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By Rob
Updated: April 21, 2012
By RU Rob
Last Friday morning, Nick posted a little gem of wisdom on the Ranger Up Facebook page. To quote him directly, “Hey Dr. Phil, go fuck yourself!” As I started reading, it lead me to another post by Cassie over at You Served. I quickly read the article and could quite literally feel my blood start to boil.
You see, I have PTSD, have dealt with the effects of it for quite some time and have even shared my trials and tribulations with you in an article “I Have PTSD…So What.” Cassie’s piece referenced the Dr. Phil show which aired last Thursday entitled “From Heroes to Monsters?” The premise of the show was to reveal the stories of 3 combat veterans and their personal struggles after returning from war. I watched the trailer for the show and vinegar began spewing from my nether regions and steam from my ears. At first thought, I was going to rip Dr. Phil a new one. But instead, I think I will simply doucheify Dr. Phil and more so his producers for airing a show that not only creates a disservice to our service-members, but once again feeds the media virus of stupidity.
Now before I begin this dissection of douchetastic disdain, I want you to know that I have watched suffered through the full episode of the show so this is not based on a thirty second clip or a skimming of reviews on the show. To begin with, I don’t agree with the airing of personal problems on a national stage. Mental health issues are best dealt with by mental health professionals in a setting that is conducive to therapy, not some hack that has to bring in seventeen “real” professionals to substantiate and reaffirm his own cockamamie douchefuckary on a sound stage in Hollywood. I also question the agenda of the guests. Are they looking to make a quick buck by exaggerating symptoms of PTSD at the behest of the producers or are they truly suffering the effects of PTSD? I don’t know.
My biggest problem with this entire show is the fucking editing. Each person told their story but it was edited into something a lot more than what it actually was. Case in point, the part where Mark was talking about how he was relieved from his machine gun as he had been carrying it all day and he swapped positions with the HUMVEE driver for a bit. It then immediately jumped to talking about pulling the (presumed) same soldier out of the driver’s compartment in a Bradley and how it was Mark’s fault that the soldier died.
WTF people – there is a little difference between a wheeled vehicle and that of an Infantry Fighting Vehicle. It was quick and only a trained ear would have caught it, but it was there. Why did you take two separate encounters and splice them into one…to sensationalize it maybe? Dumb-asses!
What about the part where Matt was having a discussion on stage with Dr. Fillmywallet and reveals how he feels that he is a burden to his family? Why in the fuck would you cut to tape that displays Matt holding a rifle while simultaneously injecting the sound of a shot-gun slide? Even if Matt was not suicidal, you sure made him out to be. Do you not realize that suicide is a major epidemic in our armed forces and that you are just exacerbating it to the general I-don’t-do-anything-but-sit-on-my-ass-and-watch-TV- all-day American public? Where are the standards in broadcasting?
Look you mental midgets, PTSD sucks, we get that and we know it as we live it every freaking day and night. But if you don’t know what the hell you are talking about, head on over to the fridge and grab a tall, cool bottle of STFU. It is shows like this that will discourage that service member who really needs help and is about to reach out but is instead called a “monster” on a nationally syndicated TV show. We don’t want your pity; we don’t want your sympathy. All we want is for you to recognize that we too are people and even though you like to think that we have all gone from “Heroes to Monsters,” it is quite the contrary, dick-smacks!
If you agree with me, why don’t you drop ole Dr. Douchebag a little note on his contact page? Tell him Ranger Up sent you! What would be even better is if you copied your email into the comments below!
Dr. Phil and staff, I hereby sentence you to Douchebagistan. There are many, many people there that could greatly use your editing techniques and one-on-one counseling sessions to enhance their already douchey existence.
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Sean meadows
April 21, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Get him….douche
Angelia
April 21, 2012 at 2:40 pm
On a side note… “After starting CSI, McGraw ceased the practice of psychology. He maintained his license current and in good standing until he elected to retire it 15 years later in 2006.[18] Appearing on the Today Show in January 2008, McGraw said that he has made it “very clear” that his current work does not involve the practice of psychology. He also said that he had “retired from psychology”.[19] According to the Today Show, the California Board of Psychology determined in 2002 that he did not require a license because his show involves “entertainment” rather than psychology.”… Apparently it is clear that he is an entertainer now. Guy is a heartless bastard.
