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  pros and cons of anti depessants?

  by Crazyguy in

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  obviously i'm having ex cult issues, family still in and a wife that's all kokoo for cocopuffs as well as our marriage isn't good.

  i would like to leave her, she has never been the kind of wife i wanted.

  anyway the stress is getting to be to much, thinking about things all the time and its effecting my work as well as otherthings.

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  Mikado

  I have to wonder what medications a lot if those previois posters are referring to.

  IF you have serious depression you basicly cannot manage it without medication.

  i have never felt or known anyone who felt like a zombie from the medication, not if the people who where genuinely ill enough that they felt like a zombie prior to the medication.

  i cannot stress enough that you cannot manage SERIOUS depression, by walking, eating well, etc etc. they may well help, but this is too big for that.

  depression is a chemical imbalance, it needs medication just as diabetes does. I have had several episodes of severe depression, I cannot imagine what my life would have been like if I hadn't taken medication . I would strongly suggest the importance of good therapy, learning to re think the automatic ways we think is vital.

  whilst anxiety and depression often go hand in hand they are totally not the same thing..

  you need to ask yourself if what you are feeling is that sense of worry, anxiousness, or more a feeling of total hopelessness, lack of pleasure, inability to sleep....

  i now take a very mild dose of a medication to control my blood pressure caused by my anxiety issues, it's worked well for me.

  this is only my journey, but I do hope it helps.

  as so many have said before, we are the walling wounded. I prefer the term survivor.
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  Torah keepers,

  by Mikado in

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  2. experiences

  has anyone ever met any members of this group?.

  i met a lovely lady who was telling me all about it.. apparently everything in the bible is literal, and it rather disconcerted me just how much i rememberd if it all.. everytime i asked do you mean that everything is literally true, apparently it is so..... she is a genuineky sincere, well meaning lady, and had a lovely time telling me all about it!.

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  Mikado

  has anyone ever met any members of this group?

  i met a lovely lady who was telling me all about it.. apparently everything in the bible is literal, and it rather disconcerted me just how much I rememberd if it all.

  everytime I asked do you mean that everything is literally true, apparently it is so....

  She is a genuineky sincere, well meaning lady, and had a lovely time telling me all about it!
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  Robin Williams passes

  by designs in

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  2. entertainment

  don't know quite what to say.

  just stunned at the news.

  comic genius and actor.. share your favorite robin williams moments.. .

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  Mikado

  I am so sorry he was that ill, so terrible to feel that is your only way.

  i am obviously totally in the minority but he freaked me out,

  I saw him in a couple of interviews were he was totally manic and he literally made my skin crawl.

  I think he could play creepy guys very well...

  on a side note many years ago a shrink told me that in his opinion suicide was the biggest fuck you ever... I tend to agree...

  but so sad, and for some reason men tend to choose ways that are more irrevocable than women... don't know why,
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  Just Curious About Something

  by EmptyInside in

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  2. friends

  sorry,couldn't think of a better title for this post,without it being long.. i was thinking this morning,if ex-jws, who were born into the group less likely to join another religion after leaving.

  vs. the witnesses who belonged to a church before joining the religion.. from my own prespective,being raised a witness,i have no intention of joining any religion.

  and it seems that born-ins are less likely to join a religion after leaving the cult.. in my own experience,i think it's religious burn-out to tell the truth.

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  Mikado

  I will never be controlled in that way again. never.
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  Atheists and JWs are on the same footing!

  by exWTslave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  atheists believe that god should stop the large-scale injustice on earth; if he does'nt, then he does not exist.

  jws believe that god will intervene sometime in the last days!.

  interestingly, both throw themselves on their own expectation of soemthing god should or will do, yet in fact something god does not have to do.

