Panic Crisis after talking to JW

by Genesis 26 Replies latest jw friends

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  cyber-sista

  Genesis...It does get better with time. At first II felt like I was coming off of a bad drug, especially when I had contact with JWs. I sought help of a therapist who had experience with those who had left cults. The WT (as other controlling relgions) use some powerful conditioning tecniques, but the patterns can be broken. I still find it is best to avoid Jws as much as possible and this gets easier with time also because JWs do not want to be around those who are "inactive" in the faith. They are trained to avoid such ones and I think it is easier for them to do so because it shakes them up too. I think most realize deep down that it is all BS, but they are still chosing to stay in the trance for one reason or another--fear being a big one.

  I wish you well and my only suggestion is to get there and live your dreams and when you begin to do this the WT will start to fade into the distance.

  the best to you,

  cybs
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  lv4fer

  I think Panic is one of the first things you go through. Sometimes you will feel disgust for them and for yourself for allowing yourself to be misled. A sense of relief that you are out, once you get there you will begin to feel pity for those still in. Your still young and have your whole life ahead of you. Go back to school, make new friends.
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  Double Edge

  I've never been a dub, so I haven't walked in your shoes. However, I do know the scriptures teach "positive" principles and that God does not want us to get caught up in self-fulfilling negativity.

  2 Timothy 1:7
  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

  If you are feeling fear, it's NOT coming from God.
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  wannaexit

  Hi Genesis,

  Leaving the org and their deeply entrenched ideas is a long process.

  What your are feeling is perfectly normal.

  Don't give your search up. Keep reading and educating yourself. YOu will eventually

  get to a point where you will be able to look at wt with an objective mind and really see it 

  for what it is.

  regards,

  wanna
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  joelbear

  try to read factual material and trust your own mind and heart.
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  Genesis

  Thank you all, it means a lot to me. Im glad to know that there is other people out there that have lived the same experience than me. Im moving this week end to my fathers house and I think it will help me to cure. And for the one thats suggested me to read "Combatting Mind Control Cult", I have ordered it a week ago and still waiting for it and im glad to know i made a good choice by buying it. Thanks again and may God see the good in our Heart. Genesis
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  jaffacake

  After you have read Crisis of Conscience you may like to read the follow up - In Search of Christian Freedom. This explains so clearly, to those like me who still believe in God and Christ, why Jehovah's Witnesses have got it so wrong. It explains beautifully why JW teaching is seriously flawed and unbiblical. It showed me why I could be one of Jehovah's Witnesses or a Christian, but not both. The two faiths are incompatible with each other.

  However, the most important breakthrough for me was What the Bible Really Teaches by Keith Ward (a non JW related book).
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  DannyHaszard

  The guilt complex i experienced for 5 years post exit has clinical names and it's called a mixed dynamic of stockholm syndrome cognitive dissonance and surrogate displacement rage MORE on Stockholm Syndrome google these keywords may be helpful.-Danny
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  jeanniebeanz

  Hi, there. Sorry this is happening to you. It happened to me too...until I learned a little mental procedure which worked very well for me.

  Whenever I began to feel stressed by comments or even recurring thoughts of witness teachings, I would ask myself one question; Is what I am feeling based upon facts and logical reasoning or does it dredge up feelings of fear in spite of the fact that the evidence shows the teachings to be false?

  If there was no logical, factual reason for the feeling, I deemed it to be an emotional pre-programmed response designed to derail my own reasoning abilities and turn me into an automaton for the GB. I then dismissed it.

  If it was logical, then I'd listen to it. However, the feelings dredged up by witnesses and their predictions of doom and demonization never once in the 12 years I've been out, have turned out to be based in provable fact.

  It was hard to use this mental evaluation of feelings at first. I had to work at it and remind myself to use it over and over again. However, within a three month period of time, the panic attacks were replaced with *gasp* amusement. I'd hear their teachings and actually laugh my ass off.

  I am hoping that this helps you. There is a book that I have recommended before on this forum. It's not a religious book and it's kind of odd in places, but "Awaken the Giant Within" chapter 4, "Belief Systems: the Power To Create And The Power To Destroy" was excellent. It was worth the price of the book just for that chapter.

  Jean
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  Elsewhere

  when I talk to a Witness or read a post of a Witness that says stupidity like we are deceiving people and come from Satan, it hurts me and I begin a sort of Panic Crisis

  Have these JWs provided examples of the lies and deception they are refering to? If not, challenge them to show you the lies and deception. I bet you they can't.