Patrick Gormley
April 21, 2012 at 2:44 pm
While haveing never served in the Military I have the utmost respect for those that have. I never really watched Dr Phils show, I read your post about the PTSD segment and agree with RANGERUP and their opinion of the media. I dont remember how I found the RANGERUP site, but would rather read it than watch any news program. I have a cousin serving now and am proud that he has chosen the military as a profession and am disgusted at the way the Military is portrayed by people like Dr. Phil.
John Plover
April 21, 2012 at 2:52 pm
I have sent my 2 cents to “Dr.” Phil… damn him and his military bashing propaganda….
Brian B
April 21, 2012 at 3:01 pm
here is my reply
I am a United States Veteran. I served in Iraq for a year. I take great offense in your show calling us monsters. Its things like that, that put americans against the people that they should embrace with open arms. Most my generation are completly useless as it is and this just reinforces the idea of not to do anything for your country. The United States military is .45% of the whole populace, we are an elite few who have the courage to make the ultimate sacriface it called upon, so who are you to call us monsters?Have you ever served? ever had to fight for your life on a daily basis? ever miss any holidays,or your children being born or not being able to say good bye to a loved one that passed? How about have any of your friends bleed out in front of you? The men and women of the United States military have, and they have done it so people like you who have didnt have the spine could blast them on national television. I hope you feel like a big man for doing this and maybe, just maybe you will come to senses and take responsibilty and apoligize to the entire military for being a Jerk and unsupportive of thier sacrifice.
Kevin Ott
April 21, 2012 at 3:04 pm
I stopped watching these self proclaimed “professionals” a while back. They do nothing for people and everything for their own wallets. Dr Phil isn’t even a real Dr and even if he was as most of us know, there are whole teams of Psychiatrist, Psychologist, and Therapist running peer groups to help Veterans help themselves. We don’t need the glamorous media speaking anything for us.
I cringe everytime there is a shooting somewhere because if…if it is a combat veteran they too will make it into something it most likely is not. Stick to bullies, cheating spouses, and masturbation Dr Phil!!! Seems like you’ve mastered Mental Masturbation so you ought to be able to carry that message. Don’t carry mine.
1SG (R) Kevin Ott
RLTW
sharder8
April 21, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Rob — I think you said it just fine . . .
“Dr. Phil and staff, I hereby sentence you to Douchebagistan. There are many, many people there that could greatly use your editing techniques and one-on-one counseling sessions to enhance their already douchey existence.”
Dale Bower
April 21, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Theirs my Email hope it helps
Dr. Phil your show on PTSD is worst thing you have even showed to the public. The men and women that serve this great nation do not deserve to be painted as monsters after returning from war. Yes there are people how need help, but showing the public the bad side of the story and only that is some of the worst broadcasting i have seen. I myself have been Declared by V.A. to have PTSD, But i deal with it as it comes. I have a family of my own and when i have issues with my life I then take care of them and move on. Some people that served need help with that. I’m lucky to have a understanding wife that helps deal with the things in my life that bother me to know end. Like soldiers of this Country being told they are monsters by people that have no idea what they talking about. If you really want to help open that fat wallet you have from Oprah’s bank account and help these heroes get help. Thats how you make a diffidence thats how you get respect. Not trashing the people that put there lives in danger so idiots like you can make a dollar. Thank you for your time i hope this changes your mind and you do something that really helps people instead being just as oblivious to the real problem like the rest of america.
PFC Weston
April 21, 2012 at 3:59 pm
I totally agree about “Dr.” Fill-my-wallet…him and many many others make the military look like some vortex that sucks the youth in at their early adulthood…It is one of the many many reasons why i don’t like to watch tv anymore…because 1: the news always has bad news, 2: almost everything that comes on about the military is just like this shit.
Thank you RANGERUP for making the most valid point on the subject that I’ve ever seen.
Your Battle-buddy,
PFC Wes
Kyle
April 21, 2012 at 4:09 pm
I emailed the Dr. Phil show before this article was posted, immediately after the one that Nick posted. I even stole his description when I shared it. I don’t remember what I said, but it wasn’t nice. I too suffer from PTSD, and I’ve yet to kill anyone to my memory, but I have some issues with that too from a TBI.
Dustin
April 21, 2012 at 4:52 pm
The story about Mark doesn’t seem spliced to me. Mark was in a Bradly and his friend was in a HUMVEE. They then switched places so his friend was in the Bradly and Mark in the HUMVEE. The Bradly containing Mark’s friend was hit and he ended up dying. I agree that the title of the segment should not use the word “monster” or anything similar. I have ptsd too and am recieving help through the VA. Any veteran who even has the slightest suspicion that something isn’t right with them such as depression or anxiety should google their nearest VA outpatient clinic and set up an appointment. It took me years to do it but Im glad I did. They are much easier to work with than what I was expecting.
