Subject: Michael Vick
I watched your show from Philly and would like to make a comment as well as ask a question. Question: How did Mr. Vick get out in 18 months instead of his full term of 23 months? Isn’t odd that if he would have served the entire 23 months he probably would have missed the football season this year!! Comment: Approximately 7 years ago I work for the Govt in public housing. I committed a crime of wrongful use of funds. I turned in fraudulent lunch slips in the amount of approximately $3000.00 over 5 years. I admitted to the crime and knew I had a gambling problem. Outside of the Govt this penalty would be a misdemeanor,however, because I worked for the Govt it was a felony (over 1000.00).
Because of that felony conviction I have not been able to find work for 7 years. I have sent out thousands of resume and been honest about the conviction. As soon as that is known I am turned down. Luckily I have a gift from God (My Wife) that has stuck by me and support me both mentally and financially. We are really struggling. Then I see where Vick who is a convicted felon gets hired by the Eagles and gets a huge salary. Its his fault he is in debt. I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’s a shame there is two sets of standards in this country, one for the rich and one for the poor.. I guess after watching yhour show I just had to vent. (Sorry)

Ed

Dear Dr. Phil, I just watched your NY show that you did the other day. When I heard what your worst fear was I knew I just had to contact you. I have lived your worst nightmare. For four years we struggled to keep our Chris alive, and he left this earth when he died in my arms in 2001. He was
14. He was kind, clever, generous, and loving. We talked about absolutley everything and we got to say those same words I’ve heard you say to your kids. “I’m so happy that out of all of the kids in the whole world, I got to have you as my son!”

Chris was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 10, and I think he lived a lifetime before his passing at 14. Wow, did I relate to the daughter missing her mom at her wedding! It’s been 8 years for us too. A lot has happened in those eight years. Not all of it bad. Out of our tragedy has sprung new hope and purpose.

In 2007 my first book “Christopher’s Journey” was published. I give all the money I make away to help kids with cancer. This month I’m doing a book event for 22 month-old Victoria who has retnoblastoma. And like you said about that bride’s mom-the same is true for me–I am absolutely certain that Chris is there. That is how I celebrate his life, and his amazing spirit that awaits our reunion. It would be dream of mine to have you read our story!! Please see http://www.christophersjourney.com.

This summer I signed a contract for my second book. It is a book for children with cancer. When our Chris was ten and newly diagnosed there was no literature out their at his level. I am so thrilled to be working with an editor creating a character who survives and carries a message of hope to the tens of thousands of children who are diagnosed with cancer each year.

How about a show about families like ours who have lived your worst nightmare? I be you’ll find many other stories like ours–tories of spiritual redemption. Maribeth Ditmars

I, TOO, AM INCENSED AT MICHEAL VICKS BEING LET OUT OF PRISON EARLY AND ALLOWED TO ACCEPT A LUCRATIVE JOB PLAYING FOOTBALL AGAIN! HE IS NOT THE KIND OF PERSON WHO SHOULD REPRESENT AN ALL-AMERICAN PASTIME. HIS BRUTE MENTALITY, DEMONSTRATED THRU HIS HEINOUS TREATMENT AND KILLING OF ANIMALS, SHOULD NEVER AGAIN ALLOW HIM TO PLAY FOOTBALL! HE DESERVED TWICE THE SENTENCE HE GOT WITH THAT CAVEAT ATTACHED!

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i understand the mother was a victom to,but why did she marry this guy and stay with him for 30 years. she was abused by him at 8 years old. my ? is why did she marry him after all this.my father abused me also, i went out to get help.of course no one beleived me. nothing was done at that time.years later he raped my neice. and then he was convicted for rape. he got 409 years.

I feel for the Wesson children. What a terrible thing to happen to those kids and the wife. They didn’t have a chance. I especially feel for the boy who apologized to his sister because he thought he should have done something to help. He could do nothing except get killed himself – he was just a boy. The sister did not acknowledge the apology.
i turn the show off when that spoiled brat is on. The one who had the baby and is hanging out with the loser dad and puts her mother down and feels sorry for herself.

