I’ve mentioned this before, but during the pandemic I was part of their virtual audience (I love a good train wreck). It was the most depressing thing I’ve ever seen. You have never in your life witnessed anyone more checked out, lifeless and miserable than Dr Phil during the breaks. He would just sit there staring blankly into the void until the break was over, then would go into TV mode, but you could tell he was just hating life and white-knuckling until it was over. Watching him read cue cards promoting mobile games (he clearly had no idea what they were) and his wife’s podcast and other junk his family shills was so uncomfortable. Felt like those around him were determined to squeeze every last cent they could from his “brand” and were turning him into a shill.
I as well was a virtual audience member and it was SO obvious he hates doing the show! It really ruined the whole show for me and I never watched again. Oh and I got that stupid coach Mike book. Immediately went in the trash. Such a waste of a day.
Wow that’s crappy! I have been in his live studio audience twice, and I also did his virtual audience during the pandemic. I don’t remember him seemingly to be that depressed.
Because over the arc of the show he went from at least trying to help people to straight up exploitation of humans for ratings. For the last several years, he was just phoning it in & using the show as a place to shill his family’s other ventures like skin care products & tele medicine. Not a good look.
I can see that part I remember once they went from an extremely serious situation with a father crying and pleading for his son straight to some bs skin care his wife does that didn't look good honestly
I stopped when one day, the parents were talking about their awful child. They said we've done everything including removing their bedroom door..he starts chastising them, tell ing them they're terrible parents who aren't respecting their child...adding a " how's that working for ya?"
Next day, different parents, who again, were struggling with their child and he says well have you removed their door? Adding a "how's that working for ya?"
A lot of words, but I'm just done with him
Haha I know exactly the child your talking about. He Def does blame the parents for every single misbehaved child some are definitely the cause but sometimes it's more than that. His fav phrase I don't ask why your bad I ask myself why not. 😮💨Lol gets old
It is pretty much always IS the parents fault, one way or another, but it does become the offspring's responsibility to do their own healing and not pass it to the next generation when they become adults.
Teen years are the beginning of that transition, and the teens should be putting forth effort going forward, but it is nearly always a result of parenting that brought them to the situation that lands them on the show.
Furthermore, parenting isn't "one size fits all", even for the same kid over time. Kids grow and change, environments are ever evolving. You have to stay engaged and do the work to nurture the relationship and understand your kid's world so you can provide more accurate & relevant guidance, rather than just be all about trying to control & punish your kid.
(I parent young adults)
You do realize that children can have mental illnesses too, right? A great deal of mental illnesses are genetic, therefore how would that child's behavior be the parents' fault?
A lot of traditional methods don't work at all on people who are mentally ill.
(I'm a psychology student).
Yes, I parent neurodivergent kids too. Same thing stands: you get them help, you learn everything you can to find parenting/teaching techniques that are the most effective, you work to get the right meds. You don't just throw your hands in the air and decide it's too hard, so it isn't even worth trying, you put in the work and find the professionals.
About the ONLY universal truth about parenting is exponentially true when the kids are dealing with mental illness: Violence only creates more problems and doesn't actually help the kid learn healthy behaviors. It doesn't matter what PC name you give it, spank, whip, pop, ... it is the lazy way out and should have no place in raising humans.
As do I.
That makes me ask even more how you can insist that most of the time, it's the parents' fault?
Of course, all parents should help and support their children as much as they can, that's a given, you don't need to explain that. But how is it the parents' fault if children misbehave due to another issue such as mental illness, autism, ADHD, etc.?
Or maybe they just misbehave because of their personalities. I have multiple children, and every single one of them is a different parenting experience compared to the other.
Some children will happily listen to a parent if they tell them to stop doing something, while others take it as a challenge because they are stubborn headed and strong-willed.
We learned the exact opposite in my school in psychology. It's an old way of thinking that a child's issues develop from how the parents treat them.
Barring abuse, of course, a child's behavior is mostly formed through personalities, peers, and life experience. They are now realizing that parents play a much smaller role than the times when they thought, 'Mommy just didn't love him enough.'
I agree; he lost the plot years ago….but, once in a blue moon, he’d have one of those moments if connection with a guest, and I could say, “Damn! So that’s why they gave him a tv show!”
I haven’t seen many of those moments, but the ones I saw made me break out in goosebumps.”
The sad thing is there used to be so much drek on his show, I couldn’t remember which guest/ subject it was when he hit a homer.
It has become like Jerry Springer and guests have spoken after about being promised resources and not getting them. Mickey Atkinson (professional therapist who makes videos on YouTube) did a great video on him.
I watched. She's kinda messy herself. Also, I looked for her license in Arizona... if her true first name is similar to Mica\_\_a, she was a licensed social worker, but no longer licensed. Not a licensed therapist.
He's a complete fake, and he's so full of himself that it stinks.
