750: Can You Help Friend Shake His Psychotic Break? | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Your best friend's tether to reality was severed by a psychotic break when you were living abroad, and you were disheartened upon returning to discover just how immersed in paranoid delusions he'd become. His state seems to have improved for the moment, but you're worried he could succumb to these delusions again at any time. Is there anything you can do to help him, or is this something he needs to work out on his own? We'll try to find an answer to this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- Is there hope you can help your friend recover from a psychotic break that has him immersed in paranoid delusions? [Thanks to clinical psychologist Dr. Najwa Culver for helping us with this one!]
- You're embarrassed by your hubby's tendency to overdrink in polite company, but any concern or criticism on your part is met with furious pushback. Should you just keep your mouth shut and hope she gets a handle on this, or are you right to intervene?
- You were recently given a clear, unambiguous offer for what was more or less your dream job, but it was withdrawn in an email stating the company had decided to go with someone else. Is this grounds for a lawsuit?
- Is your significant other's omission of past relationship details meant to: a) hide something, b) protect you, c) convey disrespect, or d) none of the above?
- With ongoing world conflicts, the potential loss of abortion rights, climate change, and rising costs of living, how can you justify bringing a child into the world?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback |
| 0:08.6 | Friday producer Mike Compadre and consultation Gabriel Mizrahi. On the Jordan Harbinger |
| 0:14.4 | show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people |
| 0:18.0 | and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and |
| 0:22.6 | those around you. We want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing |
| 0:26.1 | people think and behave, and our mission is to help you become a better informed, more |
| 0:30.4 | critical thinker so you can get a much deeper understanding of how the world works and |
| 0:34.4 | make sense of what's really happening even inside your own mind. If you're new to the |
| 0:38.5 | show, on Fridays, we give advice to you and answer listener questions. The rest of the |
| 0:42.4 | week, we have long form interviews and conversations with a variety of amazing folks from spies |
| 0:47.3 | to CEOs, athletes, authors, thinkers, and performers. This week, we had Yasmin Muhammad on growing |
| 0:53.2 | up in conservative Islam, abusive practices in conservative Islam, and leaving the religion. |
| 0:59.0 | This was a two-parter, pretty heavy, of course, but a fascinating look, a peak behind the |
| 1:04.0 | Berkha, if you will, into a world that most of us just never get to see. Y'all know how |
| 1:09.2 | much I love those kinds of conversations. Make sure you've had a listen to those episodes |
| 1:13.2 | here this week. Gabe, before we dive in, I remembered something this morning I haven't |
| 1:18.6 | thought of in quite a while. I'm not totally sure of the relevance here. It's just kind |
| 1:22.6 | of a funny story, but back in New York, when I lived there like 10 years ago, I used to |
| 1:26.5 | do this thing with taxi drivers. Usually I'd be drinking, you'd be night out. This is Jordan |
| 1:32.0 | 1.0, I guess you would say. I would talk crazy to the taxi drivers when they drove me home. |
| 1:38.0 | I'd sit in the front if they would let me, usually they would because they'd be with other |
| 1:41.7 | people in the back. I'd ask if they had kids, how it was driving a taxi, get into a real |
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