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What was the deal with psychotherapy/antidepressants, Brooke Shields and Tom Cruise


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Was Brooke Shields on antidepressants or undergoing psychotherapy?
What business is it of Tom Cruise's.

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Brooke suffered a major onset of postpartum depression. She got help for it. Cruise being a good little Scientologist drone had to open his trap. It set women’s rights groups against him. He later publicly apologized as damage control for his career

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postpartum

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Thank you. I Corrected it.

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No problem, good comment.

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Tom Cruise condemned psychotherapy and criticised people who experience depression (apparently, Scientologists don't get depressed... 🙄), so, although he wasn't personally attacking Brooke, she, quite reasonably, took offence as someone who'd experience post-partum depression, and has taken medication/had therapy.

On *this* occasion, I am staunchly on Brooke's side.

It's just a shame that going by some of the other threads on this board, she apparently has a tendency to play the victim, which, sadly undermines all the good and sensible things she had to say about her experiences on *this* occasion.

Remember, folks, DON'T over-egg the pudding. Focus on specific negative experiences, in this case, *depression*. But if *everything* is bad, it's hard to treat an individual credibly any more, and it just comes across as scattershot sympathy seeking.

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