Hi maximus,
few comments on this watchtower:
Openly provide your physician with any helpful information you can, including recent changes in the teen's life that might be contributing his or her listlessness
Good advice. When a JW go to the doctor. he looks straight in his eyes and says nothing. This is the same infantil instructions than the KM before convention: "Drink water when weather is hot, etc..." JW are really babies.
Make sure that the doctor spends enough time listening to the symptoms before making a diagnosis
Are they even on day went to psychanalist ? Do they think that the guy listen you 20 minutes and said after that: "You have a psychosis".
A psychiatric's diagnosis can take 6 month sometimes. Room, i think you are right, this kind of counsel implie that the Watchtower's writer think about a conventional doctor not mental health professional.
For instance, if the doctor feels that your teen is clinically depressed, you might want to ask why he ruled out other diagnoses
And if he says that all is ok, you can go directly on door to door.
And do you think that a jw dub will understand the answer of this kind of stupid question ?
make sure your teen gets a proper amount of rest, nutrition, and exercise."
Ouarf. exactly the good advice that my mother give me each time i have her on the phone. Is my mother the FDS ?
Still, the Bible contains principles that can help us to comfort sufferers. More than that, it contains God's promise that he will soon heal all of our maladies (Psalm 103:3)
Perhaps this is the "soon" in this claim that is the cause of lot of depression among JW ;-)
This is accompanied by a picture of the depressed girl on the cover, now smiling and holding
The same as some old advertising for washing powder.
Hey, old member of the GB, when you have nothing to say: shut-up. This is sometimes the best help in the depression: Be here and shut-up.
Bye
Charles