Topic : 06/15 Biggest Reunions Ever

I would love to know what gives a person the right to judge someone because he or she has an addiction???  I've dealt with substance abuse for the majority of my adult life.  It is a battle.  Overeating is indeed a disease, just as being a drug addict is.  The only difference is that everyone can outwardly see that someone has a control problem when he/she is obese and those people jump to judge that book by its cover.  And how can someone have the audacity to question someone's intelligence?  Every person is different and deals with things differently.  It makes me sad to see this kind of blatant disregard for someone who is trying to get help.  The issue is not HOW they got this way.. the important thing is that they're ready to change.

I really feel for that little girl. She has no life outside of the four walls of HER MOTHER'S prison!!!!! And that's truly ashame. I don't have much empathy for Vicki because in my heart of hearts, I believe that she could do better.

Dr. Phil was correct when he asked her what she would do if there was no one around to 'cater' to her needs. She would have to do for herself. I am not bashing her or anything, I can understand her struggles with weight, but what I can't understand is why she feels the need to make that young teen-ager suffer along with her. All children should have some form of chores, it gives them both responsibility, and character but in my opinion, the mother has taken it too far.

If I am correct, didn't she state that she had someone to come in weekly to assist her with personal care needs? If so, then it's even more ridiculous that she has that child doing the things that she has to do. That child needs to have both the freedom, and courtesy that she had growing up, not being a child-slave emptying a 'pee' jar out everyday for her mother because her mother is too 'lazy' to do it herself.

There a difference between needing help, and abusing the help in which you're given. What is she going to do when that child decides to leave home, then what? It's difficult for some adutls taking care of their aged parents to keep up a regimen like that, and if no intervention is given soon, that child will be scarred for life, trust me.

Dr Phil, I say job well done, get her up off the couch and moving.

Lashawnna