Chad Penny
April 21, 2012 at 4:53 pm
“Dr” Phil:
I am a seven year combat veteran who PROUDLY served in the US Army as an Airborne Infantryman. I fought in both wars, and was deployed three times. I VERY MUCH Resent u portraying people like me as “monsters”. That is distasteful, disrespectful, and quite frankly ignorant. It’s people like YOU who continue to give hard working, courageous, selfless people serving and who did serve in the military a bad name. PTSD is a horrible issue, and NOT something YOU need to be talking about in your show, seeing as you clearly have no respect for the issue at all. You, sir, are a disgrace as an American and FRAUD!!! How about u continue “worrying” about ur wayward teenagers and leave the military problems to TRUE professionals! That is all!!!
Mr. Joe
April 21, 2012 at 5:17 pm
My email to “Dr.” F*** Phil.
“Dr.” Phil, you are a complete waste of space and need to shut up about your view of soldiers as monsters. They are not monsters. Just cause one has PTSD does not make them monsters. Civilians get PTSD as well and go through some horrible moments due to seeing an area that reminds them of the incident or a certain sound. Your choice of airing a persons personal problems on national television was a mistake. You should know if you are going to talk to someone with PTSD you do it in a safe area with friends and family not strangers dumbass. You should go on national television and apologize to all the service men and women who suffer from PTSD and are currently deployed. You should also stop breathing the same air these brave men and women. Thank you and stop being like the cult leader Oprah. Idiot…
Joseph VanDyck
April 21, 2012 at 5:35 pm
I love the conjugation and numerous uses of the Douche word. All fitting. I also have PTSD, and all I want to do right now is slip into a dream/nightmare (your choice) and show Dr. Douchebag what a Dewalt cordless drill was used for in Iraq. He and his momma(Orca Windbag) should really choke themselves and quit wasting my oxygen.
SSG Joseph G VanDyck, medically retired 11B3P w/ 2 OIF back to back tours.
Clayton Blough
April 21, 2012 at 5:53 pm
Here’s my e-mail to him. And he’s the reasons why some people think southerners are stupid.
“You got alot of nerve slamming vets, you plastic shrink. Vets who have it don’t use it as a crutch,they simply recognize that they need help. All you’ve ever shown on your lackluster show are incompetent mothers and drug riddled kids (Jerry Springer should sue you, by the way), who need a good batch of discipline. And when you show something somewhat noble, you take it and pervert it for ratings you cultural sodomite. Your a talentless hack, and a daytime prima donna.
People who actually find their intestinal fortitude and join the military become more successful than wash ups like you. I wont even waste my time promoting your show; unless I’m going to boycott it. Oh and by the way, Ranger Up sent me, and you need to RANGER THE FUCK UP!!!”
gee bailey
April 24, 2012 at 11:43 am
Thank you Clayton
Very well said!
Joe
April 21, 2012 at 6:11 pm
“Dr.” Phil,
You recently aired an episode on PTSD that you should be ashamed of. You velified soldiers who have fought for this country and now have a very real issue that they need help with. As a veteran of both the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns I deal with PTSD on a daily basis. I’ve been with some of America’s finest at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and have seen them deal with it. The next time that you decide to call a soldier a “monster” because he now is dealing with PTSD you should remember that the real monsters are the ones that they have had to face to make sure to protect sorry people like you who wouldn’t stand a snowballs chance in hell if they were put in the same situation. I Whole heartedly believe that you should be ashamed of yourself and an apology wouldn’t even begin to cover the venom that you have spewed forth. Thanks for taking us another step backwards in societies eyes when some understanding of PTSD has come to light. I can’t wait to see how the people who watch your show are going to begin to treat soldiers now. I would say that I’m personaly going to boycot your show but that would mean that I would have had to watch it in the first place. I’m just glad that my boys over at Ranger Up showed me what you said so that I could send you this message to tell you what an UNBELIEVABLE Douchebag you really are. Sleep peacefully tonight though. A soldier (or a Monster as you like to call us.) will keep the wolves away from your fucking doorstep.
