my view of Tom Cruise's bitching

Tom Cruise has definitey crossed the line. Lambasting Brooke Shields for the courageous path she took, taking things into her own hands and deciding that she will not put her child's life in danger. I call that heroic. His religion is science. His beliefs, however, disagree with science. He is trying to be a moralist, pretending to be someone who cares. But his way of caring is destroying another person. If he really cared, why did he not invite Brooke and talked to her in person instead of going on national tv and telling everyone that what she did was wrong? Just because it wasn't his way, that makes it wrong?

Postpartum depression is very real. To this day, the stigma remains, veiling this reality. The way it did childhood depression a few years back. For these people, suicide becomes the only option. How many lives have we lost just because of shame and bigotry, of ignorance and denial, and plain stupidity? And because of Tom's declarations, we just might as well tell the mothers who are suffering from post-partum depression, that they can just quit because it's all in their minds. They can just go ahead and cease to live because no one should care, because there's no scientific proof of it's authenticity. Well, here's the thing, 12 years ago, science was so sure that brain cells, once destroyed, do not regenerate. But lo and behold, Christopher Reeve showed us it just isn't so. The bain can rewire, and regain lost function.

The discoveries of science can only be as wondrous as our means to discover. It is not absolute. If Tom says there's no proof, I say we just haven't found them yet. Who knows, maybe soon it will be definite- his forefather is indeed the ape.

FYI's:
http://wingofmadness.com/

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depression.cfm

http://suicide-awareness.00page.com/

http://www.mommy-muse.com/Help.html