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I've never watched Dr. Phil before and I won't. I remember how he needled his way in with Britney Spears' mental illness, trying to exploit it. Hollyrude is Hollyrude, not healing.
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Dr. Phil is About PTSD Tomorrow....
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Wow...I took away what I liked and was happy for the two woman that he was now going to provide free help to. I would love to get the assisstance I feel I need but life circumstances can sometimes be a bit overwhelming when it comes to helping ourselves and he just did it for them. Lets just be thankful it is starting to be rocognized..it did show some of our symtoms, flat affect, hypervigilence. Etc for the lay person because he shows to such a broad audience it has to be quite simple. WE...are the experts, we live with this daily. It was nice to see someone else and relate to being afraid to do the simplest tasks sometimes.....
Anyway rather than this being a debate...I was just trying to look at the positive..trying to keep my thinking positive. It is just a tv show..if you learned something than it was helpful, if it helped you feel not so alone or validated..take from that. If you did not like it and did not learn if was only a tv show...move on, move forward and do something else. Not trying to offend JMO.
Anyway rather than this being a debate...I was just trying to look at the positive..trying to keep my thinking positive. It is just a tv show..if you learned something than it was helpful, if it helped you feel not so alone or validated..take from that. If you did not like it and did not learn if was only a tv show...move on, move forward and do something else. Not trying to offend JMO.
Here's my tuppence on Dr. Phil
I had the impression that Dr. Phil hadn't got a clue, and I did get offended and taken aback with the 'get over it' comment, so I watched it again to see what it was that I was upset about. It, PTSD, is far too encompassing to be dealt with as a TV show, he just skimmed over the top and didn't see the real deep down situations we're working with, which are of course the crux of the matter.
His whole thing is 'get a life, now' and for me that is a trigger, I'd get a life if I could, I'd have to know what 'a life' is before I got one and maybe mine isn't that bad after all. The second time I saw the show I wasn't offended, that alone is interesting in itself.
I think that showing the trauma was ok, apparently some people don't have traumatic lives, so if someone somewhere understands just a little that this is real, then that's better than nothing, so I suggest it was a very small success. I don't really see how a non PTSD person could understand where we're coming from anyway.
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I had the impression that Dr. Phil hadn't got a clue, and I did get offended and taken aback with the 'get over it' comment, so I watched it again to see what it was that I was upset about. It, PTSD, is far too encompassing to be dealt with as a TV show, he just skimmed over the top and didn't see the real deep down situations we're working with, which are of course the crux of the matter.
His whole thing is 'get a life, now' and for me that is a trigger, I'd get a life if I could, I'd have to know what 'a life' is before I got one and maybe mine isn't that bad after all. The second time I saw the show I wasn't offended, that alone is interesting in itself.
I think that showing the trauma was ok, apparently some people don't have traumatic lives, so if someone somewhere understands just a little that this is real, then that's better than nothing, so I suggest it was a very small success. I don't really see how a non PTSD person could understand where we're coming from anyway.
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Herc, I think you have read my remarks in a way not intended, nor was I expressing. I am seriously asking you these things to understand what you think, not having a dig at you. Please remember, what is written does not come with emotion, so one cannot interpret it. I am very serious in the questions posed though.... not threatened, serious to what you expected from the show!
I think sometimes that people forget that television shows are just that entertainment.
Some can be very uplifting and very informative but at the end of the day they are still entertainment.
They also have a lot of considerations to take into account when being made etc. Sponsorship, endorsements and advertisers, viewing figures...and then what the backers others alligences are, where the money comes from that makes these programes.
I think you have to accept this programe for what it is, and understand that at least in some small way it is begining to be addressed and hopefully it will be more open and understanding in the furture.
The general viewing public don't necessarily always want to be totally informed about something so heavy either, they ofeten put the television on as a distraction, and so I do believe that seeing this as an opening point for further programming is a good way to look at it.
Dr Phil is not the holy grail and I think there is sometimes a danger of people overlooking and missing that.
I do believe though that with time, education and enlightenment about these subjects will come. It is about starting the groundwork, laying down a foundation for future discussions and debates. Which is what these programmes do. In the grand scheme of things you can't educate someone in an hour, you can only begin, and put a question out there. But maybe some people will have seen it and think I want to know more...and maybe they will go out and find out for themselves- I can only hope, but you never know. Understanding has to begin somewhere.
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Some can be very uplifting and very informative but at the end of the day they are still entertainment.
They also have a lot of considerations to take into account when being made etc. Sponsorship, endorsements and advertisers, viewing figures...and then what the backers others alligences are, where the money comes from that makes these programes.
I think you have to accept this programe for what it is, and understand that at least in some small way it is begining to be addressed and hopefully it will be more open and understanding in the furture.
The general viewing public don't necessarily always want to be totally informed about something so heavy either, they ofeten put the television on as a distraction, and so I do believe that seeing this as an opening point for further programming is a good way to look at it.
Dr Phil is not the holy grail and I think there is sometimes a danger of people overlooking and missing that.
I do believe though that with time, education and enlightenment about these subjects will come. It is about starting the groundwork, laying down a foundation for future discussions and debates. Which is what these programmes do. In the grand scheme of things you can't educate someone in an hour, you can only begin, and put a question out there. But maybe some people will have seen it and think I want to know more...and maybe they will go out and find out for themselves- I can only hope, but you never know. Understanding has to begin somewhere.
~fin
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OOPS! Sorry? I hate that part of the Internet(not getting the emotion, etc)
I was hoping that the show would cover the symptoms and have a discussion of the lives of a suffer in deeper detail. I guess I wanted him to enlighten the public on the subject of PTSD.
I think a few of us, maybe more, have trouble verbalizing just exactly what/how we are feeling. I know he is a tv doctor, but the subject is a serious one and I foolishly thought he would handle it in deeper psychological detail.
Oh Well, don't like him anyway, never did.
OOPS! Sorry? I hate that part of the Internet(not getting the emotion, etc)
I was hoping that the show would cover the symptoms and have a discussion of the lives of a suffer in deeper detail. I guess I wanted him to enlighten the public on the subject of PTSD.
I think a few of us, maybe more, have trouble verbalizing just exactly what/how we are feeling. I know he is a tv doctor, but the subject is a serious one and I foolishly thought he would handle it in deeper psychological detail.
Oh Well, don't like him anyway, never did.
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