Did You Know Many JWs that Were Always Depressed & Sick?

minimus

Is it me or is it reality that most JWs are troubled?? That is they don't seem to be the "happiest people on earth"?

blondie

Some JWs were depressed and sick before becoming JWs with the hope that after baptism their condition would lessen...

Others are under a great deal of stress to be perfect according to human standards and rarely hear a word of commendation (you're doing better but you could do even more).

Some would like to leave but can't and are continually bombarded by the WTS propaganda but without the protection of living in lala land any more.

Living in a climate of spiritual abuse will make most people sick and depressed over time.

Some JWs become hard and unforgiving, and detach from most JWs except a few "friends."

As hubbie says, if you have no one you can trust and confide in, it is unhealthy.

Blondie

Honesty

Did You Know Many JWs that Were Always Depressed & Sick?

I was.

Until I climbed out the....

dedpoet

I was ok as a jw until I became a ministerial servant. The extra pressure got to me then, and I never really wanted to be an elder.

I did know many who were sick a lot, chronic fatigue syndrome seemed to be a common condition among jws around here, and a lot were depressed as well. But of course they were ALL so happy, the wts said so.

daniel-p

Did You Know Many JWs that Were Always Depressed & Sick?

Yes, and mostly the pioneers. Talking to the JW's after meetings sometimes seems like the Auto-Immune Disorder Society weekly meetings, if there is such a thing.

crazyblondeb

OMG!!! My 3 sisters and I were just talking about the Thursday. My mom is soooo depressed, it isn't even funny anymore. Each one of us has asked her to go get some antidepressants. NO!! She won't!! Every week is worse than the last.

Normally I tune her out when she starts with the jw crapola. But today she told me she had some new literature she really wanted to give me, even though she knew it'd "make me mad". I asked her if she was talking about the tract. For a minute, she was smiling, asking if I had already got one? "No mom, I saw it before you did"! Not smiling anymore, she asked if it was "on one of THOSE sitess?" "Yes, mom, it was".

Then she tells me how they've NEVER said that before!! I asked her where she was 20+ years ago when we were doing the same thing. She kept saying I was wrong. Has I was walking in my place, she kept yelling louder. All I could do was laugh, and kept saying "bye mom". Neighbors were laughing.

Anyone know where that thread is about the different tract campaigns?

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread. I'm just SO sick of her constant whining about how bad she has it.

OUTLAW

Yes,it seemed like 80-90%.I don`t think Kingdom Halls provide a healthy enviroment.Almost everyone is sick or depressed.....The New System is right around the corner.Jehovah`s Witness`s are the happiest people on earth.The generation of 1914 will never die.....I`m surprised more of them don`t loose thier minds...OUTLAW

megsmomma

I remember them even talking about this on the platform...Either you are suffering from cancer or depression. It's this wicked system getting to us, and Satan is attacking all the good little dubs....So that is the excuse as to why all are miserable. Funny how getting out of the org is the best cure for depression!

restrangled

When I was in as a teenager and my father was an elder, every single pioneer, elder's wife etc., was on some kind of medication or had terrible depression problems. 2 of the elders had a vitamin and herb business with the "brothers" being the biggest customers.

My parents were friends with a couple from another hall who got in on the ground floor of one of those pyramid schemes, selling vitamins to begin with....... they wound up millionaires.

The younger single girls started getting antidepressants when I was leaving. It was a very sick KH with very sick elders. Wife beaters, adulterers, one was 22 straight out of Bethal and instantly made an elder upon his return. No wonder all the women were on meds. This was a huge hall on the southwest side of Chicago.

r.

Arthur

Many of these depressed JWs remind me of an emotionally abused wife who stays with her husband because he has convinced her that she could not survive without him. As painful as her life is; in a morbid way; it becomes comfortable.

The WTS has convinced all of it's followers / empolyees that the world around them is in a spiritually darkened, hopeless, and futile state of affairs, where everyone is trying to clamor for some hope. Yet, when JWs meet "worldly" people who are devoted Christians, and seem to have many blessings in their life; it tends to screw with their head a little.

If a JW can keep themselves from meeting such people; find a good concoction of anti-depressants, comfort food, and diversionary hobbies; they can propably remain stable. And, if they can continue to look at the world through the lense of the nightly news (with all of it's doom and gloom) perhaps they can keep ahold of that slogan that tells them that JWs are the happiest people on earth.

Did You Know Many JWs that Were Always Depressed & Sick?

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