Most certainly being a Jehovah's Witness I personally feel contributes greatly to mentally health issues. Anytime you can not have choices as an adult in world full of choices causes problems, even more so being a child in a would full of fun and laughter. Granted kids can not do everything they want, but they are only kids once, it is a wondrous time a time not to be thrown away.
I was raised a Witness too, I feel that most of my school years were years not of learning but of persecution. Why did I have to go through that. I could have excelled in many areas but because I was taught I had to basically hate my life in this world rather than enjoy what good things there is my life became down troden at a young age I was ageing before my time. I love my parents, but I did not love thier choices they made for me.
Shane