How many of you followed the WTS direction on education years ago and have been screwed by it? (page 9)

GrreatTeacher

I finally got my 4 year degree at age 37. I'm now working on my Masters degree which you really need in education. I just can't compete without it. I'm woefully underemployed right now.

But, I was out at age 19. The real issue is that the Organization really screwed with my head and my mental health. I had a nervous breakdown at age 18 when I was disfellowshipped and didn't get help for it until a year later when I walked away after being reinstated. I started college part time and worked part time after I was married and that was all I could handle. I finished my associates degree,

Then I got pregnant. I had a beautiful baby and promptly sunk into a horrendous postpartum depression that lasted 3 and a half years. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, postpartum onset. I went back to school part time again and finished my four year degree when my son was 7.

The problem now is that I just don't have any resilience. I have done long term sub positions and they absolutely wipe me out. I need the whole weekend to recover. I now work part time as a tutor and am working on my Masters degree, but I am just exhausted. My son is in middle school and I still have to come home from work and do homework with him. He has ADHD and needs a lot of support. I'm just exhausted and I'm not even "there" yet.

Iown Mylife

hi G.T., you are carrying the load of ten people! It would be suspicious if you were NOT exhausted, like maybe i would think you might be an E.T. or something from another galaxy!

i don't know if it would help at all, but if you haven't tried multi vitamins and minerals supplementation before, give them a try.

You are a hero. Love to you!

Marina

GrreatTeacher

Thanks, Marina.

Yes, I've actually found magnesium, calcium, and vitamin D to be helpful. I take them separately in larger amounts than an all in one supplement. I tend to test deficient in vitamin D. I also take fish oil for high cholesterol and it seems to help with my mood a little.

The other issue is this perimenopause thing that has just started recently in which I'm having terrible trouble sleeping a week or so every month. And also night sweats. Ugh.

Julia Orwell

Hi great teacher, I can certainly relate in that the jw religion has permanently wrecked my mental health and impaired my ability to be a teacher. Still, you have your degree and whatever you do in the future, you can always fall back on that profession. I now work a minimum wage job (which I love) at a theme park and will do the odd day here and there as a relief teacher for a bit of extra cash and the academic rigour of engaging with students and curriculum. So even though I got my degree as a jw (one of the rare ones cuz my parents weren't jws) they still managed to screw up my career.

PaulaCaptiva

We are getting close to Social Security time and I am supporting the family because my elder husbands construction business went under in 2008. Believe me I strongly support my son getting an education!

Julia Orwell

That's great!! We have a huge push to get kids educated here in Australia, to the point where they leave school with a business certificate or half an apprenticeship if they aren't going to uni. I bet the JWs hate all the emphasis our schools put on preparing the kids for the workforce.

punkofnice

Yes!

I now get by using my charm!!

berrygerry

This, to me, (barring suicides and family disorders) is one of the saddest threads.

The absolute destruction of someone's life to pioneer for x number of years is irreprehensible.

It is vile to the n'th degree.

Julia Orwell

It is reprehensible. Even when I was a Jw I was sickened by their education bashing. I would tell the kids to get educated and then pioneer if they wanted to. As I would tell the kids: pioneering doesn't pay the bills.

Blackbird Fly

I had so much potential. ..

How many of you followed the WTS direction on education years ago and have been screwed by it?

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