I think its partly responsible for my sexual deviancy. From the first time I heard the word fornication at age 4 I was obsessed. Looking forward to menopause or death to interupt this life long addiction.
Does Being A Jehovahs Witness Lead To Disorders?
by The wanderer 42 Replies latest jw friends
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IsaacJS2
I suspect that the Society does tend to have some harmful sideffects on people. My wife and many in her family have a list or problems. (Yippee for me...) She and her parents are all obsessive compulsive, depressive personalities. Most of the women in her family seem to have major control issues. Some express it passive aggressively, others more openly. I've noticed that all of them seem to feel entitled to tell my wife what to do and to pressure me into falling in line with things she does on a whim. The men tend to shirk responsibilities within the family, focussing on work and hobbies while leaving the kids and everything like that for the women folk to do. I think they're living in the 50s or something. They tend to get strangely "Elder-like" about some issues, but more often tend to avoid dealing with most things, leaving their wives to sort things out behind their backs.
They aren't the only families that are like this, just the examples I know best. There is a pretty infamous quote that keeps popping up on anti-Witness sites where a mental health professional specifically sites JWs as having more mental problems than other groups on average. I'd really love for someone to do an actual study on this, or to gather a list or professional opinions about it. In the meantime, my experiences suggest they do have more emotional/mental problems.
IsaacJ
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IsaacJS2
I think its partly responsible for my sexual deviancy. From the first time I heard the word fornication at age 4 I was obsessed. Looking forward to menopause or death to interupt this life long addiction.
Crumpet=cool.
(You're sort of kidding here, right?)
IsaacJ
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Handsome Dan
I'm glad someone mentioned the physiological state of jw woman, they certainly are the most depressed and oppressed of the gender in this religion
the men gloat and absorb the power that is offered them.
Crumpet I'm very sorry to hear about your sexual problem, perhaps we could meet and have a in-deft formal decision, I may be of some help ..wink,..wink.....
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minimus
The Wanderer, I've looked at a lot of your subject titles and you seem to borrow many of your questions from me.
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Crumpet
I think its partly responsible for my sexual deviancy. From the first time I heard the word fornication at age 4 I was obsessed. Looking forward to menopause or death to interupt this life long addiction.
Crumpet=cool.
(You're sort of kidding here, right?)
IsaacJ
I wish i was kidding...
Where and when Handsome Dan? LOL! I am hoping your can offer me some Brotherly advice on the matter so I can pay attention during meetings!
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Sparkplug
I think its partly responsible for my sexual deviancy. From the first time I heard the word fornication at age 4 I was obsessed. Looking forward to menopause or death to interupt this life long addiction.
Crumpet=cool.
(You're sort of kidding here, right?)
IsaacJ
I agree wholeheartedly with Crumpet on this one....but why mess up a great disorder? That is what I am saying. I keep thinking...So THIS is mid Thirties...and they say it only gets better!
Confession time...My mom would let me walk to the library and spend days at a time there. It was a long walk too (miles). So my girlfriend would go to Judy Blume...and I snuck off and went straight to the adult section as much as I could. Yeah, I wanted to learn it all. BECAUSE it was said to be so bad. Many a good book I would reread certian chapters till the pages were worn off. lol I kinda got obsessed with all the sex books. Wanted to know how to do it all. I seriously am not so sure it would be the same unless it was so forbidden and so tabu.
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nvrgnbk
HELL YES! JUST LOOK AT THE LOT OF US!
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gogetter
To all those concerned about mental problems among JW's. Please check out a book by Jerry R Bergman, Ph.D from your local library. It is entitled "Jehovah's Witnesses and the problem of Mental Illness". The publisher is Witness, Inc P.O. Box 597, Clayton, CA 94517. It will verify many of the things many of you have discussed. The book was published in 1992. It has many case histories of the JW's and is so realistic you will be able to relate to many of the situations. Hope this will be helpful.
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nvrgnbk
The Wanderer, I've looked at a lot of your subject titles and you seem to borrow many of your questions from me.
Does someone need a hug?
There there minimus(often copied, never duplicated).