I was wondering what made you join
Adolescence and early adulthood were painful, difficult years for me, nobody and I mean nobody who knew me then would have refered to me as being "well-adjusted". JW's gave me a sense of belonging and security that I desperately wanted and in truth I was less neurotic as a JW than I was before I joined or am now.
Even though I was 22 at the time, I really was a child, not a critical thinker or mature person at all, just a confused, lonely individual in need of structure and black and white answers. And I don't claim to be the most mature 30 something now either. I have a very difficult time accepting the cold realities of life in this world, the first and foremost cold reality being my own mortality. I craved certainty. I still do, but I know it's not there, which is driving me in two directions - growth on one hand and despair on the other. Despair is winning a lot of the time lately.
I was so ripe for JWism that it seems inevitable that I fell into it, I was the quintessential cult recruit. One of the things that I try to get across to people on this board is that yes, JW families can be very weird and growing up JW sucks but JW's don't have these markets cornered by any stretch.