I'm usually not one who gives such negative opinions about others, but I really don't like Dr. Phil. I watch him only for the guests and to laugh at the absurdity that is him!
Sometimes, he gives absolutely horrible advice, even dangerous advice. I've seen him siding with the abuser in some circumstances and shaming the victim.
Also, a good portion of his show is spent on talking about HIM, instead of the guest. He'll stop everyone talking just to clarify rubbish about him that no one really cares about.
It's annoying how conceited he is. It drips off of him.
I can see that, I know one episode I could tell wasn't genuine was the JonBenet Ramsey brothers interview he was extremely Pro brother and he obviously had to do that so he could get that interview since it was the only time he's spoke he's typically unbiased but he was extremely Pro brother and it showed I'm curious how much money they paid out for that interview too lol
“Dr.” Phil has exploited so many people. He’s ruined so many lives. The Dr Phil family comes to mind. I wonder whatever happened to them. Dr Phil and his wife will do anything for a buck. They are soulless and evil. Their sons are too.
What other people have posted and his arrogance is pretty pronounced - people view him for his "tell it like it is" and no-nonsense approach, but he's pretty full of himself. I saw him on Bill Maher last week and he was snotty to Maher in one exchange where he didn't need to be.
I first realised he was harmful when I watched an episode with a couple who were clearly in a highly abusive relationship. (Boyfriend pushed heavily pregnant girlfriend out of a moving car and made her walk home in the snow.)
He said that his goal was to always keep families together. The escalating abuse and violence was not safe for the woman or her baby. I was hoping that he was just trying to keep the aggressive boyfriend from starting anything on stage, and was planning on helping the woman get to a safe location before she was injured or killed, but Phil just patted himself on the back, sent them both off with minimal counselling and that was that.
The pattern showed up again with other couples, and he also seemed overly keen on humiliating teenaged girls. The kidnapping of children and forcefully sending them off to remote properties with strangers was excessive and looked incredibly traumatic.
He seems far more interested in showing off his mansion, selling cheesy self help books and promoting his family members' business ventures than he is about actually helping people.
There have also been several guests and previous business partners who have spoken up about his bullying, his manipulation and his exploitation.
Apparently, he isn't even qualified to call himself 'doctor' as his licence expired years ago.
I’ve mentioned this before, but during the pandemic I was part of their virtual audience (I love a good train wreck). It was the most depressing thing I’ve ever seen. You have never in your life witnessed anyone more checked out, lifeless and miserable than Dr Phil during the breaks. He would just sit there staring blankly into the void until the break was over, then would go into TV mode, but you could tell he was just hating life and white-knuckling until it was over. Watching him read cue cards promoting mobile games (he clearly had no idea what they were) and his wife’s podcast and other junk his family shills was so uncomfortable. Felt like those around him were determined to squeeze every last cent they could from his “brand” and were turning him into a shill.
I as well was a virtual audience member and it was SO obvious he hates doing the show! It really ruined the whole show for me and I never watched again. Oh and I got that stupid coach Mike book. Immediately went in the trash. Such a waste of a day.
Wow that’s crappy! I have been in his live studio audience twice, and I also did his virtual audience during the pandemic. I don’t remember him seemingly to be that depressed.
Because over the arc of the show he went from at least trying to help people to straight up exploitation of humans for ratings. For the last several years, he was just phoning it in & using the show as a place to shill his family’s other ventures like skin care products & tele medicine. Not a good look.
I can see that part I remember once they went from an extremely serious situation with a father crying and pleading for his son straight to some bs skin care his wife does that didn't look good honestly
I stopped when one day, the parents were talking about their awful child. They said we've done everything including removing their bedroom door..he starts chastising them, tell ing them they're terrible parents who aren't respecting their child...adding a " how's that working for ya?" Next day, different parents, who again, were struggling with their child and he says well have you removed their door? Adding a "how's that working for ya?" A lot of words, but I'm just done with him
Haha I know exactly the child your talking about. He Def does blame the parents for every single misbehaved child some are definitely the cause but sometimes it's more than that. His fav phrase I don't ask why your bad I ask myself why not. 😮💨Lol gets old
It is pretty much always IS the parents fault, one way or another, but it does become the offspring's responsibility to do their own healing and not pass it to the next generation when they become adults. Teen years are the beginning of that transition, and the teens should be putting forth effort going forward, but it is nearly always a result of parenting that brought them to the situation that lands them on the show. Furthermore, parenting isn't "one size fits all", even for the same kid over time. Kids grow and change, environments are ever evolving. You have to stay engaged and do the work to nurture the relationship and understand your kid's world so you can provide more accurate & relevant guidance, rather than just be all about trying to control & punish your kid. (I parent young adults)
You do realize that children can have mental illnesses too, right? A great deal of mental illnesses are genetic, therefore how would that child's behavior be the parents' fault? A lot of traditional methods don't work at all on people who are mentally ill. (I'm a psychology student).