Dr.Phil I am a past drug user and have a large criminal history(non-violent)and I am going for visitation,to gain trust,then partual custody however she’s throwing lawyers at me. I’ve been totally out of trouble since the beginning of 04.What or how should I approach this?I’m only a father that has messed up now wanting to share my life with him.We even bought a house together trying to reconcile. I really want to be a major part of his life thanks PLEASE RESPOND

I have been watching your account of a boy addicted to oxy cotin. My neice was exactly this boy a while ago. She prayed to God, “Whatever it takes”. A week to the day, she was arrested for dealing drugs. She had taken up with a horrible guy who used beautiful young women to help in HIS addiction. She spent a long while in jail. My sister, A Christian, has been diligent in working to keep her daughter clean. She ended up putting her in Teen Challenge. She is so whole and has given herself to the Lord and has been baptized and is happy beyond belief. She will stay there for a year. would you check into TeenChallenge? It is a great place. I think they have the answer.

I AM HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MY FIANCEE AS OF 01/19/2010 HE SAID WE ARE NOT BE BE TOGETHER ANY MORE, ALTHOUGH WE CAN STILL TALK. I AM DESTROIED AND DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO SAY OR DO WE WERE SUPPOSE TO GET MARRIED ON DEC. 11,2010 AND HE HAS CHANGED HIS MIND OUT OF LEFT FIELD. THIS IS NOT LIKE HIM, AND HIS OWN MOTHER THINKS THAT HE HAD HELP MAKING THIS DECISION. WE HAVE ANOTHER COUPLE THAT COMES TO THE HOUSE AND THEY PLAY GAMES ALL DAY ON THE XBOX 360. HE ALSO WORKS 3RD SHIFT AT LEAST 5 DAYS A WEEK. I KNOW IN HIS VOICE THAT HE JUST IS NOT SURE ABOUT THE DECISION HE HAS MADE I AM LOST, BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO SAY TO HIS…WHAT IS ONE SUPPOSE TO DO HOW CAN I REJUVENATE WHAT WE HAVE.

I am watching this day’s show. 1/28/10 and I would like to voice a solution for these twins. Shelly should let a different couple adopt these children and Amy and Scott can do another adoption.

I personally Shelly is wrong.

Thank you

Constance

Dear Dr Phil

I watch today the Oprah show (1.2.2010) it was with Chirstie the girl who used to be in Cheers, and all she was talking about was her weight the fact that she lost heaps of weight when she was the spokes person for Jenny Craig and then put most of it back on. Oprah said now she is more comfortable with her weight and told Christie not to worry about the amount you weigh and just to be healthly, dont you think that at 50 both these women are beautiful and succefull and both need the be grateful for all that they have done and not be so shallow, I think now Oprah gets this – but Christie does not. Can you please talk to them – we dont care that they are alittle over weight – they are beautiful women and are very talented in their own right. Who cares about being alittle over weight.

Hi Dr.Phil do you help family that need it

Dear Dr. Phil,

I have seen your show and am hoping for advise or help. My sister is going through a tough time and I am miles away. She has been to jail a few time in the last few weeks. She has tried to commit suicide once in the last week and has done it before. She called me and I have tried to get her to go get help. She thinks that things are all someone elses fault but she has brought a lot on herself. My Mom is not fully understanding her state and I think she could be helping it along. Please, I plead, I am in the military and with a family of my own, I can’t pick up and run to her. She needs help and I don’t know what to do. Her doctors don’t see what my family and I see. She is still thinking what she is doing is ok and she should be dead too.

Have a good neighbor of many years, now has a boyfriend who lives not far away…he was driving his motorcycle down my sidewalk leaving a long black tire mark, after asking him twice not to do it, I had to resort to asking my neighbor to tell her boyfriend not to do it. He came to my door, all red in the face and spoke to me like I was something he found on the bottom of his shoe. Now he has resorted to passing a rumor through the neighborhood that I have accused someone of having sex with her lawn man….and out walking my dog last night saw him try and pull his truck in on the wrong side of the road to go past my property but he pulled away real fast when he saw me..what are we in the 4th grade here…..what should I do?

Ive been following Amy and Scott’s story – the childless couple whose babies were withheld from them by their surrogate due to her (Amy) having mental problems. I think the whole situation cruel. I also find Shelley arrogant in pointing fingers at a condition that Amy is getting treatment for. Besides, who says that Shelley herself might not have mental or emtional problems? Just because she hasnt been tested psychologically – it doesnt mean to say that she has no emotional or mental problems.

Dr.Phil, I don’t know that you will ever see this message, but I am in dire need of help. I am a 58y/old woman who is disgusted with her fat body. I’ve been this way for about 10 years now, and I don’t think I can stand to be like this much longer. I am a grandmother of 2 and 1 on the way and I don’t want my grand children to be embarrassed because of my weight. I’m an RN and know how you should properly lose weight, but I just can’t seem to get the incentive or motivation like I use to. Is there any advice you can give to me to save face with my children and grandchildren?

