How many times does someone with other health afflictions get asked, "have you taken your meds yet today?" Did you take your insulin, did you take your high blood pressure medication, did you take your estrogen, did you take your allergy medication, did you take your nitrogen, did you take your birthcontrol pill today.
I THINK NOT!

Ppl look for any any way to blame a bad mood, an energy boost, a sad day that sometimes makes us cry. We, too, are faced with everyday life situations, circumstances, heartache, heartbreak, stress, financial issues just like every other human being on the face of the planet. But when we emotionally respond to those things it always comes down to "did you take your meds".

My response, appartently there more shallow and ignorant than I thought, so get over yourselves and allow us to be the human beings that you too experience in your everyday life.

that usually shuts 'em up and teaches them a lesson about how life can be just as difficult sometimes for EVERYONE.

Granted, I try to be a little more tactful than that because they'll only turn that around to be my illness too.

I realize that more and more people are becoming more aware of bp and the havoc it wreaks in our lives and the lives of those arouond us. But then butt heads (putting it mildly) like Tom Cruise come out publically state that there's no such thing as chemical imblances and that it's all in our heads and that therapy only masks the real issues. The damage he has done to the mental health community, the disorder community has been a major set-back for those of us who have fought so hard to create an understanding on a scientific and clinical level. I bet that if they made a grow taller pill, he'd be first in line.
For someone who was so private for so long to come out like this makes me think he's get a chemical imbalance of his own.

I'm not going to diss Scientology. If that's what works for those ppl...the more power to them. But to think that they have the answer to every human problem is arrogant, abrasive and demeaning to the rest of society. He claims to be an expert in "psychology", but he shed absolutely no evidence of this "extensive and origin" of every mental health disorder known to man.

While I've never been a Tom Cruise fan, this only affirms that this choice of mine is right on the money.

anyway, I hope I haven't gone too far in expressing my opinions, but I feel quite strongly about this and I've only expressed my personal opinions of his arrogance and superiority complex.

I can only hope that the medical community will come forward and present the truth of this matter. Meds have saved my life, my quality of life and my ability to function productivley in society. My meds have been my life preserver when I was circling the drain into the sewage of bp.

Please fell free to express your views without offending or demeaning anyone else here. However, this is a subjuct I wish to discuss further. so let it rip my friends.
TgrsPurr, xo