Tom Cruise is RIGHT, well kinda!!!

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 12:07am

I am not a fan of Mr Cruise, but some of the things he said about drugs are right. I worked at USC Medical Center Mental Hospital a few years back and the drug use there is unbelievable. They have 5 year old children on pills. The government will ban Pot, but the legal drug use in this country is bad. They even have pills to keep your dick hard for four hours. My ex boyfriend just smoked a joint and his penis was hard for hours. I think meditation and exercise are wonderful for mental health. I think alot of people are too lazy to workout and meditate. I do think that the last resort should be legal drugs after everything else fails.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 12:30am

I'm curious as to what your position was at USC Medical Center that allowed you to draw the conclusion that the treatments were inappropriate. Doctor? Nurse? Social worker? Please elaborate.

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 12:32am

"They even have pills to keep your dick hard for four hours. My ex boyfriend just smoked a joint and his penis was hard for hours."

Not only is that inappropriate and too much information, but what the hell does that have to do with anything? It certainly doesn't back your arguement.

[ljay889]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 12:33am

I love how we have to know about ex boyfriends penis..

[LariTheLoud]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 12:33am

Although I *DO* agree that many psychiatrists tend to hand out pills too readily (mostly to teenagers going through normal teen angst), genuine mental illnesses require medication to rectify. It IS a chemical imbalance in the brain--and, hey, whaddya know, I'm a psych student. My grandmother was severely bipolar in her lifetime, and if she wasn't on meds, she was attempting suicide during her down times.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 12:47am

I also enjoyed the duplicity of the legal drugs are bad/pot is good theme in Kristie's post.

[outamydoodle]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:01am

tom cruise need to shup up and not tell other people how to live their lives when he can't even come out of the closet! love, carla

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:15am

Oh Lord, Pot worked for my boyfriend, that's all. He didn't have to take a pill. All I trying to say that SOMETIMES just taking a pill isn't always the answer. At USC, I was in charge of the Nurse's business and became very close to alot of them. I wanted to watch "Shock Treatments" so they let me. I had just seen Cuckoo's Nest and I had to see if the patients acted the way it was shown in the movie. I learned so much about mental illness and I am very grateful. The nurses told my that exercise is the best medicine. At night they would have patients in the yard walking, looking like zombies. so sad

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:19am

Can someone smell a deleted post and/or account?

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:23am

Jesus Christ, Kristie... being "in charge of the nurse's business" (I assume that's private duty and agency nurses) and hanging with the nurses while they bitch over dinner hardly qualifies you to assess the appropriateness of medical treatment.

And while were talking about those nurses, I certainly hope the patient signed a consent giving you permission to be there for a shock treatment. It's very nice that you were interested, but without the patient's consent, you and your friends violated his rights a dozen different ways. Which would be very, very not cool.

I wish if people want to be doctors they would go to medical school. And if they want to be nurses, they would go to freakin' nursing school.

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:33am

Kristie, I have some advice for you:

Stay away from these boards.
OR
Think twice before you make another post.

This is disgusting. Just plain disgusting.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:33am

But Iflit, she SAID "I learned so much about mental illness and I am very grateful."

So, it's all good.

PS The term is Electro Convulsive Therapy, Kristie. Unless of course you watched this in the 1950s.

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:34am

Darling, You can't imagine what they told me. I could write a book.....Yes, at that time I wanted to become a nurse. I have worked in three hospitals in my life. Lots of stuff goes on there. Hospital work is hard. Alot of my friends at the Hospital are dead.....This took place in the eighties when I was going to school. Sorry if I upset anyone!!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:36am

This sounds like the plot of a Stephen King miniseries. It's not something that happened at all, is it Kirstie?

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:44am

I think anyone who has worked in a Hospital will back me. That is why I left. I don't understand why everyone is so mad. All I wanted to state is that pills are not always the answer. Maybe I stated it wrong.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:45am

Pills are not always the answer, but Tom Cruise is saying that they're never the answer, or even part of the answer.

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:49am

I did say the Tom is right, kinda. If pills help fine, but I think they should be the last resort

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:50am

You, like Tom, don't know what you're talking about.

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:52am

Well, Sorry, I going to bed now. Good Night

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:56am

You go, girl. Seriously. You go.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 2:01am

"I think anyone who has worked in a Hospital will back me."

Well, Kristie. You would be oh-so-wrong. I have worked in hospitals since the late seventies. And that would be as an RN. And you are a very common "type" that irritates the **** out of me and many, many others involved in healthcare. Working in a hospital doesn't make you educated as a medical professional. Passing off your twenty years in the past "experience" as some kind of authority for the current state of psychiatric care in this country has you standing on pretty shaky ground. You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but to try to do so by giving the impression that you were "in the know" (which would imply being privy to case histories, medical treatment plans, and measurable outcomes) is just plain sleazy.

Updated On: 6/25/05 at 02:01 AM

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:27am

Kristie,

please get away from the computer and tell Nursie to up your dosage, as your meds are no longer working, hon. You should not be operating any electronic machinery right now

And by the way, your boyfriend didn't need to smoke anything when he was with me.......

Updated On: 6/25/05 at 11:27 AM

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:27am

Bravo, iflit, well said!!!!!

[jaded_october]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:39pm

"I think meditation and exercise are wonderful for mental health."

thats true, but sometimes exercising and meditation don't help people with chemical imbalances. trust me, i would know.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:50pm

SOMETIMES? I would wager it never helps.