Hello Dr. Phil:

I’ve been an avid follower of your programming for years now, and I thought it was REAL. But like the
Wrestling, it is not real. I am so sorry about this because I’ve written you several times over the
years about different problems that I see people facing and need help. I have never even gotten a response. I know of a very serious child abuse case that has been going on now for the last almost two years. No one is either taking
us seriously or the people involved are so well connected that they cannot be touched. I’m not sure
which is case. I do understand that the judge in charge is a millionaire and her husband is much more.
I would not like to say in this case either that the attorneys involved have been bought or silenced.
However, I do know that something is not “right” as they say “something smells in Denmark”.

If you know of someone who is not terrified of “Power” can you point them to me so that I can get
help for this poor child.

Hey Dr Phil! I love you and your show! You have a beautiful wife and family. Congrates on being a new grandpa!

Dr.Phil

Dr. Phil,

Dr. Phil,
I don’t know if you will read this, but I watch your show everyday! Although I do indeed admire you tremendesly, the love that you and your wife show is amazing.I get goosebumps every time I see you two together! I am 39 years old and have been living with MS(Multiple Sclerosis) for 22 yrs. Recently things have been getting so tough that it seems imbearable. I was a very strong,confident,independent women and now I feel helpless. My relationship of 13 yrs is a mess, my son(18)has been in and out of drug rehab, and my daughter because my (MS)progressed alot after her birth is missing out on so much. I lost my scholarship to Longwood University due to this disease, and I still picked myself up and graduated from a community college only to be now living in a house that is very tiny, lots of problems, barely making bills due to this disease, I now feel like it is finally getting the best of me. I have extreme fatigue, therefore recently I discovered that if you snort oxycodone, or eat Roxicodone, it will give me a burst of energy. For once in a very long time I feel alive again. I can play outside with my daughter, even though I have to sit on the scooter, I can play a few extra minutes on the WII. I really need your help. I never knew I would end up so poor, lonely, and hiding in the closet to snort a pill. I feel like my fiance’(mind you of 13yrs)treats me terrible now and if I am a bother. I do not have the confidence anymore to pick up and leave. I left my first husband (a police officer and the father of my son) because of extreme mental/physical abuse and built another beautiful life for myself and now I feel like I don’t have the strength nor means to do it again. I do not drive and I feel like no one wants a handicap person with two kids. Please help me to not give up!! I do not need a big house or lots of money, I just want for me and my kids to be happy. Like I said, I almost cry every day when I watch you grab the hand of your wife and walk off the stage. The love and happiness of you two is amazing. Don’t let me give up. Maybe I will be able to afford some of the new medicines out there some day, you see beleive it out not but I make to much on
Social Secrity to get Medicaid or foodstamps, while others that can work sit on there butts and get way more benifits than I, but I refuse to lie to the government. Once again Help!!

Thanks again,
Holli

Dr. Phil, Sorry for the first couple of times, I am new at all this computer stuff, Just got Internet as a Christmas present to myself.

Thanks,
Holli

Hi Dr.Phil my name is Brittany I am 21 with a child and happily married but there is something that is a burden on our marriage and my life…I was watching today’s show and it was about adult confronting their parents well i don’t want to be on your show but i would like to tell you my story and maybe hear your opinion.when I was 6 I was molested by a cousin and my mother and grandmother just had him sent to Florida to live with his mother well when I was 9 my grandpa molested me and nothing has ever been done about it my mother just had nothing to do with him and we did tell the police and i remember talking to the police and a lady but then my mother told me they didn’t want to send him to prison cause he could be hurt…well this bothers me i want him to be punished and i want him to own up to it my mother has always treated me like a friend or an enemy we have never got along she use to hit me when i was a baby and all threw my child hood as well as my step father and now my mother is still taking my grandma’s side and my grandma still gets money from my grandpa and she is remarried so i wounder if it is hush hush money.my grandma has told me to get over it and just move on it happens all the time to people.and i am hurt Dr.Phil I hate these women and have nothing to do with them and they are not allowed to see my child or me I just don’t understand how my grandma gets money from him still and how they can just ignore it and not feel bad and always treat me like crap i got a loan from my grandma’s new husband well we were making our payments then we were going to be late on a payment so we gave them a gun to hold on to as collateral and then we went to pay the last amount and they took my car and kept my husbands gun.about 6 months ago i was camping with my mother trying to get along after not speaking for a long time and she got drunk like always and we ended up getting in a fight and so i had to get a protection order on my mother…I am just so sick of them and the man that did it denying it and ignoring it and i have never heard I am sorry or anything.and im sick of bad money hungry,lieing people always getting what they want.thank you for listening Dr.phil i just wanted to share my story.

