Dr. Phil

You know what just grinds my gears? Dr. Phil. It's hard for me to express my dislike for for this show. I'll start by summing up his apparent "self help" philosophy in a nutshell. "I think I'm gonna help fellow human beings overcome their problems by making them suffer complete embarrasment on national television...because I care."

I'm sure that psychology was once a respectable profession before it became associated with talk show hosts. I can hardly imagine how the profession could have any dignity now however. When I think of a psychologist, I think of someone who you can pay to listen to your deepest, darkest secrets and not have to worry about them telling. Then I see Dr. Phil on TV, "What? You say you never cheated on your wife? Well I have it on tape right here in my hand and America is gonna see you cheating on your wife you filthy stinking liar! Get real!" Yeah! There is a man who cares about his patients.

Now a psychologist is supposed to have somewhat of a knowledge on how the human mind works. They try to find problems in an individuals life that may be causing the problems. For example, a traumatic event might have happened in a person's past where they were severely embarrassed, which consequently led to a social disorder. A psychologist is a person you would see to fix the problem. This is definately not the case with Dr. Phil. I would hate to see how many social disorders he's created by showing live footage of the most rediculously personal things I've every seen. I'm sure Mrs. X was fine and dandy after America found out that she hasn't cleaned her house in 5 years. You know Bob got right over having the nation see his obsession with collecting Barbie dolls.

Finally, how is this guy captivating everyone as if he is a saint? I've even seen some Christians fooled into believing that this joke of a psychologist has Christian values. Let me inform you, publically sharing the lowest, most personal aspects of people's lives with the world for ratings is not Christian values. Anyone can throw out some "moral" statement to captivate the naive. Here is a hint, network television is not the place to look for a saint.

For those of you who like Dr. Phil and think he is a good moral person, I respond with an emphatic, "Get real!" He and his show grind my gears.