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  Mikado

  it's a funny thing, I have never told a Christian what they believe in, why do people insist on telling me what I believe ? or more relevantly what I don't believe?
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  Father denies children inheritance unless they quit Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Tiktaalik in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an article in the sydney morning herald:.

  http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/father-denies-children-inheritance-unless-they-quit-jehovahs-witnesses-and-become-catholics-20140810-102egl.html#ixzz39yziuuvf.

  "from beyond the grave, father-of-four patrick carroll continued a five-decade crusade to steer his children away from being active jehovah's witnesses and into catholicism.. mr carroll wrote into his will that his adult children were not to receive any inheritance unless they met two conditions: attend his funeral and become catholics within three months of his death.. mr carroll died in april 2012. his children attended the funeral but they did not become catholics and challenged the condition in the nsw supreme court in a bid to still receive their share of his estate.. but justice francois kunc last week ruled that mr carroll was entitled to place such conditions on his will.. the court heard that mr carroll's motivation was not so much about imposing his own beliefs but rather the fact he never approved of his children becoming jehovah's witness.. the court heard that mr carroll did not raise his children as catholics, neither he or they had attended church services when they were young and he did not enroll them in catholic schools.. but when he split from their mother lillian in 1959 she became a jehovah's witness and over the next decade the couple's four children, robyn, paulene, anthony and susan, were baptised as jehovah's witnesses.. mr carroll never approved of "their adherence to that faith", the court heard.. "[lillian's] conversion to that faith enraged mr carroll, who for the rest of his life continued to express his very strong objections to lillian's and the children's member of that faith," justice kunc said in his judgement.. the court was told that all four of his children remain active members of their congregation.. in his will, written in december 2011, four months before he died, mr carroll left more than a third of his estate to his four children "dependent upon them becoming baptised into the catholic church within a period of three months from the date of my death and such gifts are also subject to and dependent my children attending my funeral.".

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  it's seems absolutely awful and cruel to me. I suspect there were lots of other issues there.
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  Will someone, please, stop ISIS?

  by skeeter1 in

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  will anyone stop isis?by josh levs, cnnupdated 2:07 pm edt, thu august 7, 2014(cnn) -- if you're following the news about isis, which now calls itself the islamic state, you might think you've mistakenly clicked on a historical story about barbarians from millennia ago.. in a matter of months, the group seized territory in both iraq and syria and declared an islamic caliphate, celebrating its own shocking slaughter along the way.. "i don't see any attention from the rest of the world," a member of the yazidi minority in iraq told the new yorker.

  "in one day, they killed more than two thousand yazidi in sinjar, and the whole world says, 'save gaza, save gaza.'".

  in syria, the group hoisted some of its victims severed heads on poles.

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  the average Muslim does condemn this awful violence. When was the last time you went out and spoke to a mainstream Muslim?

  They are generally totally horrified by what is being done in their name.
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  Name your Top Ten or However Many you can Favorite Comedy Movies

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  started one thread serious, so thought i'd go light and easy on this one.

  so what say yee to this?

  here are mr. flippers, about in this order, but not necessarily.

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  Mikado

  can't believe nobody mentioned the dream team

  one if my favourite movies of all time!

  all MontyPython

  a fish called Wanda.

  the three amigo....infamous being just like fame only more so!!!!!
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  God listens and RESPONDS to your prayer if you know how to log on to Him! Here is the proof.

  by exWTslave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  all my family members and friends (that include some elders) advised me to divorce my wife whose only joy was to pick up fight with me for everything i do, except my grand-mother who said: when you married her, you looked for only her good pointher regular pioneering despite having an opposing family.

  for being good, you will ultimately reap something far better through her.

  stick on to her.

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  Mikado

  you know it's so awesome he answered you, while not giving a shit about all the poor kids dying daily of starvation and lack of clean drinking water.
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  For those of you that LEFT.....

  by DocHouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...did you also toss your faith as well?.

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  Mikado

  Abe, your arguments are basicly the same ones the Nostradamus nuts tend to use. find a prophecy, find something to make it fit.

  personally, I rediscovered my faith in myself once I was free.