I just watched your show about the 20yr old girl who is an addict and you sent her to Cottonwood Tuscon for recovery. I immediately went to the website to look at it (my 22yr old daughter is a heron addict, she keeps trying to stop on her own and she can not). She’s been to rehabs 2 times and sober living 2 times. Cottonwood is so expensive but it is the kind of place she needs,long term care, and I’m out of money, what do I do now? The free state run facilities do not have doctors, and she sure needs one, she suffers from addiction, depression, rage and doesn’t care about herself. Can you help me help her?

Dr Phill, i need your help iam lonely have a dronk husband every day and no freinds, my life seems to be a mess. i cry every day, I grow up in a mess up child hood. Iam fat and ugly, i have no schooling behine me. I dont no what to do any more i have very little feelings left for my husband. iam poor and live in a trailor, and thats been most of my life. I feel lost and alone, there is so much i can tell you but i cant do it all in one letter, I watch you all the time on tv and i no theres story worst then mine, and better then mine. Iam not a grate speller, but i can get buy. What do i do next, waiting for my life to end iam hafe way there now. Dr Phill what can i do to feel better about my self, you no when you where growing up i moved fourty times in 29 years. Will more they that really, can you beleave all of your life you lived in a trailor. My trailor is falling a part no money to fix it,iam on disabilty, SSI. I live every day just to cry and feel theres not much left in my heart. when you grow up in a family of non stop drinkers you seem to marry one, Dr Phill i dont drink or smoke or do drugs any more i stop that twenty some thing years ago, all of it. But i dont feel any better with my life. what do i do now ! ? I dont no if you can help me, dont have any money to go get help, so iam on my own. Ready to think whats next. I no its a sad world we live in but i dont seem to help it at all. Please help me figure it out ? joni

Please get back to me ! i cry for help.

Hello Dr.Phil; I love your show. I am begging you to please help my daughter. she was diagnosted with paranoid schizophrenia in 1995. she has been in and out of state hospitals numorous times. nothing seems to help her and she is very bad. my family does not know how to help her or cope with her any more. my heart breaks for her that she can not get any help and has to live like this. we have been chasing our tails trying to make her feel better but nothing helps. she goes to a dr. who gives her whatever meds she asks for.I find this odd and dangerous. she starts her day by drinking alcohol to feel better then only feels worse and hears more voices that haunt her every day. It is a vicius circle and it keeps getting worse. I work 2 jobs and i am loosing my energy to keep up with all that demands that are there for a parent of a child with schizophrenia. I need your help,PLEASE PLEASE!!!

I dont know where to write so i am starting here! Dr Phil, I am in menopause and for the last 3 year’s have been having heavy period’s due to fibroid’s . I had 5 lupron shot’s and the bleeding stopped for a year, it came back and stayed for 2 and a half mounth’s give or take. I lost 69 percent of my blood, and became anemic, I have a red rash all over, and the itch wont go away ,I am going in for surgery on july 22nd I am worried, and you come to mind! maybe a word from you would bring me courage please! DR Phil = strength.

Hello Dr Phil, I was wondering if you could help me. Your show today was about bullys. Well Im not that. I am a 47 year old women. People are very mean to me. I started aging really quickly. And now anyone that was my friend is not anymore. I think it is all because of my brain tumor.I been having problems. But I never thought people would laugh and point at me. I was hoping you would talk to me, with out laughing. and being meaning. Thank you Laurie

OK i really (do not take personally) but i hate your show when that kid slapped his mother well i am on the kids side. You don’t even know what is happening in the house or wherever. I right now just am upset with you first you need to know all the details second you don’t know if the mother was lying or if the child was lying if i wore you i would not even talk till i have ALL details. you were mean to the boy you were just rude you have know idea what’s going on so just shut-up now!!!!

How can I ask you a question without it being read by anyone that wants to read it?

I am watching the gal that said her boyfriend or husband is abusive. Let me tell you that when a man slaps you once it continues to go down hill from there. I too had a boyfriend who beat the crap out of me. It continually got worse then he started threatening me with a gun. People who knew him would swear up and down that I was at fault not him. She needs to run just as fast as she can.