The WT and it's views on depression. (page 2)

quellycatface

My mum is a "functioning alcoholic". She was okay before 2000, when she got reinstated.

Vidiot

I have some familiarity with depression and bipolar disorder.

Based simply on personal observation, I came to the conclusion - long before I faded - that a) JWs run a higher risk of mental health problems than the general public, and b) JWs with mental health problems experience them more acutely.

I'm quite certain the GB knows this, too.

They briefly conceded the need for qualified counseling a few years back, but (like the Pandora's Box that was opened when they briefly acknowledged child abuse back in the 90s), I suspect that too many mental health professionals began to (correctly) determinine that the WTS and its ideology were a significant part of the problem, and the GB nipped it in the bud.

Why else do you think they keep repeating the "JWs are the happiest people on Earth" mantra?

designs

An old Circuit Overseer who also partook would tell us young Elders to do 'counseling' out in Service. You can imagine what a disaster that was.

Syme

quellycatface,

I came on the edge of depression when I was serving in a distant congregation, reg pioneer, elder, but with no work at all. It was an un-natural situation, so depression would only be logical.

When I left the assignment and went back to work in my hometown, any signs of depression vanished. I got, though, some skin problems due to stress. (=cognitive dissonance, since 'awakening') Now I still struggle with those skin problems, but I feel free now (at least mentally, for the time being), and that is a huge psychological asset.

blondie

People at the kh only parrot what they hear from people they think are in the know...if the blind follow the blind they both fall in the ditch. If people think they can get a college degree from reading the publications, why not a medical degree, eh? I avoided talking about my medical illnesses to people at the KH. If they asked (nosy sobs), I congratulated them on getting a medical degree. They looked confused and I just walked away.

OUTLAW

How can you not be depressed in a religion that preaches doomsday day in and day out.....WasBlind

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wasblind

Why else do you think they keep repeating the " JW's are the happiest people on earth " mantra___Vidiot

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To convince themselves that the members are better off under the control of the Governing Body

Very much like the Southern Slave Master who also claimed the slaves as bein' the " Happiest people on earth "

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snowbird

You said it, Wuz.

I often liken the WT setup to that of a plantation.

I believe Rutherford was a sharecropping landlord.

Sylvia

scotoma

Unfortunately there really is a lot of garbage therapy. And there are garbage drugs.

There are also very good and expensive therapy and good drugs for specific mental problems.

The vast majority of people everywhere are maladapted and don't know their own minds.

But the human specialty is adaptation. Sometimes we over do it.

A book about ritual mutilation of male sex organs, fathers having sex with their daughters, stabbing infidel women in their pregnant wombs, sex addict kings with hundreds of wives, armies instructed on the proper way to humiliate the virgins they collected in battle etc. somehow doesn't seem like a person with mental problems ought to be devoting many hours of consideration.

wasblind

Ain't Andrea Yates the woman who killed her kids

after she came under the influence of a certain religous leader ????

The WT and it's views on depression.

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