I want to take you on a little trip down memory lane all the way back to 2005 when an eccentric

movie star gave an infamous interview on the today show.

Here's the problem. You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do. All it does is mask the problem.

Matt, and if you understand the history of it, it masks the problem. That's what it does.

That's all it does. You're not getting to the reason why there is no such thing as a chemical

imbalance. I'm saying that drugs aren't the answer. That these drugs are very dangerous. They're

mind-altering, anti-sacotic drugs. And there are ways of doing it without that so that we don't end

up in a brave new world. Yes, there are abuses. And yes, maybe they've gone too far in certain areas.

Maybe there are too many kids on Ritalin. Maybe electric shockers.

You're kids on Ritalin. I'm just saying. But aren't there examples where it works?

Matt, Matt. You don't even, you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking

about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with

these theories, Matt. Okay, that's what I've done. You and you go and you say, where's the medical test?

For that interview, Tom Cruise was turned into a national laughing stock. He nearly lost his

career and he was called crazy. Crazy, not like everyone in Hollywood is crazy, which they are.

But especially crazy. Crazy because he contradicted the medical establishment, which had been making

money hand over fist, slinging depression pills to treat an alleged chemical imbalance in the brain.

On the one side of the issue, you had a kooky, weirdo movie star. On the other side,

you had the entire public health authority. Guess who was right? A new meta-analysis that has just

come out looking at studies involving tens of thousands of people has concluded that the chemical

imbalance theory is completely bogus. Most depression pills are what is called selective

serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRIs, which are said to work by correcting abnormally low

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