Just remembered another one. So fifteen. Five of the people on my list are men and one was a victim of abuse, the other 4 men I don't know as men are not as open to talk about these things ususally.
how many in your cong had nervous breakdowns?
by highdose 58 Replies latest jw friends
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Snoozy
Gregor...lol Praying to J Hoover and flipping switches...
Snoozy
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ÁrbolesdeArabia
To be honest with you, we should really ask "Who did not have a nervous breakdown in the Congregation?" because the symptoms of a "break" manifest in so many different ways. I know the elders in the last Hall I served in, half of them had a "break" and were treating their symptoms with pain medications, Xanax because Antidepressants will turn you into a murdering creep (that's from my crazy siblings, she believed in Scientology's story they pushed Time Magazine to do in the 1990s).
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ÁrbolesdeArabia
I screwed up and did a double-post, this is good because there is a very cool article on a famous preacher who had a nervous breakdown and the symptoms were really weird. I need to find this and share it because it will show you all how strange the human body is and why JWs are very prone to having psychotic breaks! I need to find the article, starting now!!
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NewYork44M
In all my years, I never understood what a nervous breakdown was. Maybe I had a nervouse breakdown, but I just will never knew.
There were more that a few in the congregation that appeared to not be able to cope with the stress of live, so I guess they perhaps had a nervous breakdown. I never had the skill set to provide a diagnosis.
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Julia Orwell
That I know of? One, me :)
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FlyingHighNow
Nervous breakdown isn't an actual psychiatric or medical term. I have seen enough JWs become overwhelmed by the JW lifestyle and the stress of fear and constantly not measuring up. When it happened to me, my doctor told me that I was suffering from exhaustion. He said we hear about celebrities being hospitalized due to exhaustion and think, "Yeah, sure it was exhaustion." He told me it is a very real thing that happens to some people when they take on too much for too long. The JW lifestyle and dogma of fear and control do not promote either mental or physical good health.