Tom Cruise is a mouthpiece for an organized crime outfit that wants to promote the idea that the answer to all mental illness involves forking over all your money to said organization, and then devoting your life to sucking other people into it. Psychoactive pharmaceuticals and the doctors who prescribe them are competition, which said organization will not hesitate to use ruthless measures to try to stamp out, regardless of whether or not the competition is right.
The issue of rapidly growing use of psychoactive pharmaceuticals is well worth scientific and intellectual examination, but not from a conspiracy theory point of view. A major factor IMO, which has received little serious attention, is that relatively low physical activity levels are associated with both depression and ADD -- the conditions most widely medicated. Humans evolved, like most mammals, to spend many hours every day in energetic physical activity. But in the modern, knowledge-based economy, manual labor is at the bottom of the economic ladder, with most worthwhile jobs involving endless hours at a desk, and many years of educational preparation done at a desk, and that's not going to change. It may turn out that routine use of psychoactive pharmaceuticals IS the best answer to this dilemma (though hopefully, newer and better ones will be developed to replaced the current favorites). Anyone who isn't open to that possibility is, like Tom Cruise, irrationally attached to a belief system that has nothing to do with reality.
Holy sh!t! We agree! I've battled bouts of depression since single-digit childhood. In my late teens I had a wonderful psychoanalyst who finally had the sense to say "You don't need me--you need exercise." He was totally right. Does exercise completely do away with my depression? No--it makes it manageable, which is all that drugs do, and exercise has much better side effects.
I don't know if I'd lump the ongoing Shields/Cruise debate in here, however. From all that I've read, what she went through was treading into post-partum psychosis territory, not the much more common ppd that the bulk of moms deal with. Moms with post-partum psychosis--IIRC, roughly 1-3% of moms at best--should, at the very least, be seeing a medical doctor for treatment of their "circumstance" (for lack of a better word), at least twice a week, if possible. Andrea Yates is a good lesson about what's at stake. It is a temporary situation. Hormone levels nearly always return to normal naturally, often within weeks of delivery or weeks of weaning from the breast.
BTW--in my most humble opinion, Tom Cruise is a butt wipe.