1118: Son's Safety Vexed by Schizoaffective Ex | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Your ex's schizoaffective episodes keep getting court-approved showtime with your special-needs child, despite restraining orders. It's Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- You're raising a special-needs child in Norway while locked in an endless dance with a legal system that keeps inviting your ex — who has a documented history of violent psychotic episodes — to waltz back into your lives despite restraining orders. How do you protect your child when the system seems determined to tango with danger?
- You're watching L.A.'s recent wildfire coverage from your Northern California community, where neighbors still camp in RVs after losing everything to even larger infernos. It's like screaming into the void while celebrities get prime-time attention for their lost pool houses. How do you process this disparity in coverage and support?
- Your professor treats student assistants like Victorian servants, dismisses them mid-sentence, and weaponizes awkward silences. How do you co-exist with someone who has such authority while preserving your dignity?
- Diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder 20 years ago, your mother, once grounded in reality, now believes you've infected her brain with parasites and refuses to leave her house or see doctors. It's like watching someone slowly slip through your fingers while the legal system shrugs. How do you help someone who sees such help as a threat?
- Recommendation of the Week: Audit your medicine expiration dates.
- After three years of orchestrating your life around your rescue dog's careful medical routine, you've had to say goodbye. Like a cruel cosmic joke, it caps off two years of personal earthquakes — layoffs, moves, heartbreaks. Seemingly sharing in the act of mourning, your other dog howls at the pawprint box. How do you rebuild when grief keeps redecorating?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback |
| 0:08.1 | Friday producer, the sanitizing hand wipe handed to you as you take your seat in this first class |
| 0:12.9 | cabin of life drama, Gabriel Mizrahi. By the way, I love how it's now our job to clean our seats |
| 0:19.0 | on an airplane after you pay, what do you mean what are you |
| 0:21.4 | talking about those things are just for your hands aren't they no no i've never first of all i i don't think so |
| 0:26.0 | i've never seen anyone not use it for the seat and tray table i assume the reason it's massive and not a |
| 0:30.6 | little one is because they want you to clean the seat like oh i just paid six grand for this flight, but by all means, put me to work while I'm here. |
| 0:38.2 | I got nothing else to do. |
| 0:39.6 | I think those are for your hands, but people are just taking it upon themselves to sanitize |
| 0:44.2 | the general area. |
| 0:45.0 | You may be right, but let me ask you this. |
| 0:46.5 | You just have OCD. |
| 0:47.1 | If you had a sandwich in your hand, would you put it on a bare naked tray table, or would |
| 0:50.8 | you want to sanitize that sucker first or put some other surface between the tray table or would you want to sanitize that sucker first or put some other surface between the |
| 0:54.2 | tray table and your food? I'm not arguing. I'm just saying the airline is trying to give you. It's for your |
| 0:58.5 | hands. I just want you to know that. Now I'm questioning myself here. If you're a flight attendant, |
| 1:02.1 | are those really just for your hands? Are you supposed to clean your seat? Tell me the truth. |
| 1:05.2 | On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. |
| 1:15.0 | Our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker, and during the |
| 1:18.9 | week we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks, from organized crime |
| 1:23.2 | figures to war correspondence, astronauts, to national security advisors and tech luminaries. This week, |
| 1:28.2 | we had Ann Applebaum on authoritarian regimes, why and how they cooperate with one another, and make |
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