jws are craziest

by cuddlepie 10 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  cuddlepie

  Got this from wwww.watchtower-observer.org so true is freaky

  However, in his Adams Versus God, Melbourne broadcaster Phillip Adams said in 1985 that, according to US studies, "Jehovah's Witnesses are more likely to be admitted to psychiatric hospitals than the general population".
  
  "According to an article in the British Journal of Psychiatry," he said, "they are three times more likely to be diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia and four times more likely to be paranoid schizophrenics.
  
  "As a writer in the American journal Free Inquiry puts it: 'Either the Jehovah's Witness sect tends to attract an excess of pre-psychotic individuals who may then break down, or else being a Jehovah's Witness is itself a stress that may precipitate psychosis.
  
  "'Possibly both of these factors operate together ...'"
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  kls

  Yes, there are posts in here some where with research that has been done showing jws have a above average in mental illness. ,,,,I wonder why,,,,,hum
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  Soledad

  'Either the Jehovah's Witness sect tends to attract an excess of pre-psychotic individuals who may then break down, or else being a Jehovah's Witness is itself a stress that may precipitate psychosis.

  many many people I knew that were schizophrenic/manic depressive. From what I knew, they were not like that before entering the Org.
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  Balsam

  Well all the ones with mental illnesses in the JW I knew were all folks raised in it from birth. So if they were prone to mental illness then being raised in the JW's certainly made it worse. I know in the congregation I was in there was 6 people with various stages of mental illness, paranoid schizophenic, schizophenis, bi-polar, and some were real bad and out of touch with reality. The believe in Satan & demons seemed to have the most frightening impact on them all. They lived in terror all the time of satan & demons. I think in these cases religion is very much a problem for these people.

  I remember one day looking around when they said "by their fruits we would know who had the truth", and seeing all these poor folks and thinking, well it is pretty obvious we don't have it. Too much mental illness, no way for folks to mentally healthy.

  Bals
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  dh

  i knew of two jw's who were paranoid schitzophrenics, one was a friend, the other a guy from the congregation i grew up in, after years of suffering they both killed themselves, the events were a few years apart and they didn't know eachother.
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  4JWY

  Paranoia will destroy ya ~ it has worked through the WTS's indoctrination of beliefs with huge numbers of folks unfortunately.

  To all who have freed themselves of the influence and are still with us, I wish you peaceful days.
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  Purza

  I tend to believe in the mental illness stuff myself. When I was an active jdub I know I used to feel like I was going insane and Prozac actually helped me. I onced talked to a JW friend who was bi-polar and suicidal and really bad off and I told him that I had heard JW's have a higher mental illness rate. He disagreed. Go figure. . . . . whatever.

  Purza
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  DanTheMan

  I never knew any schizophrenic JW's, just a lot of severely severely depressed ones. And the depression was often expressed in typical JW self-flagellating terms -

  "I just feel like I don't do enough"
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  Undaunted Danny

  The Watchtower took me from,'deans list to dumpsters' Read his story in the Maine Times [text version] They made me an hysterical hollow zombie. Q: You are billing yourself as an exit counselor for Jehovah's Witnesses. When you're out here picketing, has there been interest from people who want to leave the church?

  A: Yes, one ex-member approached me; it had taken her five years to get deprogrammed. And the pastor from this Unitarian church came over and chatted with me. She said she had counseled other Jehovah?s Witnesses who had left. Nobody likes Jehovah?s Witnesses except other Jehovah's Witnesses.

  Half the city councilors know me by name. The cops all know me as a safe person. The mental health system knows me. If they [Jehovah's Witnesses] say, this guy's crazy, he's a mental case," -- well, yeah, I?ve got a mental health history . It was caused by them.
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  Confucious

  I never suffered from depression until after JW.
  
  The problem is that JW BREEDS depression.
  
  If you are the LEAST BIT interested in REALLY doing everything, you HAVE to get depressed - because there's NO WAY to accomplish everything.
  
  It's only a matter of time before you fail.