoir, Shields could have corrected the record but, rather, the actress crows that Cruise apologized to her. Well, the record has been corrected. The actress now knows the facts. It probably won’t be “the world’s best apology” but we’ll wait for it.
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