Stupid comment by Tom Cruise about people suffering from depression?  

Tom Cruise & whoever said that last comment are complete idiots. I have suffered from depression on & off my whole life & trust me I am NOT posessed by the devil although I have been called a bit&^%$##ch from time to time LOL. Depression for most of us is just a part of life that unfortunately we have to deal with. Maybe if I had the money that Tom Cruise has I wouldn't be so depressed. Ya think??

I believe that Tom Cruise's opinions on most things are those his church gives to him so I don't pay too much to what he thinks. I just hope and pray that his wife never suffers from severe post partum depression. As far as being possessed by the devil goes, my husband suffers from post traumatic stress disorder with depression caused by the hell he witnessed during the Viet Nam war so, no, I wouldn't agree that he's possessed by the Devil.

Well damn, I wish someone would have told me earlier I was just possessed by the devil. I'd have gone and got an exorcism instead of taking these pills.

Thanks Tom!

I think that both comments are just plain stupid! However, I do think that doctors and drug companies can't wait to get folks hooked on their antidepressants. And why shouldn't they? It stimulates wealth for them! I think it is very important for the patient and their family to be paying very close attention to someone who is a good candidate for using such drugs. I do think that they are over prescribed but I do also think that they are needed by some.

From what I have seen lately Tom could use a tranquilizer or two.

His love of his chosen religion is a perfectly lovely thing. His zealot behavior is straight up creepy.

Tom.. Step away from the Kool-aid.

I think Tom Cruise is crazy, I think he has been brainwashed for a start and with his silly behaviour he will end up ruining his career, he is starting to even crazy...

Wow i have to agree that was a very stupid statement.Thats stupid,people who are depressed are not posessed by the devil,how silly...Depression can be caused by many things,like lifes situations,clincial depression,all kinds of different..Maybe one day MR Cruise will have to eat those words..some day we all suffer from some form of depression,except of course Tom Cruise...Lol...Now if he would have said child molesters,or mass murders i might agree,but depression?I don't think so...

I vaguely remember Tom Cruise also going through a bout of depression. Being that I have never been through it first-hand, or know anyone that had been through it in real life, I do know one online friend who had bad experiences.

I know this friend who owned a get-paid-to site was getting depressed, & was put on anti-depressants. Keep in mind that no one knew about this, except for him & his immediate family. I had known him as a nice guy who always cared, & never got mad at someone who negatively criticized. He used to take the time to actually get to what that criticizer was going off about, & somehow, made it a positive experience for himself & the other person. It was strange in that this guy suddenly changed. On his site, it seemed that he was barking back at members, & was constantly getting uncharacteristically frustrated, & getting rid of different things on his site that people ended up complaining about. After a while, the site was no longer a paid-to site. While it wasn't all that great for me in that aspect, it did end up giving me a nice boost in my downline at the site I used to be an admin at. Eventually, the entire site was gone.

Jumping a couple of years later, the site came back with a new look & feel. Same owner though. We all seemed happy, & he had some story to tell. His wife took the kids & left & divorced him. He was optimistic that they were going to return, & he & she were going to get engaged, & hopefully, re-married. Then he explained what had happened. He was getting depressed, & didn't know why. He was prescribed anti-depressants, & trusting the doctor, took them as prescribed. The thing he did not know were the side effects & things like that. Even though he didn't give the name of the anti-depressant, he did explain that what they did was make him not feel depressed by making him not feel anything. That took away his sensitivity to his membership, friends, family ... He stopped taking them, & he seemed that he was no longer feeling depressed. I think he would probably agree with Tom Cruise.

From what I heard, depression is usually the result of some kind of chemical imbalance in the human system. Not sure what to make about that "possessed by the devil" line.

I must admit I had not heard this comment from Mr. Cruise, but then again, I rarely listen to what any of the stars have to say about anything, especially those involved in weird religions like Scientology. Having said that, I find his comments to be up to par with his religion. I had a client (who was a teenager) whose mentor belonged to a very large church that many people in the community felt was a little too cultish for their tastes. Anyway, this mentor told my client that he didn't need his antidepressant medication but needed to pray more. My client stopped his medication (without my knowledge or his physician's knowledge) and the client ended up in the hospital from a suicide attempt. I was so angry, I went up one side of the mentor and down the other side then chewed up the middle. He lost his spot as a mentor, but the damage had been done.

Now, my ex-boyfriend, on the otherhand, simply stated to me that if I just made up my mind to get over my own depression, I wouldn't need medication and therapy. Well, if I had known that, I wouldv'e done that a long time ago. As far as the possession by the Devil is concerned, I'm sure an exorcism would have been much cheaper than all the therapy and medications over the last 20 years or so. Sometimes, ignorance knows no bounds.

well i did not read that comment, this is the first time that i am hearing that.
i know that most people that have such an extreme comment on a subject, usually fear that problem.
maybe he suffers from depression and he feels weak, i do not know.
but yes it is an idiotic comment.
about the devil..i really do not know what went up in his head.
but about people that suffer from depression not needing antidepressants. well, it all depend what level of depression you have. there are alote of people that support this saying and use sports as an natural antidepressants.