Despite his (one-year late) apology to Brooke Shields, it is self-evident that
Tom Cruise
knows nothing about anti-depressants and should therefore learn to shut up.
Idiots in the
public figure like him have done much to put mental illness in a bad name.

Shame of you, Cruise!

Tom Cruise apologised to actress Brooke Shields for attacking her use of
anti-depressant
drugs, she has told a US television chat show.

"He came over to my house and gave me a heartfelt apology," 41-year-old Brooke
Shields
told Jay Leno's Tonight Show.

Cruise accused Shields of failing to understand psychiatry in 2005 after she
disclosed
taking medication to treat post-natal depression.

"He has not changed his position about anti-depressants," said Arnold Robinson,
a
spokesman for Cruise, adding the actor still considers the drugs to be
"unhealthy".

Shields, said: "I was so impressed with how heartfelt he was. I did not feel
that he was
trying to convince me of anything other than the fact that he was deeply sorry.
And I
accepted it."

In June 2005, Cruise spoke of his opposition to psychiatric medicine, calling it
a "pseudo
science". He is a follower of Scientology which is against the use of drugs to
treat mental
health problems.

After his attack on Shields, the actress denounced the remarks as a "ridiculous
rant" and a
"disservice to mothers everywhere". She suffered from post-natal depression
after the
birth of her first daughter in 2003 and wrote a book about her experiences
called Down
Came The Rain: My Journey Through Post-Partum Depression.