June 24, 2005
A rant before a cute fluffy animal
Everyone knows my feeling on superstars. I could give a rats ass about chasing them down and shaking their hands or getting an autograph. To me they are talented people who are lucky enough to have gotten a break. I love Tori Amos, I think she is a beatiful singer and of course I love to sing and dance to TMBG, but my point is that I know so many other people in my real life who are just as talented and they have not gotten the same break. I have never had the urge to write a letter to a celebrity, until now.
Mr. Fucking Insane Does Not Know What You Are Talking About Tom Cruise,
You are really starting to piss me off. I really could care less that you are in the church of "Scientology", but I do care that you have influence over many people in the US and you are massively abusing it. To hear what you said this morning about how you have "studied" how anti depressants and other "mind-altering" prescription drugs work pisses me off. YOU have no clue what those drugs do to people who need them to live a normal life.
Aparentally the drugs are what have fucked people like me, Bonnie, Clifford and my grandmother up. "Therapy" is all we need.
FUCK YOU
If I could pull your head out of your ass and drag you to Alabama I would. I would bring your ass to my aunt's grave and ask you what the hell "just therapy" was doing for her when she blew her brains out. I would then take you to my grandmother's house and introduce you to her and the other 9 women who live with her. I would take all 10 of these mentally imbalanced women off of their medications and have you stay in that house for a month.
Trust me if "just therapy" would work for my grandmother than we would have hired a full fucking time therapist because I would give anything to have her be normal. I would give anything to have her hug me and ask about my life and how my husband is without freaking out if I say the wrong word. I would love to have invited my grandmother to my wedding or let her hold her grandchild in the future. Most of all, I would love for my mother to have a real mother, the kind she never had. Unfortunately, "just therapy" does not do that.
Atleast I can hug my grandmother and atleast she knows who I am. These are things she did not know when I was a child, but now that she is taking those "evil mind altering drugs" she seems to be doing much better.
After all this I would bring you to my house and introduce you to a 12-year-old boy who used to be so angry he would hit us and throw his desk across the room at school. A little boy who just two weeks ago finally told my husband and I how happy he finally is. This is the same little boy who would hardly hug me two years ago before he was on the right medication and didn't even cry when his dog ran away, because he just couldn't feel.
Oh yeah...by the way, Mr. Cruise. I know someone else who anti-depressants have helped. Me. I wouldn't be typing these words today if they didn't. The day you wake up in the morning and don't want to open your eyes, don't want to breath or talk...then you can tell me and everyone else that you "know all about it".
I am not saying that these medications work for everyone. EVERYONE is different. Just because some dumb ass kid (who probably sneezed in class so his parents over reacted and thought he had ADD or depression) kills someone does not mean the drugs are at fault. Just because the doctors pass out pills like they are candy to kids does not mean that it does not work for people who need them.
In closing...the United States is a free country and you are welcome to spread your words as far and wide as you want. But, I will tell you this. My children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be raised not to listen to mindless shitheads like you. They will look at me and my husband and realize that if it were not for those "mind-altering drugs" they would not be here.
Be careful what you tell people. Just because you have the power of celebrity does not mean you are right and I am going to make DAMN sure I tell everyone that.
Fuck You
Shannon
Now here is a picture of a cute fluffy animal to bring my boiling blood pressure down:
BOGEY!
ok, not to defend tom cruise or anything scientology related (i've just come into knowledge regarding that "religion"), but his point wasn't that the drugs are evil, but that anything prescribed or done by a psychiatrist is evil. you see, all scientologists regard psychology as pseudo-science. so what he was saying is that he "... know[s] the history of psychiatry" and, therefore, has no regard for it. antidepressants don't work because they are derived from a pseudo-science. his advice would probably be to come with him and be brainwashed...either that or go through the purification ritual which entails taking large quantities of vitamins (who says that those aren't fake, too? they're pills, right?).
Posted by: godemperor at June 24, 2005 04:34 PM