I love watching dr Phil but the shows with eating disorders and drug addiction are all the same and it is like watching repeat after repeat of the same show!  I deleted this episode when I found out it was about anorexia and drug addiction! 


Let me guess! The parents enable the girl and dr Phil gets tough with the parents then sends the girl to rehab which is a top of the line high cost place that normal people can't afford! 


I think the producers of the show are having a hard time creating new topics and just repeat the same stuff over and over!  I am expecting the dr Phil family and Alex to be on the show again! I won't watch because I am sick of the same thing but that topic keeps on getting thrashed to death while most viewers can't stand the girl! 


Please find other topics to address that are not addictions, weight problems or bullies! 

Morgan I too have struggled with restricting eating.  I have never struggled with drugs but I also have OCD.  I no longer struggle with the food issues and barely with the OCD.  I felt like you had a breakthrough on the show!  I do agree that God put you there in that moment and allowed you to feel his love.  I've had those moments in my struggle with the eating disorder and OCD where I just feel loved, realize what I'm doing to myself is heartbreaking, and see a way out.  Hold onto that moment when your tempted to go back.  Before you can even get into your illness just take a second to remember how you felt on that stage!  I believe you needed that!  Best of luck to you!  I'll be thinking of you.  Shannon

I hope that Morgan gets the help that she needs. Anorexia and Addiction, the combination is going to be tough to treat.

I really didn't care for the VERY dramatic even hostile turn Dr. Phil did with Morgan's parents. I heard two worried, tired, and anxious parents express concerns about any contribution that they may have made to her long-standing illness after Dr. Phil specifically asked them for that information. Dr. Phil then distorts their concerns to be about, "Me! Me! Me!" So much for being a "Safe Place To Talk About Tough Things."

It is this element in his shows that is QUITE off-putting for sane thinking people. Verbally attacking Morgan's parents didn't help Morgan for a second!

I am so sorry about the loss of your son. My college boyfriend was the first male I had met who had struggled with eating disorders. As someone who was a self-recovering bulimic at the time (I knew if my parents knew they would just be mad at how it reflected on them, not supportive, so my only option was to recover in silence), I had never known men/boys could be afflicted as well. Again, I am so so sorry for the loss of your beautiful son.

I don't mean to sound cruel, but it seems that the anorexic women/girls Dr. Phil has on his show almost always talk in whiney baby wha wha voices. Is part of the illness a desire to stay a child? Or is it part of the manipulative aspect of the disease, an attempt to elicit sympathy to get what they want? I have a brother addicted to pain meds, and his whole m.o. is to act like a victim/really sweet guy (unless you don't "loan" him that $20 he needs for "gas." It seems infantile to me but seems to be a common ploy with manipulators.

When I watched the show that day I found myself in tears praying for her. I couldn't believe her parents, after learning that she attempted suicide twice, didn't jump out of their chairs hug her, hold her and tell her how much they loved her and how improtant she is. I was so angry with them. That girl needs loved plan and simple. She needs to know that she is a child of God! She has value and is worthy to live a fullfilling life. 

I was so pleased that Dr.Phil handled things the way he did. He is an awesome human being with incredible abilities.

I was so surprised that not one of her family reached out to hug her. It was pitiful the lack of emotion I saw in her family!  I could see the compassion in Dr. Phils, I thought he might be the one to give her a hug. I did see some emotion in her Dad but if it was one of my children I would have been standing beside her with my arm around her. I will be praying for this poor girl and giving thanks for people like Dr. Phil. I saw more compassion on Dr. Phil's wife face than on Morgan's Mothers face!


Stick with it Morgan, you can do it .Many many people are pulling and praying for you!

Dr Phil is so amazing the way he treats his guests with so much understanding and compassion, God love him for doing the work he does.  I just wanted to say that and also, poor Morgan - why is she on drugs and anorexic?  Will they find that out during therapy?  Because being raped and betrayed by friends seems so trivial, there must have been some more major things going on for her to lose all hope of even wanting to live.  I was molested by my gramps for 9 years, we lived with the g'parents.  My divorced Mom was at work and from the age of 3-6 I was left alone to my own devices til I started school.  Gram was in bed, Gramps was drinking all day.  He pulled me onto his lap once a day.  For 9 years.  I thought it was normal.  I never told my mom.  This is the '50's.  I stuffed it til just recently.  I raised 4 kids alone, never drank, or did drugs or went crazy.  I was raped and tortured by my 2nd husband.  I'm asking myself if I should fall apart now or just keep going.  None of my family knows except my daughters.  Gramps molested my sister too and she's all screwed up.  Don't know why I'm rambling, I think Morgan's story made me think of what a wimpy excuse she had for "ending it all."

After watching this episode, I felt compelled to get on the blog and see what kind of response would be triggered from those who really know what an eating disorder entails and from those who have no clue.  Bob and Ginger:  I'm truly sorry for everything you have endured during your daughter's young life.  I know first hand the trials and triumphs of living with an eating disorder.  Our son lost his battle with his eating disorder at the age of 21 - after 9 years with bulimia, anorexia and then alcohol abuse in the last year.  During those 9 years, we (I say 'we' because it affects the entire family - it wasn't just our son going through this, it was his father and I and his two brothers) had multiple hospitalizations (so many I can't even count) for medical management, five residential treatment facility admissions, multiple weeks of daily outpatient therapy including nutritional, psych, art therapy, etc, etc.  Of course, hackleberry, parents want to 'fix' their child/young adult.  I have no doubt that Bob and Ginger were involved with Morgan's recoveries in her multiple treatment programs (remember this is only an hour-long show, kinda hard to sum up all the years' events during that time).  


An eating disordered victim will show the therapists what they want to see and say what the therapist wants to hear.  If the patient isn't truthful and is manipulating the therapists & counselors, you know the famiy is being manipulated along the way as well and all the family support in the world doesn't do much.  Dr. Phil is good at getting to the point on his show - however, I'm sure not a lot really sunk in with Morgan due to her extreme malnutrition and drug addiction.

I just want to say - DON'T JUDGE!  Morgan is a very sick young lady and her family has suffered right alongside her.  Eating disordered patients are very good manipulators - they are high achievers in everything they do, including their eating disorder.  Just because Bob & Ginger didn't tell her they loved her during this show, doesn't mean they haven't told her repeatedly over the years how much their precious daughter means to them.   At this point, they are exhausted from everything and they need help as well.


God Bless this family, I hope Morgan embraces this opportunity and begins to heal.


  

as I sit here and watch today show I am crying ,I feel the moms pain ,I have a daughter who has major back problems and she is so addicted to her pain pills that she has no life and her 2 girls are paying the price along with her,If I say anything to her or her husband i get chewed out and I feel like they keep the girls away from me.I feel like I am the only ones they can talk to so I bite my tongue and pray that my neither the 7 or the 11 year old find her dead one morning while dad is at work.I have seen my daughter not be able to hold her head up due to beening on so many pain kids , My grand are gonna hate her for the way they have to live , Because they are home schooled if mom doesnt feel like doing any thing then they can do anything . I feel like they are damned if they do and damed if they dont...I am the caretaker for my  mom and dad so I cant do but so much... so I feel their pain