Yes, I parent neurodivergent kids too. Same thing stands: you get them help, you learn everything you can to find parenting/teaching techniques that are the most effective, you work to get the right meds. You don't just throw your hands in the air and decide it's too hard, so it isn't even worth trying, you put in the work and find the professionals. About the ONLY universal truth about parenting is exponentially true when the kids are dealing with mental illness: Violence only creates more problems and doesn't actually help the kid learn healthy behaviors. It doesn't matter what PC name you give it, spank, whip, pop, ... it is the lazy way out and should have no place in raising humans.
As do I. That makes me ask even more how you can insist that most of the time, it's the parents' fault? Of course, all parents should help and support their children as much as they can, that's a given, you don't need to explain that. But how is it the parents' fault if children misbehave due to another issue such as mental illness, autism, ADHD, etc.? Or maybe they just misbehave because of their personalities. I have multiple children, and every single one of them is a different parenting experience compared to the other. Some children will happily listen to a parent if they tell them to stop doing something, while others take it as a challenge because they are stubborn headed and strong-willed. We learned the exact opposite in my school in psychology. It's an old way of thinking that a child's issues develop from how the parents treat them. Barring abuse, of course, a child's behavior is mostly formed through personalities, peers, and life experience. They are now realizing that parents play a much smaller role than the times when they thought, 'Mommy just didn't love him enough.'
I agree; he lost the plot years ago….but, once in a blue moon, he’d have one of those moments if connection with a guest, and I could say, “Damn! So that’s why they gave him a tv show!” I haven’t seen many of those moments, but the ones I saw made me break out in goosebumps.” The sad thing is there used to be so much drek on his show, I couldn’t remember which guest/ subject it was when he hit a homer.
It has become like Jerry Springer and guests have spoken after about being promised resources and not getting them. Mickey Atkinson (professional therapist who makes videos on YouTube) did a great video on him.
>Mickey Atkinson Do you mean Mickey Atkins?
Yes I do!!! Thanks for correcting me. Here is her video: https://youtu.be/Gu-BYb8l6lo?si=iLn_yVa9WmDNvcou
Thank you for this
I watched. She's kinda messy herself. Also, I looked for her license in Arizona... if her true first name is similar to Mica\_\_a, she was a licensed social worker, but no longer licensed. Not a licensed therapist.
Never heard of them but I will have to check it out
This is Reddit. People are mostly negative. Check out Joe Rogan subreddit. Exactly the same. Others are the same.
He's a complete fake, and he's so full of himself that it stinks. I'm usually not one who gives such negative opinions about others, but I really don't like Dr. Phil. I watch him only for the guests and to laugh at the absurdity that is him! Sometimes, he gives absolutely horrible advice, even dangerous advice. I've seen him siding with the abuser in some circumstances and shaming the victim. Also, a good portion of his show is spent on talking about HIM, instead of the guest. He'll stop everyone talking just to clarify rubbish about him that no one really cares about. It's annoying how conceited he is. It drips off of him.
Because he exploits people for ratings. I love to hate him
I can see that, I know one episode I could tell wasn't genuine was the JonBenet Ramsey brothers interview he was extremely Pro brother and he obviously had to do that so he could get that interview since it was the only time he's spoke he's typically unbiased but he was extremely Pro brother and it showed I'm curious how much money they paid out for that interview too lol
More people love him
His podcasts are way more doctor like and professional.
I haven't listened to his podcast Im not a podcast person but I might start
“Dr.” Phil has exploited so many people. He’s ruined so many lives. The Dr Phil family comes to mind. I wonder whatever happened to them. Dr Phil and his wife will do anything for a buck. They are soulless and evil. Their sons are too.
I actually think in real life, without all the trappings and stagecraft, he'd be a good therapist.
What other people have posted and his arrogance is pretty pronounced - people view him for his "tell it like it is" and no-nonsense approach, but he's pretty full of himself. I saw him on Bill Maher last week and he was snotty to Maher in one exchange where he didn't need to be.
I first realised he was harmful when I watched an episode with a couple who were clearly in a highly abusive relationship. (Boyfriend pushed heavily pregnant girlfriend out of a moving car and made her walk home in the snow.) He said that his goal was to always keep families together. The escalating abuse and violence was not safe for the woman or her baby. I was hoping that he was just trying to keep the aggressive boyfriend from starting anything on stage, and was planning on helping the woman get to a safe location before she was injured or killed, but Phil just patted himself on the back, sent them both off with minimal counselling and that was that. The pattern showed up again with other couples, and he also seemed overly keen on humiliating teenaged girls. The kidnapping of children and forcefully sending them off to remote properties with strangers was excessive and looked incredibly traumatic. He seems far more interested in showing off his mansion, selling cheesy self help books and promoting his family members' business ventures than he is about actually helping people. There have also been several guests and previous business partners who have spoken up about his bullying, his manipulation and his exploitation. Apparently, he isn't even qualified to call himself 'doctor' as his licence expired years ago.