{"id":41229,"date":"2025-01-15T14:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=41229"},"modified":"2025-01-15T14:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:41:25","slug":"brooke-shields-reignites-antidepressant-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=41229","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Shields Reignites Antidepressant Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brooke Shields at arrivals for New York Academy of Art\u201ds Tribeca Ball (Photo credit: depositphotos.com<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Republished with permission from AbleChild<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

During a 2005 interview with then \u201cToday\u201d show host Matt Lauer, actor Tom Cruise claimed that Brooke Shields was \u201cirresponsible\u201d for taking medication for postpartum depression because \u201cit didn\u2019t cure anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fast forward two decades and Shields<\/a>, in a new memoir Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old<\/u>, lets the public know that Cruise \u201ceventually\u201d apologized for shaming her explaining that \u201cit wasn\u2019t the world\u2019s best apology, but it\u2019s what he was capable of, and I accepted it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gee, that\u2019s so big of the actress considering that Cruise was accurate in his statements. Shields might not have liked the delivery, but Cruise was right that antidepressants \u201cdidn\u2019t cure anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

More galling, though, is that Shields continues to get it wrong. Shields says of Cruise\u2019s remarks that \u201cit was so ridiculous to me. It\u2019s not about the moral thing, or the right thing, or the good thing. It\u2019s about who has more power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

No, Brooke, it is about the \u201cright thing.\u201d It\u2019s about providing accurate information because lives are at stake when someone in a position of power, like yourself, doesn\u2019t provide accurate information and disparages others who do.<\/p>\n

For example, not only do antidepressants not cure anything, but the mind-altering drugs also don\u2019t treat any known abnormality. That\u2019s called accurate information. Let\u2019s repeat. Antidepressants do not treat or cure any known abnormality.<\/p>\n

The fact that Shields refers to Cruise\u2019s 2005 remarks as \u201chis ridiculous rant\u201d to \u201cadvance his own (deluded) agenda,\u201d reveals just how out of touch Shields is and how little the Ivy League graduate knows about the psychiatric drugs she took\/takes.<\/p>\n

This information isn\u2019t a new revelation. Never in the forty years that SSRI\u2019s have been on the market has any antidepressant treated any abnormality, least of all postpartum depression.<\/p>\n

Is Shields still under the impression the antidepressants treat a \u201cchemical imbalance?\u201d Hello? That theory has been utterly and completely debunked in a 2022 paper by Professor Joanna Moncrieff and Dr. Mark Horowitz<\/a> that revealed that \u201cIt is important that people know that the idea that depression results from a \u201cchemical imbalance\u201d is hypothetical.<\/p>\n

And we do not understand what temporarily elevating serotonin or other biochemical changes produced by antidepressants do to the brain. We conclude that it is impossible to say that taking SSRI antidepressants is worthwhile, or even completely safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

While many physicians have known this for decades, if anyone took the time to really consider the \u201cchemical imbalance theory\u201d they\u2019d quickly realize the nonsense of it.<\/p>\n

First, did a doctor conduct a test of the patient\u2019s brain chemicals to identify which chemical was out of balance? No. Why? There is no test known to man to measure anyone\u2019s brain chemicals. Moreover, even if there was a test, who decides what chemical level is accurate and when and how does one deduce that the chemical level is correct?<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s also be clear about Cruise\u2019s remarks. The Mission Impossible actor said, \u201cthere is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, Tom Cruise provided accurate information that may have been helpful to not only Shields but the wider television audience who may have been as misinformed as Shields. Rather than do her own research, which would have led her to the same accurate information as Cruise, the actress decided to take personal offense.<\/p>\n

If Shields believes that antidepressants were helpful to getting through postpartum depression that\u2019s great, but to suggest that the antidepressants were \u201ctreating\u201d any known abnormality is completely delusional.<\/p>\n

The actress could have known this fact by simply doing a brief search of whichever antidepressant she was taking, and it would have provided the information that she lacked.<\/p>\n

For example, if Shields had been prescribed Prozac, Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the mind-altering drug, advised the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that \u201cthe actions of Fluoxetine (Prozac) are presumed<\/em> to be linked to its inhibition of CNS neuronal uptake of serotonin.\u201d \u201cPresumed?\u201d Eli Lilly didn\u2019t have any definite idea about how the drug worked in the brain and hence they used a very lawyerly word to explain what is believed <\/em>to be working.<\/p>\n

Twenty years later, drug developers still are no closer to understanding why people are depressed or how any of the antidepressants \u201cwork\u201d in the brain.<\/p>\n

Plus, Shields also fails to reflect on the known very real serious adverse events associated with antidepressants, including mania, psychosis, suicidality, abnormal behavior, anxiety, aggression, confusion, depression, depersonalization, hallucination, paranoia, and abnormal dreams, and thinking to name a few.<\/p>\n

If Shields felt the need to start yapping about Tom Cruise again, it might have been nice to have her apologize to the actor for accusing him of providing misinformation twenty years ago.<\/p>\n

But it is no longer acceptable for the actress to continue to insinuate that Cruise was even remotely wrong in his statements about the now debunked \u201cchemical imbalance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Too many people are being harmed by these prescribed mind-altering drugs for someone in Shields position to continue to suggest that a chemical imbalance causes any psychiatric disorder and that any of the antidepressants \u201ctreat\u201d a chemical imbalance. It simply is false information.<\/p>\n

In fact, in the actress\u2019s new memoir, Shields could have corrected the record but, rather, the actress crows that Cruise apologized to her. Well, the record has been corrected. The actress now knows the facts. It probably won\u2019t be \u201cthe world\u2019s best apology\u201d but we\u2019ll wait for it.<\/p>\n

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