Emotionally blackmailing an acutely mentally ill person!

by serenitynow! 20 Replies latest jw friends

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  serenitynow!

  So my sister recently got out of the hospital after being suicidal and expressing a lot of delusional thoughts. She is doing a lot better, but she is by no means back to her normal self. My sister is an exJW, technically just inactive, but she reads the several versions of the bible and prays. She also is not like me, in that she does not involve herself in apostate activities.

  Anyway my sister spoke with our very hardcore JW aunt on the phone a week ago. My sister mentioned perhaps moving to Ohio close to where my aunt lives. My aunt stated that she would only help her if she went back to the meetings and out in field service regularly.

  This made me so mad! So if my sister is not a JW my aunt won't give a crap about her? That is sick! I was also really angry because my sister is still pretty fragile emotionally. Oddly enough, my sister was not that bothered by it. She told my aunt that she has her own relationship with Jehovah.

  I swear, if I talk to my aunt I will be addressing this issue. I hate the way they are with mentally ill people.
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  NewChapter

  These stories always disgust me. I hope your sister is doing better.

  NC
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  ziddina

  Yeah, the corporate-sales-force-mentality that is displayed in their total heartlessness has always amazed me...
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  wasblind

  Hugs to Serenity and sister,

  Jesus showed unconditional love

  he died for believers and non believers

  When a Jehovah's Witness do for you, it's with

  conditions

  And they got the nerve to call this love
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  ziddina

  [Hi, Was Blind!!]
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  FlyingHighNow

  One of the biggest things on my list of things that made me go hmmm, was how cruelly and dangerously mentally ill were dealt with in the congregation. I saw a good ten of them disfellowshipped and I remember being very grieved by it. The reason my sister decided that I was an apostate was because I told her it was dangerous for untrained men, elders, counseling and disfellowshipping severely mentally ill and depressed witnesses. I told her that no doctor would encourage the family and friends of a person suffering a mental illness to shun them. That to do so would be malpractice.
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  Azazel

  They (Schmelders) woudnt accept i had unmedicated clinical depression , they refused to talk to my Doctor and treated it as a Moral deficiancy and DF me for my actions.

  The official line from the GB is if the person ( with mental health issues)is well enough to hold down a job but cannot provide emotionally , spiritually for his family then he is not fit to be a JW. So if i had let everything collapse and be living on the street they would have had compassion?

  Those men beat a sick sheep(me) when i was ill and needing their help the most.They cannot blame me for becoming a goat.

  I feel so sad for your sister serenitynow! please hang onto her i know she needs you , ive been and still am there just no one will give me a chance to heal. God bless you.

  Merry Christmas

  Az
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  FlyingHighNow

  Serenity, I hope your sister will see, as so many of us have--that God would not want his children treated so cruelly. 1 Corinthians 13:4-10

  Especially this part: 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

  8 Love never fails.
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  Black Sheep

  It sounds like she still thinks the bOrg is, or might be, god's mouthpiece. If that is the case, try and fix it.
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  WTWizard

  Going to boasting sessions to be hounded and harassed? That is often the source of the problem. You go there, and hear that you are not doing good enough to hope to live. And field circus is just as often the source of the problem--wasted time, having to put on a show for others, and all those stupid rules add to problems.

  I think I know who really needs the medication (Thorazine)--and it's not the patient. The religion.