Messages By: justnancy

I still don't get it. Last week, I watched Dr. Phil do excellent couples therapy stressing the fact that if you don't get honest, you can't go forward and he wouldn't waste his time.  I love watching him help people. He has such an amazing gift!

Yet, with Nadya, it is painfully obvious that she has lied about so many things (like the plastic surgery) and Dr. Phil lets her glide on by. And, he counters the opposition by saying, "Well, Nadya says..." (As if that would carry any merit?)

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.  Who said that that?

Maybe the Angels in Waiting did make Nadya feel inadequate so she stayed away from her babies.  Maybe we're supposed to believe it was one big, gigantic nurse conspiracy and her word is not mud.

Let's suppose for a moment that Nadya was telling the truth and all of these nurses were lying.  I don't believe wild horses could keep me away from my newborn children ~ let alone The GAP.

I think today's show was skewed to support Dr. Phil's position, which was to facilitate putting these babies into the arms of an unbalanced woman with antisocial tendencies.

I don't want to pretend to understand the media lions that go to battle and the frenzy of distortion that ensues. 

I don't want to say I don't trust Dr. Phil on the Octomom thing but I can't say that I entirely trust him either. Is that the same thing?

Same here! I thought, Dr. Phil, you've been doing this a long time ~ can't you tell this woman ain't wound too tight?

I couldn't agree with you more! I thought, "Dr. Phil, you've been doing this a long time! Can't you tell the woman sitting across from you isn't wound too tight?"

I really hope I did not throw Dr. Phil under the bus! That was not my intention at all.  I am just confused by his position on this thing.  That being said.

This is a situation, created by Nadya, for which there are no easy answers.

I do not believe she will be able to do a good job of raising 14 kids, giving them the love and attention and safety they deserve. 

I believe she's far too selfish to ever give any of her babies up for adoption even though that would be the best thing for the children.  

In America, you can't take away someone's children because you think they're going to have miserable childhoods ~ it would be a frightening place if we could.

I am not fooled by Nadya's saccharine demeanor. She's not a nice woman.  And, I'm not so sure she's willing to change, especially if she's getting all the stuff she wants.

Maybe Dr. Phil was doing the best possible thing in a thorny, icky situation. I keep wondering why he kept throwing her softballs instead of really challenging her.  Maybe he was concerned that she would storm off and go to another show. NOT because HE wanted the interview, but because, he knew that if she did that, her kids wouldn't get the help that he could provide.

Okay, that was being a tad harsh on him... I couldn't figure out why he kept throwing Nadya these softballs when he never would have done that with a nonfamous client.  It occurred to me that maybe he did it so that she wouldn't run to another show, NOT because he was worried about ratings, but because he knew that if she went trotting off to Howard Stern or who knows where, she would not get the direly needed help for her kids. So, he used a different approach.