by Dansk 38 Replies latest jw friends
I find this forum immensely therapeutic. Posters here have helped me with personal issues as well as historical, religious, evolutionary, etc. I think this is the best psychiatric forum for XJWs anywhere, kinda like my own personal shrink!
What do you think?
Ian
Greetings Ian,
Great question!. I think it's just a fun place to be with so many ones of like mind. I laugh alot here.
Dismembered
Dismembered:
I laugh alot here.
YOU'VE made me laugh a lot!
Thank you!!
Ian
Same here. People who understand where i am coming from, know what i am going on about and usually have some solution or idea about a problem.
In some ways, it is.
Being here has played a big part in my recovery after leaving the wts. I have found friends here, been helped in resolving personal issues, been entertained, and been kept informed of what is happening in the jw world.
I have come a long way since last November, when I da'd, and being on this board is one of the reasons I have made the progress I have. Joining JWD was one of the better decisions I have made in the last year.
Linda
yeh, i thought i had 'recovered' till i spent a month here i realised i knew nothing, if i hadn't of discovered all the scandals e.t.c i would of spent a long time 'wondering'.
I see this place as a big support group.
We see so many others who have gone through what we've gone through as regards being a JW. We understand. We know. We've been there. We reaffirm to each other that we're not alone.
I see this place as a big support group.
Absolutely!
Ian
Owdo Dansk!
Not my shrink but it's been a great place to get a more rounded knowledge of what the HECK i did with 15 yrs of my life.
Just a fun place really.
I'm not one to discuss very private issues with people from all over the world that i don't really know. By that i mean that i wouldn't 'air' about my love life or other sensitive stuff. I respect that some find the need to do that here though. Whatever floats yer boat.
Peace
Lowden
We reaffirm to each other that we're not alone.
Good point undercover.
Leaving the jws can be a lonely experience for some, particularly when practically all their friends/family are still jws. There's no doubt that that's what keeps many in - the prospect of losing every friend they've ever had almost overnight.
Apart from being on here, I was lucky enough to have a friend like Trev to go to when I left, but not everyone is that lucky, and boards like this one are a lifeline to some who exit.
Linda
