Topic : 09/01 Family Intervention

Dear Andrew,  

Congratulations on your recent success dealing with your alcohol addiction!  

Congratulations on helping your family to begin their journey coming clean from drugs and alcohol!  

Congratulations on seeing what your family needed and bringing them to a place where they can be helped!  

Congratulations on becoming a strong healthy young man who will make a difference in this world!  

I hope your Father and Joshua take up the offer Dr Phil has extended to them and that with time and effort your family will become a phenomenal one!  

Good luck for the future!  

Lavinia 

My biggest respect to andrew, stay strong the way you were in the show, and just know, that sometimes it gets hard and difficult to go through difficulties in life, even if you feel, you're near to soil your pants, the secret is to know what you want, especially what you want for yourself, you have done the first step, and as i believe, there were not only one step, you've helped your mother and brother, you've done your job man, now it's their choices what they make out of it, and i wish, that the show was a start to a succesfull future. I really hope as well, that your return to home was human, and if it was troublesome, i hope for you that you have somehow a backup to continue enjoying your acquiered inner peace, with or without your father and joe  

to the mother and AC, it might get tough first, but know that the light at the end of the tunnel that andrew showed you, is not just a fuzzy hallucination, it really is a way out to clearance and to get you to make you reach the goals you want, congratulations to you to  

Saundra, 

Having met you recently through our friend's divorce hearing, I know the progress you have made since the show was taped.  I want to tell you how special you are.  To go from where you were to  where you are today is amazing  - you even look like a totally different person! 

Judy 

Andrew, you are such an amazing young man. Great job today on the show. I can only hope and pray that your intervention does good for you and your family. I can only wish you the best of luck in the future. Don't sell yourself short due to your upbringings and learn from your parents mistakes when you go to have a family of your own. Keep your chin up, reach for the stars, and don't let anyone tell you that you can't. Keep your life in order and be happy and proud of yourself for ALL that you do. Make decisions based on what YOU want and what YOU need. If you're ever in Michigan give me a call you would be amazing to talk to.   

AC and Saundra, take your son/brothers lead. It's sad that the baby of the family had to do what he did. Not the parent, or the oldest child, it was the baby. Saundra obviously you did something right in raising him. Do what is best for YOU. Each of you. Listen to Dr. Phil's advice and know that there is refuge in the Lord.   

Great job Andrew. You are amazing.   

This is the first time that i have wrote into Dr. Phil. Actually I just decided to regester due to the face that i wanted to send a message to Andrew and his family.   

When watching you today, all i could do was nod at everything that was said. You and I have had the same life on so many different levels. The courage that it must take to go on national television and lay it all out for the world to see is not something that i would be strong enough to do, but i think that it is amazing that you were able to.   

I wanted to grab you from the t.v and just give you a huge hug. . . I know what your feeling, and i know that it is so difficult for you to not use what is happening in your life as how you define yourself... Dont ever let this define who you are.   

You are so beautiful, smart, full of so much courage and promise... I admire you for your ability to deal with what i still struggle with. Thanks for helping to remind me that i am not the only one who has dealt with this... Thanks Andrew.   

Hi Andrew and Family!!! Congrats on everything you have done and will do,,it takes alot of strength to not only do that for yourself but that you care soooo much for your family that you are willingto help them to.....browneyedjess21 yahoo messenger name..If you ever want to talk..and your are such a super cute guy..so dont take amything but the best--love ya-Jess   Hi Dr. Phil me and my roomate love you!!! oh and hi Robin!!!