Alright so I DVR Dr. Phil everyday but I end up watching them in bulk because I don’t have time to watch him in the evenings. After reading the captions on each show I decided to catch up on the Dr. Phil Get Real Retreat that airs on Thursdays. The retreat consists of the same 14 people in a intensive 3 day retreat of life changing but painful counseling. I won’t comment on everyone just the ones that have peaked my interest.
Paige- Currently in love/obsessed with a married man who she has been sleeping with for two years. He has NEVER spent a night at her house. She took one of his t-shirts and wrapped her pillow with it. The first day of the retreat she came off arrogant and almost impossible to help. Telling Dr. Phil she would have raised her hands but she was sitting on them because she was cold. Insinuating that if he wanted her to get involved he needed to change the temperature in the room.
Kathleen- A home day care provider who is terrified of black men due to being rapped by one in her past. She is suicidal and has a wall up that a mack truck can’t seem to tear down. She avoids the only black man at the retreat by all costs.
Wade- (The black guy Kathleen avoids) Raped twice at age 9 and 13 by a white man in his neighborhood. In telling the story Wade says that this man told Wade to ride in the car with him so they could find the person that broke his garage window and then he pulled over and salvagely raped him. Wade goes on to say that after he raped him he put him out on the side of the road and he was in so much pain that he could not walk he just stood there. He mentioned that no one even asked if he was okay. Hearing that Dr. Phil looked him in his eyes and asked, “Are you okay?” and with tears in his eyes Wade shook his head no, then he asked, “Do you want to be okay?” he shook his head yes.
If you want to see the retreat for yourself watch Dr. Phil on Thursdays.
Wade really made an impact with me. Paige is living in her own world she would go five more years settling with this married man if someone doesn’t talk some sense into her.
Paige REALLY is living in her own world! You hit the nail right on the head! !!! She continued to stalk this poor man even after getting help at the “get real retreat”. Going on the show was just another stunt she pulled to attempt to break up his marriage or get some attention(???)
Trust me, she is fabricating the whole story, from the phony picture of her and her so-called “lover” to him promising to leave his wife. And, she’s done the same thing with other married men.
Don’t believe everything you see on TV folks.
I agree with Leanne I am sure she only dates unattainable men because that is what she feels she deserves.
25 years ago, Dr. Phil put together the training he now calls the Get Real Retreat (or Get Real Challenge on Oprah). Though he doesn’t have anything to do with the organization now that he’s so popular, that training is still available and thriving in the Dallas area. gopathways.org also.
I was on the Get Real Retreat and I have to say that Wade is a very caring person. I am glad to have met him!
Everyone will be amazed at how it all goes. It has been an adventure to say the least.
Kathleen is a very kind person too. I am looking forward to when they show the rest!
Melissa -www.melissagracemoore.com
The only thing that amazed me about the get real retreat is that the producers of the “Dr Phil Show” didn’t see through Paige before filming. I know this women and I know the man she is stalking. Paige is a liar suffering from a case of erotomania. The Police and RCMP are involved in this situation with her behavior indicating criminal harassment charges. Does the Dr Phil show check their guests credibility or are they only concerned with ratings?
Does the show realize the impact that airing this series has on the innocent man and his wife and children?
Paige from Dr Phil’s ‘Get real Retreat’ is a diagnosed psychotic/ sociopath. She has been charged with criminal harassment over what she has put this “married man” and his family through over the past couple of years. She is a liar and has submitted false information, including false photographs, to the Dr Phil show.
Her court appearance will be in early 2010 and she will then be forced to face the truth and finally, hopefully, “get real”