T Rex
April 21, 2012 at 6:30 pm
“dr” Phil, what you have displayed on your show has left a foul taste in the mouth of the very people who protect your freedom…the monsters. You see, I’m a 5 tour combat veteran to Iraq and Afghanistan with the 82nd airborne and 3rd battalion 75th Ranger Regiment. I’ve been to some rough places where everyone wants me and my friends dead. What, if I may ask, fucking expertise do you have on this subject? What expertise do you have on ANY subject for that matter? To cast a title like that on anyone who’s been shot at trying to protect their friends, while you take the title of “dr” and get shot at by a slew of camera lenses. How big of a self absorbed piece of human garbage are you? Here’s a tip jerkoff: take your show back to what its good at doing. Manipulating gullible housewives. Don’t ever cross the line like you have this time bud.
Sincerely f’ing pissed,
Justin Albers
Sylvia RN
April 21, 2012 at 6:55 pm
My Response to Dr. Phil:
Dr. Phil,
Ranger UP sent me here. As a registered nurse pursuing my doctorate in nursing practice, I’m appalled that you would label our men and women of the military “monsters” for suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Would you have the nerve to label a September 11th survivor a “monster?” I’m positive they suffer from PTSD. Would you have the nerve to label our Pearl Harbor survivors, our WWII survivors “monsters” because they too suffer from a condition induced by the trauma they were witness too? I didn’t think so.
I come from a long line of family members who have and are serving in the military. I have numerous friends who have and are serving. Several of those closest to me suffer from PTSD induced by the traumas they were witness to over seas. I can tell you first hand they are NOT “monsters.” They pose NO danger to myself or my family or anyone else, and to be perfectly frank with you, going out places with them, having them stay at my house, only makes me feel SAFER. Yes, some things are harder for them. Fireworks, close quarters crowded with people; we take those instances as they come and we work through them. Do I feel someone is in jeopardy because of the service member’s reaction to triggers? No. And to generalize to the American public, who already has issues with being fed LIES by the mainstream media regarding our service men and women, that our boys and girls coming back from war are ticking time bombs and pose dangers to themselves and others only serves to do a disservice to those who put their lives on the line for us.
Congratulations on painting our heroes as “monsters.” I hope and pray that this episode did not discourage even ONE service member from receiving the help they might need in dealing with PTSD; if it does, I hope it weighs heavily on your conscious that your show portrayed them as the “monster” they most certainly are not. They don’t need your pity. They don’t want your sympathy. They want to come home and be accepted for who they are, regardless of whether or not they have been changed by what they have seen. And they most decidedly deserve your apology for airing an episode that paints them in a terrible light, one that is not true.
Sincerely,
Sylvia Nielsen BSN, RN
Steve McCane
April 21, 2012 at 7:02 pm
Phil: (since “Dr.” is reserved for PhD holders and medical practioners)
I wanted to jump on the band wagon of those exiling you to doucebagistan. I accept the scrapes and bruises on my extremities for doing so as it passes by.
I thought your tactic of demonizing Veterans was beyond the pale of anything the typical mainstream media might try.
May you join other such JJE (Judge, Jury, Executioner) types such as Jack Murtha who leap at the chance to convict those in uniform, often whose only fault is that they chose to don the uniform of their country and fight our enemies over there since we know you wouldn’t be able to over here.
Steve McCane
SFC, retired
Brian
April 21, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Does anyone know who advertised on the show? That might be the most effective way to get him to recognize his stupidity – hit him in the wallet, and get the advertisers to back out of his show. If enough people write the advertisers saying “From your sponsorship of the Dr. Phil show addressing military veterans with PTSD as monstors, I understand that you do not support veterans, and am will no longer be purchasing your product.”
Problem solved
Leta Carruth
April 21, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Phil,
I am writing in response to your recent show depicting our military personnel who suffer from Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) as monsters. To say I am angry with your show, and depiction of our military in general, is an understatement.
I’ve had the absolute privilege of spending time with so many of our phenomenal combat Veterans at Walter Reed, Warrior Transition Units and in private settings. I’ve seen what PTS (I REFUSE to add the “D” for disorder) has done to many of them and the strain it has put on their families. More importantly I’ve watched as they work through their PTS by leaning on each other, their friends and family. No, they are not always successful in keeping their marriages or families intact but half of American marriages don’t stay together either, do they?
MONSTERS? Are you freaking kidding me? None of these men are monsters. NONE OF THEM! Serial killers, rapists, murderers – they are monsters.
You failed to acknowledge or accept that people outside of the military community suffer from PTS. You failed to acknowledge or accept that the crime rate in society far exceeds the crime rate within the military or within those who have left the military.
