You’ve heard about addiction to opioids prescribed for physical pain, but today, Mel meets people who became addicted to opioids as a result of extreme emotional trauma. How the opioid epidemic is crippling Americans, and what needs to change now.
Today, party moms out of control! Mel’s intervention with a mom who leaves her kids with babysitters 7 nights a week to party. Plus, a mom $70,000 in debt who can’t stop spending at the club. When is partying okay, and when is it irresponsible?
Is a narcissist born or raised? Today, Mel helps parents whose 5-year-old son is already showing narcissistic tendencies, and it’s gotten so bad that he’s breaking things and drawing on furniture to get attention!
Mel sits down with a 27-year-old who is sick and tired of paying her mom’s bills. Is her mom a moocher? When it’s time to cut off a family member in financial trouble.
Today, the surprising way anxiety can trigger debilitating panic attacks. Mel explains how worry builds into anxiety, and eventually into full-blown panic, and what you can do to stop it.
Today, the dangers of keeping secrets from the one you love. A man comes to Mel desperate to find out why his best friend cut him out of her life. Then, a woman who can’t get her boyfriend to commit after 12 years. The secret reason he won’t marry her.
Grown adults at their absolute worst, living with explosive anger! Mel meets Asia, who says her husband’s rage is going to land him in prison, or worse, unless Mel intervenes. He’s even been banned from his own child’s elementary school!