Brooke Shields is generally regarded and beautiful. She is also famous, apparently funny, at least more talented than I am, seemingly intellegent (Princeton grad), and, I would assume, wealthy.
She has it all. And gets PPD. Which means ordinary women who get PPD and aren’t beautiful, funny, Princeton grads and are worried about how they will make ends meet, might really be up against something.
As a Hollywood actress, she’d be rare if she didn’t have access to a physical trainer and a dietician or nutrionist. And rare if pre and post birth, she didn’t use that access. Those professionals, in addition to her own MD (who I’m sure didn’t get a dial in degree from a Jamaican med school) will give her advice regarding the psychological benefits of diet and exercise (and there is something to be said for that). But Cruise can give flippant advice regarding taking vitamins to a woman who is probably swarming with professionals trained in the topic. 'Cause he knows better.
Seriously. If you’re going to pick a religion based on a sci-fi author, I say go with the Cult of Cthulhu.
The sad thing is, people like us Dopers KNOW better than to listen to the clams. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t really know anything about Scientology, and a lot of people have prejudices against psychology (all the comments about drugging kids up or whatever could’ve come from your average fundy). So I think a lot of people, not realizing what Scientology is all about are gonna think, “Damn, he’s right! All these damn kids on Ritalin, they just need a spanking!”
That’s what scares me.
The man cannot tell the difference between anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, and stimulants.
Hell, I could do that on my own, for free. That’s EXACTLY what OCD does-you keep going over and over the same thing, the same thoughts.
I wasn’t citing that site so much as I was what it was linking to. There’s a lot of people claiming that it does cause brain damage, and a lot claiming that it doesn’t. The consensus from the psychiatrists seems to be that it may cause limited persistant memory loss but doesn’t cause other permanent damage. Others beg to differ. More studies would certainly be helpful.
I’ll admit that I don’t trust the psychiatric community one little bit when it comes to this issue, and I’d need to see some pretty compelling long-term evidence that it’s harmless before I’d believe them.
Gangster Octopus, the disappointing thing was learning of another person falling for what I feel is a bad scam, and now is someone whom I have less respect for, in reference to the comment by Mockingbird. Not that I was disappointed to have had a fun argument with Metacom.