Above all you failed to acknowledge or seek out many, like the Veterans and Activie Duty military personnel I know, who are loving, generous, thoughtful, considerate, giving, kind, etc. etc. etc. and who have enriched my life beyond measure by the people they are. Men and women who give back to their military and civilian communites.
I have learned many great lessons from and am a MUCH better person BECAUSE of them, their tenacity to overcome adversity and the life lessons they have taught me.
It is far beyod shameful that you used your celebrity to paint our men and women in this light; that you sensationalized the horrific actions of those on your show and seemingly left it to the public that they can expect most any of our Veterans to behave in the same manner.
And, in my opinion, it is criminal that, instead of using your show as a means to help this nation understand the issues and struggles of Post Traumatic Stress, that you chose to vilify them. I realize you aren’t really a “Dr.” but way too many of those who watch your show aren’t aware of that. Sadly, many who drink from your “wisdom” probably don’t care. One thing is certain – it is because of people like YOU that our military personnel continue to get knocked down and have to pick themselves up again.
I am a MUCH better person for the privilege of knowing many who struggle each day to overcome whatever level of Post Traumatic Stress from which they may be suffering. I do NOT fear them. I am NOT uncomfortable around them. I DO and WILL ALWAYS support them. I will provide that support on the days when they are in distress and I will celebrate with them on the good days.
Your show was beyond shameful, hurtful and hateful
Chad Anderson
April 24, 2012 at 9:03 am
You tell him Leta. The Rock, Sky Soldiers.
Chris
April 22, 2012 at 2:53 am
Here is is what I sent to the esteemed Douchebag
First off I came to this site via my good friends at RANGERUP.
You recently aired a show portraying returning vets suffering from PTSD as monsters. Seeing how you have not been a liscensed doctor in almost 10 years , I am curious what 2 bit quack gave you that information or where you able to come up with it with your own feable mind?
You should really stick with what you know best, bad parents and kids who are the future of the prisons.
Next time your driving down the street in your car , realize how lucky you are to be able to drive a car because you still have all your limbs, or can still see and because you didnt suffer a brain injury that limits your mobility.
Now remember that these ” monsters” you portrayed ended up this way fighting in a war to protect your sorry civilian candy ass !
Congrats on making the top 10 list of people hated by the military.
Thankfully there are more men and women who have the balls to serve in the military then there are to sit back on their fat ass and call veterans monsters.
May god have mercy on your soul because I’ll be sure to piss on your grave .
An email has also been sent to all the companies that advertised on your show that day informing them of a boycott of their products and or services until they pull advertising from your show…
Richatd LaChappelle
April 22, 2012 at 3:18 am
Here are my comments to Dr. Phil: Our veterans are not “monsters”, but have been through some very monstrous things. Not being a vet I can’t truly even imagine those things. What I can do is accept them and help them and love them as God gives me the ability and opportunity. Never would I call them monsters or even imply such a thing. Never.
I have a friend who was injured quite badly while serving. He’s home now and must be hurting. Think I will look him up even though it’s been years aince we’ve seen each other or even spoken.He deserves that.
Life has not been easy for me the past 8 or so years due to parkinson’s, but I try to do something, even just a little, to help someone else who may be feeling a bit down. You know what I’ve found? A friendly hand up never hurt giver or receiver.
The Iraq Veteran
April 22, 2012 at 10:36 pm
I agree that the mainstream media sucks and always try to flip things to brainwash people but yes the military does turn a lot of people into monsters. Shit I even see the effects of the war propaganda and how it turns the kids nowadays who know nothing about the wars into racist wannabe killers. Now I do agree that not everybody in the military and not all Veterans are monsters but from my personal experience and my research and seeing how the people I have served with have turned out that yes war does ruin people but it doesn’t have to ruin your life. My life was put on hold for 4 years but I am finally starting to heal and do something with my life so I know personally that you can heal. I get your message about people shouldn’t judge us base off some mainstream media propaganda that does nothing but try to destroy our image since as active duty military we are treated like “celebrities” but once we are Veterans we are labeled lazy, crazy war vets. I’m just trying to say that it’s these illegal wars that do nothing to help Americans that take away our souls and turn some of us into monsters. I know because I lose my soul but thank God I got it back. Their is a cure for PTSD that the Army even talks about on their website but they refuse to use it since it is a cure. It’s called Rapid Resolution Therapy and I’m about to hopefully prove that this is a cure because a doctor that does this is giving me the treatment for free. Hopefully it is a cure because I do believe now that their is a cure since once I stopped taking meds back in Nov. 2011 I suddenly started to heal. Goes to show that the VA and meds are just meant to maintain us not cure us. I share my stories on youtube and I have helped a lot of people so far. Feel free to check me out. http://www.youtube.com/TexasGrown409
Rhonda Whittaker
April 23, 2012 at 5:16 pm
Dr Phil, I am shocked at the disrespect and lack of understanding which you & your show writers promoted toward American Veterans, who are suffering with PTSD. Booo!!!! You harmed thousands of good people by portraying a horrifying, false image of them. This is slanderous. Damage was done by your unfair, extreme point of view; taking things out of context corrupted the truth and painted PTSD sufferers as murderous monsters. Make amends if you really want to help these people. Produce a story with successful solutions, suggested therapies, and healing methods to cure the courageous people who are managing to live with PTSD illness.
