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If you don't know who Dr Phil is, his real name is Phillip Calvin McGraw. He had a popular long-running American television talk show called "Dr. Phil" where he offered advice to guests based on his experience in psychology. Now it seems he's moving on to a prime-time partnership scheduled for early 2024.
-Let's start with the legality of his show. The advice Phil gave on it was legally not medical advice. However, that's completely immaterial because it's entirely foreseeable that those who watch it take it as medical advice anyways. Just look at the name of the show. Regardless of the legality, he undeniably has a responsibility to give good professional advice.
+Let's start with the legality of his show. The advice Phil gave on it was legally not medical advice. However, that's completely immaterial because it's entirely foreseeable that those who watch it take it as medical advice anyway. Just look at the name of the show. Regardless of the legality, he undeniably has a responsibility to give good professional advice.
This would be less of a problem if the advice he gave were actually good, but it's often nothing more than bullying and shaming mentally ill people on national television. I'm going to be providing evidence to back up that claim, starting with [the episode with Buffy Actor Nicholas Brendon](https://yewtu.be/embed/PH-PAaHnnMg?local=true "What Led 'Buffy' Actor Nicholas Brendon To Walk Off Dr. Phil's Show").
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Finally, Phil asked Nicholas if he drank last night, which the guest admitted to. Phil then said that he got a report that his guest was at a bar last night, which prompted Nicholas to say "I'm done." and walk off the stage. He asked if the exits were open, but Phil just ignored him and continued reading about his night of drinking. So he left. Good on him.
-Now what therapeutic value was there in Phil bringing up Nicholas being drunk last night in that way? What made it even more obvious that humiliation was Phil's goal is that he continued reading about Nicholas' night at the bar even after Nicholas walked off the show. The guest was gone. Any possible therapeutic value from reading about it was surely gone, and yet he continued anyways.
+Now what therapeutic value was there in Phil bringing up Nicholas being drunk last night in that way? What made it even more obvious that humiliation was Phil's goal is that he continued reading about Nicholas' night at the bar even after Nicholas walked off the show. The guest was gone. Any possible therapeutic value from reading about it was surely gone, and yet he continued anyway.
As icing on the cake, Phil's camera crew followed Nicholas, recording him even as he left despite him asking them to stop multiple times.
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To prevent the man from leaving early so that Phil could humiliate him more on national television, Phil blackmailed him by threatening him with a year of jail time and a ten thousand dollar fine over some stuff he broke in his hotel room. Not only was this incredibly manipulative, unprofessional, and unhelpful, but it might've even been illegal. You can't blackmail someone with jail time into participating in your faux therapy session where you're humiliating them for television ratings. The police backstage should've arrested Phil for blackmailing him. That's a far more serious crime than vandalism.
-Let's not forget that Phil is strapped with cash anyways. The last estimate I saw he was making eighty million dollars a year. He spends it on expensive watches. He doesn't give a fuck about paying for some broken stuff in a guest apartment. He could wipe his ass with that money. He just wanted to punish and humiliate this victim of domestic abuse who came to him seeking help.
+Let's not forget that Phil is strapped with cash anyway. The last estimate I saw he was making eighty million dollars a year. He spends it on expensive watches. He doesn't give a fuck about paying for some broken stuff in a guest apartment. He could wipe his ass with that money. He just wanted to punish and humiliate this victim of domestic abuse who came to him seeking help.
Phil then proceeded to paint himself as the hero saying that the guy was there "by his grace", as if blackmailing him into enduring Phil's public humiliation under the threat of jail time on national television was "grace". Phil's moronic audience apparently thought as much because they all applauded him. Then Phil proceeded to weaponize his army of useful idiots against the domestic abuse victim by asking them to stand up in agreement that the guest was a coward.