by The wanderer 42 Replies latest jw friends
Numinous:
You are right. I have O.C.D. It started in the early '80s and got worse. I definitely attribute it to the religion (the "if you step on a crack you'll break your back" mentality). I am not on medication but I have gotten somewhat better as the years have gone by. I attribute the improvement to my releasing the oppressive load of this cult-like religion from my mind.
LHG
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).
So I so am about to open canned worms! BUT.. I have noticed this also. The only thing is minimus does not seem to load his questions. If he asks a question, it does not seem so confrontational. Maybe we have just grown accustom to Min.... And Wanderer, I still have something to say on the interracial thread...just need some time to process.
Yes. MY PARENTS caused me to have a disorder due to GUIDANCE by the WTBS. So, my parents felt I was a chubby kid, so they put me on a diet. I lost weight. Well, I continued to lose weight at one point because I was growing up, the baby fat was going away. Then my parents decide that I am losing too much weight, they wanted to me to be 105. Some days I was 103.5. If my dad decided I looked too thin that day, he would tell me to get on the scale. If I was under 105, they would force me to eat 10 cookies at 10:30 at night (After the TMS), then they would tell me to get on the scale the next morning, low and behold, I didn't gain weight from those cookies. So, the same thing would happen the next day until I reached 105. Keep in mind, I was homeschooled, pioneering, and working part time. No wonder why I didn't gain any weight, yet they never considered the fact that I was just so busy...so this process continued for a couple of years. Then I decided to take control of my life....and my weight.
I decided that I wanted to be bulemic. Got the idea from a friend. It started when I was 17 and lasted until I was 23. I broke blood vessels in my eyes all the time. I wanted to get back at my parents, why did I develope this eating disorder? Why did enjoy being 87 lbs? Why did that make me so happy....absurd.
I became a very self destructive person for awhile there...thank goodness I came to my senses. I have a life to live. I have children who I want to see grow up. See, when you had an eating disorder, it stays with you the rest of you life, I ve just learned to have some self control.
Nikki
Dear Minimus:
"The Wanderer, I've looked at a lot of your subject titles and you seem to borrow many of your questions from me."—minimus
If that is the case, it is not done with deliberate intent it just so happens
that many of the questions created happen to cross over because of
common experiences.
For the record, I create my own topics of discussion without being a "copycat".
Respectfully,
The Wanderer
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.
My mother did the same with me and I would head straight for the adult books - did you ever find the Judy Blume one - Wifey! Also read Summer Sisters - thats really good.
Does Being A Jehovah’s Witness Lead To Disorders?
This is like asking if being dead leads to zero active brain cells.
NO. It cannot LEAD to disorders-
Being a JW IS a disorder.
I'm glad you bolded your statements. And I like the way you change styles. Now I can understand what you really mean, The Wanderer.
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.My mother did the same with me and I would head straight for the adult books - did you ever find the Judy Blume one - Wifey! Also read Summer Sisters - thats really good.
Truly soul sisters...lol Actually, I skipped the Judy Blume for the most part. When I should have been reading that, I was on Clan of the Cave Bear (Wore that book out heavy breathing) and Oh the Karma Sutra. Followed by The far Pavillions and the Winds of War. War and Rememberance. Oh and how about the spiritual books on Tantric "Love" and all the self help books. I tell you what...I sure did not need to be let into that library. I did see that the forbidden Karma Sutra was not at all what I thought. I guess because it was so educational. It had more on self care. Cleanliness, and healing things. I have even bought my daughter it seeing she is into teen years and it has a lot of advice on taking care of yourself as a female. Plus it has a twist of the Middle East so she is more apt to find it not so "lame".
"We Must...We must...We must increase our bust!" You go girl!
Well for me it made go on anti-depressants, atempted suicide 3 time and I was sent in the pyscho ward at 2 different times for a few weeks. I divorced and remarried the same women after a 4 year seperation. And today I am now happy one bit, yes I have a house and two lovely boys, but I am a now emotionaly troubled ever since, I was DA then re-instated now inactive for almost 2 years, and thinking that at 40 I don't want to stay in a house where my wife continues with witnessing and not wanting to have a normal life. So that is what I became of all of the WT bull that was feed into me. I wasted 13 years of my life...
I prophecy that anyone hoodwinked into JW baptism not knowing the full effects of their insistence on closed mindedness, will, on leaving experience negative lifelong psychological traumas.