Douglas Meeks
April 24, 2012 at 7:44 am
He is a product of the Obama/Oprah/racist machine, what else would you expect? They are anti-2nd Amendment and for all practical purposes anti-American (which includes soldiers). If he gets a second term you will get to see what a socialist he really is. Dr phil is just a small part of it but I will drop a line
Debra
April 24, 2012 at 10:38 am
Douche Phil,
Eventhough you don’t deserve the time of day, or protection and freedom that America provides for you, I took the time to sign up and give all my info to tell you to “RANGER UP”
I almost feel sorry for you and the immediate negative persona you have given yourself airing the Soldiers to Monters segment.
All of the intelligent people of this country are talking about this segment, and I have yet to see one person stand up for you. AND THATS EXACTLY WHAT YOU DESERVE, DISGRACE TO YOURSELF!
Men and Women DIE for us all. How dare you air such a negative title with your ungrateful opinion. The freedom you have to even speak another day on that quickly destroyed show of yours, IS FOUGHT and PROTECTED by the men and women you so clearly have no regard for.
Put on a uniform, fight for your own rights and see how you feel about that later.
“RANGER THE FUCK UP!”
Robert Kell
April 24, 2012 at 11:27 am
I served my country for twenty five years. Over the last couple of years,I was in I was diagnosed with everything from depression, PTSD, bipolar, and even after I retired I was diagnosed with multiple personalities. Now the label is personality disorder/depression. I don’t think the people on these shows know what the fuck they are talking about or what is going on in my head. I feel better talking to another vet than I do talking to the shrink. They for the most part mean well I hope. I’ve been out almost fifteen years and still find it hard sometimes to function in a “normal” environment. Yet even now I would go back.
gee bailey
April 24, 2012 at 11:51 am
my email simple said:
Your choice of airing a show describing anyone suffering from PTSD as a Monster disgusts me and to use the Military as an example shows your true lack of character. You may now thank My son a United States Marine for that freedom.
KC
April 24, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Just another liberal selling a story. They don’t care about truth, they care about ratings. They don’t know and they don’t want to know.
This Memorial Day when I’m lowering my flag to half staff, I’ll be thinking of the friends I’ve lost, the guys I’ve held in my arms while they sobbed, the guys that still have nightmares………I won’t be thinking about some asshat talking head on TV.
I think I’ll continue venting by going to the Wounded Warrior website and making a donation.
Screw you phil!
KC in Seattle
RLTW!
GB
April 24, 2012 at 12:07 pm
First of all, I am proud to say I have served -vietnam era- with the 82nd. I would also like to say that i agree with all of the sentiments of my brothers in arms. I can’t tell you what I have done to that so-called ‘dr.’ Phil in my mind. As was pointed out tho..he is an entertainer…not a ‘Dr’. As we email him with our distain for him and his show, we just fuel the fire. We help him accomplish his mission. He has created controversy,sensationalisem and a lot of hype. That is what his piece of shit show is all about. To this end, his wallet will be as fat as his head in no time. More sponsors to endorse this crap means a bigger paycheck for this non-hacker.
I say we focus our efforts on a counter attack. A counter attack of doing nothing…nothing at all to support or to fall in to that trap of fueling that fire of controversy that keeps this limp wrist on the air. You see, every time you view that show, respond to his website and create a ‘hit’ that their marketing people can track…you make him stronger. They have accomplished their objective. It raises their ratings.
Let’s take those ratings to ground zero. Let’s work on getting every military member, past and present, and their family members, and their friends to boycott this show. No ‘hits’ to track, no emails, a lack of fan base equals a lack of sponsors which equals a lack of money to fund this bullshit which will hopefully some day equal no more douche on tv.
