I used to be an avid Dr Phil fan, and thought he was helping a lot of people with his show. But I eventually had to stop watching because it felt to me like it was becoming too "Hollywood-ized", getting dangerously close to being more like Jerry Springer than Oprah. Every so often I watch to give it another chance, but usually have to turn it off because his adament "I'm right you're wrong" tactics, and pseudo-bullying of his guests really turns me off. Hopefully it's just my perspective, but he appears to me to becoming increasingly harsher and more impatient with people's inadequacies and limitations; I just don't see much compassion there anymore. Perhaps that's just due to time limitations...I'm sure he still helps a lot of people, but I simply can't watch him do it anymore!