Reply To: Therapy – To Tell or Not to Tell?

We need to find out if people have serious mental issues in order to stop tragedies from happening in our community where couples find out too late and divorce is on the rise because of mental issues. Maybe a mental health evaluation, by a certified, unbiased board of mental health before people go out on a shidduch is necessary. We do Dor Yeshorim to test about physical genetics, what about mental? I am being serious here. We have a problem, a catch-22. We want our kids to get the best shidduch, so we dont let them seek appropriate health specialists. We want them to be healthy (mentally or physically) so they go to seek the care they need. We dont want our kids to marry someone with a problem but we dont want others to find out about our own. We are afraid that we wont get a shidduch because of mental issues but we dont want to marry someone with them. We are stuck in a rut…