I have started…only one that ever watched the show amoungst my friends and family was my mom…but she is old. I told her it was a matter of Homeland Security that she no longer watch this….I say we try to get this show banned from broadcasting to any Military base around the world because of what was said in the main article:
To begin with, I don’t agree with the airing of personal problems on a national stage. Mental health issues are best dealt with by mental health professionals in a setting that is conducive to therapy, not some hack that has to bring in seventeen “real” professionals to substantiate and reaffirm his own cockamamie douchefuckary on a sound stage in Hollywood.
I believe this kind of irresponsable media dribble violates some military regulation or homeland security protocal of some kind. Fuck’em…cut off their life line…don’t watch or even acknowledge they exist.
In the mean time…FIDO…fuck it drive on!!
Gunship Load
April 28, 2012 at 9:32 am
GB,
You beat me to the punch on this one. I initially had drafted a wonderful letter to Phil, but didn’t sent it becau of how the Internet has the ability to track such things. It gives him and his minions ammunition to go to his sponsors and tell them, “Look how popular we are, give us more money.”
GB, you have your head on straight on this issue, thank you for bringing it right up front where it needs to be.
People such as this “Doctor” need to be ignored, this is the only way for them to go away. I do not watch this talentless hack, and never will.
The issue with boycotting those that sponsor him, is that those companies will never feel the hurt of it because they also sponsor thinks at I fully support such as The Wounded Warrior program and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
Those are my thoughts, take they form what they a worth.
John
April 24, 2012 at 2:07 pm
I just want to remind everyone to check your grammar, and spelling before you send Dr. Douchebag an email. No reason to give him any ammo to use against us.
Kevin
April 24, 2012 at 3:27 pm
I’d like to banish the clown that made a post under the name The Iraq Veteran. He lost all credibility when he used the term “illegal war.”
P.S Nice video PFC P.O.G
Dennis B
April 24, 2012 at 3:32 pm
I find the narrative that your show put out about vets with PTSD to be extremely offensive and degrading to any individual (military or civilian) that has PTSD. As a “doctor” and “professional” how can you justify the show in question as being helpful to those involved? You are a therapist correct? Is public degradation and name calling helpful ever when working with a patient? I can’t believe that in good conscience that you did this show for any other reason beside spreading a false stigma and “earning” ratings for you declining show. Finally I would like to ask you or any of your staff if they have done any research into PTSD? Any at all? If you have then I highly doubt that you would have actually aired this show. I am in the psychology field and I am ashamed that you chose to air this show.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing back from you.
Dennis Boismenue
shawn
April 24, 2012 at 4:37 pm
I have always thought Dr. Phil was a blow hard. I have PTSD. and it took me many years to get help if I had to be tried like Dr. phil does I never would have gone for help. He is a ass munch
Richard Silva
April 24, 2012 at 7:14 pm
“I’ve been rated by the VA as 100% totally disabled by the VA for almost twenty years and I’ve never been insulted as much as I was by your show. Is the reason you surrendered your license because you know nothing about your craft? I was an Air Commando (I know, you never heard of us) and if anyone on our team had been half as incompetent as you we would have been dead on any number of missions. I do more for my community than most of the loud mouths like you and try to help my Brothers, not tear them down as I so easily could.
Your show turned into a freak show years ago when you seem to have learned that you just couldn’t hold an audience with an honest approach to people’s problems. An approach that might help someone else, not make them worse or afraid to reveal their problem.”
Gunship Load
April 28, 2012 at 9:02 am
Thank you for paving the way for me, and those Air Commandos I currently serve with!
Bull
April 24, 2012 at 10:30 pm
Hey Doc Phuckass just remember one thing. War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degrated state of moral and patriotic felling that thinks nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing he is willing to fight for, nothing he cares for more than himself is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the excertions of better men than himself !!! GO FUCK YOURSELF… RLTW
Torie
April 24, 2012 at 11:08 pm
MY REPLY TO DR. PHIL:
As the wife of a veteran who does, in fact, deal with PTSD I resent your “Heroes to Monsters” episode. Your caveman approach to this stress disorder may have caused more harm to our society than any one veteran with PTSD. Not only did you perpetrate a gross misconception about what PTSD truly is but you created a set-back in the diagnosis and treatment of this disorder by using a term such as “monster”. It’s hard enough for a man to come forward and admit that he may need some help, he certainly doesn’t need some self-proclaimed doctor labeling him as a monster. The truth is that most veterans with PTSD, like my husband, live completely normal lives and just happen to handle stress a little differently than most. So, perhaps, before you go placing harmful labels on a community you should think about who they are, what they stand for, and why they are the people they are today.
