So I've been going to doctors for years with chronic fatigue, a condition I managed ok but which took a drastic nose dive in late 2011 to 2012 to the point where I could barely function. Work was part of the problem, so at the end of that year I left that stressful environment.
But in the meantime, for the last few years I've been going to doctors, specialists, psychiatrists and psychologists and undergoing every sort of blood test you can imagine and seeing all sorts of medical people. And today, I went to a very specialising specialists, you know, the type it takes ages to get an appointment with. In prep for this appointment I once again had every blood and urine test for thyroid, liver, immune, biochemistry, and every other thing to do with the body, so the doctor could make a diagnosis. This after years and years of tests and searching. So today I was to find out the cause of my chronic fatigue.
And here it is. I'm in almost peak physical condition. Nothing is wrong with my body. Not a leukocyte out of place. The doctor's medical opinion as a man of science with thirty years of experience and knowledge and medical science studies:
Fourteen years in a cult did this to me. Fourteen years as a JW has worn me down mentally to the point of chronic fatigue. He told me I will take years to recover from nearly 20 years' involvement with and as a Jehovah's Witness.
Man I'm down. I hoped the zillions of tests would have shown something science could treat, but not this. I'm already on medication and have been under psychiatric care, but now I know there is no answer but time and trying to get my life back on track workwise.
So there you have it. Being a JW can destroy your health. No wonder so many of them have CFS. It's their bodies acting out that something is terribly, terribly wrong.