+I Hate Tom Cruise

Because nobody knows the history of psychiatry as well as Tom Cruise.

I hate Tom Cruise. I can't think of a better way to start of a rant. I mean, seriously, starting off with an opinion so badass it can't even be topped... it's amazing. Tom Cruise is an idiot. I think we can all agree on that. If you need proof, you're dumb. But I'll give it anyway.

For those of you who don't know, Tom Cruise is the multi-millionaire actor who starred in such turds as Mission: Impossible, and the creatively named squeal Mission: Impossible 2, as well as other disasters such as Top Gun and Jerry McGuire, which was possibly the biggest piece of shit to float by in the cesspool that is Hollywood in quite some time. Tom Cruise usually stars in a flat, Keanu Reaves type role in which he stands around looking dapper and not actually doing anything important. His horrible taste in movies, or maybe the fact that people actually buy them, is disgusting enough to warrant my hatred, but his most recent outburst of idiocy came on the Today Show with Matt Lauer, in which he stated "I know psychiatry is a psuedo-science." He also said "Matt, Matt, Matt... You don't know the history of psychiatry, I do." My bullshitometer went off the moment I discovered this heap of rancid crap began speaking, but when he started talking about psychiatry, it about blew up.

Tom Cruise claims that psychiatry is evil, pure and simple. He contends that the science of psychiatry treats people like bags of meat (a title most people should be flattered to be given) without souls, and that psychological problems including but not limited to depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are non-existent and that psychiatry labels people with these disorders for some sinister purpose, which is never actually stated, possibly because Tom Cruise and the rest of the Church of Scientology have their heads up their asses. Cruise went on to say that, despite all actual scientific discoveries, "There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance in a body." Tom Cruise apparently likes to make shit up.

A friend of mine said the following on the situation, and I think it sums up my thoughts nicely:

Dear Tom Cruise,

I took biopsych. You obviously didn't. STFU.

Love,
Jolie

Tom Cruise knows the history of psychiatry apparently. But he's an actor, so he's basically a liar, meaning he knows exactly jack shit. For the record, Mr. Cruise attended 15 different schools, which led to a not entirely cohesive educational experience. Also, he never attended college, probably because he has no brain, and obviously no acting talent. Personally, if I were going to make a claim such as "I know the history of psychiatry" on national television, I would at least like to have a general psychology class to back me up. I know people who have been eaten alive for opinions simply because they don't have an MA in Psych. Our buddy Tom hasn't even taken an undergrad general psych class, in which he would have learned about such things as actual medical studies and real science.

Speaking of science, or lack thereof, I just have to say: what the hell is up with Scientology? I must say, I'm generally pretty tolerant of other religions. I have friends who believe in numbers of gods ranging from zero to about twenty, but does anybody really know what the Church of Scientology officially believes? Apparently, some alien warlord named Xenu exiled some people or something and sent them from their home planet to earth, and then a giant tv which had apparently been invented on this other planet played The Ten Commandments and The Passion and brain washed all of earth into believing in God and Jesus. We'll just ignore the fact that currently there are several thousand religions other than Christianity. We like ignoring facts in Scientology. There is also the matter of the fact that if there is intelligent life (and I use the term loosely) on this other planet, and that they were capable of intergalactic travel, why have we never detected them? For a religion that talks a lot about proof and facts, science fiction writer and founder L. Ron Hubbard sure left a lot of large plot holes.

Anyway, Tom seems to think that because mental illness is something we just make up, because I know every person with a mental disorder is suffering on purpose, that they should be denied treatment that works and given vitamins and therapy only by specially brainwashed, err, trained practitioners from the Church of Scientology. The therapy must be done only by them, they claim, because secular therapies cause disasters such as Columbine. "The shooting spree at Columbine High School is blamed in part on "anger management" classes that shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris allegedly attended." (Source.) Stop me if I'm wrong, but isn't that kind of like saying a person got cancer because they went to a cancer treatment center? But I don't know the history of psychiatry! Oh wait, yes I do, because I'm currently studying psychology in a higher institution, you know, that thing Tom didn't feel the need to attend.

I could go on for hours about how stupid and ridiculous Tom Cruise and his whacked up beliefs are, but I think you get the picture, and if you don't, you should be feeling some depression right about now. That is, the depression caused by my foot on your face. I bet Tom Cruise would like to be this right.

Get me out of here!