SGT
April 25, 2012 at 2:39 am
OMFG I want to rip off his fucking head. what a piece of shit. How the fuck can he do that and sleep at night. Of course the fucking retards who have never been in war never seen there friends die in there hands after having some haji fuck blow them up with Ieds or be shot. FUck fuck fuck fuck fuck… Dr. phil why don’t you do a special where you explain to everyone how pathetic you are and like taking dick in the ass because your mommy and daddy didn’t hug you enough and get on with the real reason of why your such a douche bag. Dr. Phil why don’t you ranger the fuck up.. join the good ole Infantry and serve your country like a real man. We serve, we sacrifice everything, we sweat blood and tears for freedom, yet we get bashed like this. FUCK YOU man.. Fuck you.. just hope I never come face to face with you.. because Ill beat your ass just like your daddy should have done.
Mick
April 25, 2012 at 12:06 pm
My email to “Dr.Phil”;
Mr. Phil McGraw,
You have sensationalized the suffering of veterans of the United States of America. You did so in a way that was both immoral and unprofessional. You and/or your broadcasting team of retarded shit throwing monkeys have spliced audio in an attempt to make veterans suffering from a very real condition look like menaces to society. You took personal suffering and in a nationally syndicated television show turned it into what you must have hoped was entertainment for your audience of lazy sit-on-their-ass Americans. People who have never picked up a rifle to defend the constitution or their country have no right to judge the effects of war on those that have. I’m sitting in Afghanistan during my third tour, taking time I could use to talk to my family, in order to let you know that you Sir, are a douchebag. I caught your sentencing to Douchebagistan in the Ranger Up nation. Hope you enjoy your stay. I also hope that one of your 3 guests has the common sense to sue you and your show for defamation of character. Of course, the American justice system at this point is a joke so I’m sure that not only would you win, some federal judge that caters specifically to 1%’ers like you would probably give you a pat on the head and insist you’re performing a valuable public service letting people know about the “dangers” of veterans turned into “monsters”. Well, here’s to hoping that you get run over by a bus and die a slow painful death.
SGT McCoy
Satch
April 25, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Phil McCrackin’ is a blow hard, ‘it’s okay now I;m here, self proclaimed ‘expert’. I’m on the Nick Train…“Hey Dr. Phil, go fuck yourself!”
Doc
June 11, 2012 at 1:37 am
Hummmmmm……I couldn’t agree more. I don’t see what in the hell he hopes to accomplish by branding them with the stigmata of a ‘monster’. I have lost friends to suicide, all because they were too scared to seek help, or thought that it’d invalidate their man card. I don’t know what Feelmeup is thinking, but he’s not a real MD (To the best of my knowledge. Yes I have watched the show, only to prove myself right when people were calling him a fluke. I never want to give anyone the raw end of the deal, but he deserves it. He’s attempting to be a Psychologist, when he doesn’t have the proper training, or even a medical degree. I work as a lowly medic, yes a legal street drug pusher, lol. I even have more in the area of psychology then he does…I also forgot to mention I have a Bach. in Psychology.) He attempts to inflate his ratings by trying to be something he’s not. If a civilian done that, they are branded as a traitor, or it’s seen as something to do with the Act of Valor (law/bill, unsure which.) Does he get anything? HELL NO, no one seems to care that he’s got a Doctorate in Astrophysics (If I recall correctly).
Now I don’t know about you, however I can’t seem to make the jump from Astrophysics to Psychology. It doesn’t seem to make any sense to me. I don’t get where he gets off doing this shit. I didn’t watch the episode in question, but I know how he works. I can’t start with good conscious in believing that he doesn’t know the difference between the two. I like you do not understand why calling those with PTSD out on national television is going to help them? I see that he’s pretty much a douchbag, I’ve thought that from day one, it was proven, and remains true today. He needs to get off his TV and let the real professionals do the work to help our fellow brothers and sisters. I hope that more can find the help that they need, and are strong enough to seek it, and not take the ‘easy way out’. We have come to far to just give up, when you think that no one cares, it’s probably best to think that at least someone does. I wish you all that read this the very best, good luck to you, and Godspeed in your recovery. You take care too brah, Godspeed in your recovery.