Mental Health Decoded with Mordechai

Question 1 – I Would Like to Share Feedback About a Previous Program Regarding a Child Crying in Nursery.

Question 2 – What Is AEDP Therapy, and What Are You Learning in Your Recent Training?

Question 3 – Can Babies Experience Emotions at a Very Young Age? Also, Why Can I Experience Intense Fear While Flying When Everyone Around Me Seems Calm?

Question 4 – When Someone Experiences Danger, They May Respond With Fight, Flight, or Freeze. Is It Possible That Someone Who Previously Used the Fight Response May Begin Freezing Because They No Longer Feel Able to Fight Back?

Question 5 – My 11-Year-Old Sister Feels Put Down and Unsafe Around Our 18-Year-Old Sibling, Who Is Very Tough on Her. Should I Stay at My Mother's House When She Goes Away for Shabbos to Protect My Younger Sister?

Question 6 – What Goes On in a Bully's Mind When They Hurt Others? Why Do They Behave This Way?

Question 1 – What Is Love, and How Do We Know if We Are Giving Our Children the Love They Truly Need?

Question 2 – My 5-Year-Old Son Has Extreme Anxiety and Needs Everything to Go His Way. How Can I Help Him?

Question 3 – We Were Discussing Sending Children to Stay With Other Families During a Simcha, but Someone Said We Should Assume Everyone Is Potentially Dangerous. How Can We Balance Trusting Others With Keeping Our Children Safe?

Question 1 – Regarding the Previous Program About a Grandmother Giving Advice, I Relate to the Daughter's Perspective. Sometimes Parents Have Tried Everything to Help Their Child With ADHD. Rather Than Offering Advice, Grandparents Can Help by Giving Parents a Shabbos Break and Understanding That Parents May Not Share Every Difficulty.

Question 2 – I Took Your Workshop on Dealing With Difficult People Years Ago, and It Helped Me Tremendously. Now Another Family Member Repeatedly Makes Jokes at My Expense. How Can I Stop This Bullying Behavior?

Question 3 – I've Heard Professionals Explain That Becoming Afraid of Your Own Anxiety Can Actually Make It Worse. Is This True, and How Does the Fear of Fear Work?

Question 4 – I Have an 8-Year-Old Nephew Who Becomes Violent and Fights With My Children. My Mother Refuses to Get Involved. What Is My Responsibility, and Should I Confront the Child or His Parents? 

Question 1 - My Relationship with a Family Member Is Better When We're Apart. Can Therapy Help Us Become Closer, or Is Distance Better?

Question 2 - If I See Someone's Lack of Initiative, Should I Warn a Potential Shidduch or Stay Out of It?

Question 3 - I've Learned a Lot About Self-Growth but Haven't Put It into Practice. Should I Consider Intensive Therapy?

Question 4 - My 8-Year-Old Grandson Doesn't Want Me to Kiss Him and Seems Unhappy. How Can I Help Him?

Question 1 - In the Previous Program, You Discussed Couples Having Different Interests. What If a Couple Has Had Very Different Needs Throughout Their Entire Marriage?

Question 2 - How Can You Heal Attachment Wounds If the Hurt Happened in the Past?

Question 3 - What Are Red Flags to Watch for with a Therapist? If a Good Therapist Lies or Is in Denial About Something, Is That a Red Flag?

Question 4 - Regarding Attachment Wounds, How Do You Make Peace with Never Receiving the Love You Needed?

Question 5 - How Do I Know If I Want to Switch Therapists Because the Therapist Is the Problem or Because I Am? 

Question 1 - I Teach 3- and 4-Year-Olds, and One Child Is Still Crying Frequently After Two Weeks. How Do I Know If This Is Normal Adjustment or Something More?

Question 2 - If I Have Attachment Wounds, Can Therapy Fully Heal Them, or Will They Always Be Part of Me?

Question 3 - Can Grief Be About More Than Losing a Person, Such as a Physical or Medical Loss or a Major Life Change?

Question 4 - I Enjoy Hiking but My Husband Doesn't. He's Upset That I Go with Friends Instead of Spending That Time with Him. Is He Right? 

Question 1 - My 7- and 9-Year-Old Sons Have Been Having Ongoing Problems on the School Bus, Including Being Pushed Around and Having Money Taken. The School Hasn't Helped. What Should I Do?

Question 2 - My 16-Year-Old Is Developmentally Delayed and Can Sometimes Act Her Age and Other Times Like a 2-Year-Old. What Does It Mean When Someone Says Medication Can “Take the Edge Off” but Won't Remove the Triggers?

Question 3 - My Adult Child Seems Codependent and Constantly Puts Others Before Themselves. What Can I Do as a Parent? 

Question 1 - I Have Derealization and Have Been Seeing the World as Dimmer, but My Eye Doctor Says Everything Is Fine. Can Derealization Cause This?

Question 2 - I've Been in Therapy for 20 Years but Missed the Past Three Weeks. My Daughter Recently Seemed More Closed with Me. Could My Break from Therapy Be Affecting Her?

Question 3 - How Do You Handle a Teenager Who Goes on an Angry Rant About a Situation They Need to Learn to Accept?

Question 4 - I Had a Harmful Experience with a Life Coach, and I Felt the Supervisor Defended the Coach Instead of Addressing What Happened. What Are the Risks of Going to an Unlicensed Therapist or Coach? 

Comment 1A - You Mentioned a Pasuk About Trees Without Fruit and People Without Children, and How the Pasuk Ends with Connection to Hashem as the Answer.

Question 1B - Some People Say, “Just Pop a Pill and Make It Easier.” When Is Medication Appropriate, and When Is It Important to Do the Hard Work in Therapy?

Question 1C - Can OCD Improve Without Therapy?

Question 2 - How Can Someone Learn and Master Anxiety Coping Skills While Taking Medication?

Question 3 - What Is the Difference Between Bipolar I and Bipolar II? Do People with Bipolar Disorder Sometimes Struggle to Accept Their Diagnosis or Take Medication? 

Question 1A - I Was Recommended Medication for Postpartum Depression. Should I Start with Therapy, Medication, or Both Together?

Question 2 - I'm a Therapist Close to Getting My Clinical License, but I Doubt Myself When Clients Don't Improve as I Expected. Why Do I Lack Confidence, and Am I Doing Something Wrong?

Question 3A - If Someone Needs Coffee Every Morning to Feel Alert, Is That an Addiction or a Problem?

Question 3B - Is It True That There Is Not Enough Oversight of Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Medication?