Messages By: phleblori

I am a 42 yr old woman who truly knows how it feels to struggle with anorexia.. I struggled with this disease when I was a teen into my early 20's and almost died.. I was hospitalitized for over a yr. I can honestly say I was one of the lucky ones who not only survived but have honestly beaten this horrible addiction. Do I have set backs? ofcourse, but I NEVER let it get me ! At my age now I have seen physical problems that have occured because of it and that is something I just deal with. I don't dwell upon the face that I have had anorexia I grasp it because my disease has helped many women and if I help just one battle this then it has been worth all my pain. I feel blessed that i'm here and here to help.  Its just sad what this world has done to our girls.

I am so glad you are doing this show Dr. Phil... I am going to make my son watch it with me..

He is 15yrs old and has been addicted to "runescape" for many yrs.. I thought he would outgrow it,but

he hasn't.  We have given him chance after chance to have to try to control it himself and he's failed. Talks

after talks trying to explain, we are so exhausted. We finally took it away from him and ofcourse he's angry

so angry at us, he won't talk, he tries to trade one addiction for another and we stop it also. He just thinks

we are terrible parents. He's now only allowed to play on sat. for 3 hrs. Now since he can't play the game he goes on the computer and watches other people play, and he still tries to tell us that he's not addicted, to give him a chance.  Please, I will be so anxious to see what advice you can give us on this, and hopefully when my son watches the show he will see what addiction can do.   I have an appt with his counselor at school on tues to see if he can help us.. He's depressed.