hi everyone, the guy i'm currently dating suffers from social phobia and it's beginning to affect our relationship.
does anyone have any experience dealing with this?
i have to admit this is all new to me, most of the guys i've dated are pretty normal, but this one seems to need some extra care.
Baby steps would be my recommendation.
You say I think you should go to a therapist. He thinks, I have to call a stranger, I have to go to a strange place, I don't know what to say, I can't do this ......
instead
Try, if I find a therapist that will meet with both of us and come to your house would you meet with him. That is only 1 step for him. Still a big step but much less to tackle.
i kind of understand the "never made the real commitment" part, but isn't learning the "truth" for 15 to 20 years, and going out into the "world" as opposed to committing,... the same as choosing to not accept jehover's (aka wts) ways and be with the brothers and sisters in union?.
why is the shunning treated different?
is it because, there's always hope by the parents, that they will come around?, etc.. .
When I was studying, the women I studied with was telling me about a couple in the hall that I knew. This couple had started attending the Hall, the wife was baptised but had left many years before, the husband had never studied. They had pre-marital sex. The girl was publically reproved and not allowed to answer questions at meetings. The wife then said to me that they couldn't do anything to the husband since he wasn't baptised. She seemed sad about that. Such a soap opera
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1342581.0.arson_attack_on_jehovahs_witness_hall.php.
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only the walls of a jehovah's witness hall are left standing after an arson attack.. five fire crews tackled the blaze at the kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses, watling street, dartford, at 11.30pm on april 19..
Wouldn't Insurance be paying for this and not the WW Fund?
which is fine by me.
i couldn't help but chuckle when i heard they call it the "fairy tale wedding"
And the Baptists finally stopped boycotting them. I am sure they'll be boycotting again.
hi, long time no see.
i am in a cultural anthropology class now and any info.
you can give me for my paper would be appreciated.
I trust no one. I fear group think. I cringe at social events. I avoid spending time with people.
My Sanity, almost my life...
does anybody take this stuff?
i took my first pill today and have decided i'd rather be depressed.
what a horrible day!
I take lexapro with wellbutrin. A little gift from the Jehovah Witnesses. When I started on lexapro, i took half a pill for the first week and then went to a whole pill. I was very sleepy from the pill so my doctor added the Wellbutrin to balance it out. It seems to be a pretty good combination for me. My doctor made it very clear that these meds are not one size fits all and that if I didn't feel right on them that we would try something else. The worst thing to do would be to say these don't work and never return to the doctor. They are will to help but can't if they don't know whats wrong.
i work for a fairly large corporation.
our company is establishing a new tobacco policy where smokers and tobacco users are no longer allowed to use tobacco in any form, either cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chew, or snuff, anywhere on company property.
this includes inside or outside the building, the parking lot, or even in your own personal vehicle while in the parking lot.
I quite smoking and found the lozenges worked best because they last a long time. I haven't figured out how you get off the lozenges but I guess its better than smoking. The problem is that these products are meant for people that are going to quite smoking so I am not sure that you can suggest them to be used only during office hours. Although, I know many smokers who will use such products if they know they will be somewhere they can't smoke. Chewing gum and straws may help. I would also recommend that if they are not going to quite then to get out at lunch for a smoke otherwise you'll have some miserable afternoons there.
as i sit here with pinkeye farmcat eyes (this is one of the worst things i've ever been through lol it's horrible!
please send me 'aw merf, get better soon' vibes and a cyber hot-toddy.
gawd, i'm a whiner today.
make sure you throw out your eyeshadow brushes and any cosmetics that could be contaminated. You don't want to get it again after you clear it.
with the recent birth of a jw sextuplet "litter" .
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/169562.
possible need for blood transfusions clashes with jehovah's witness belief.
Non-blood treatment is way superior in every situation and many doctors in hospitals worldwide are calling it the gold standard," Ruge said from his office in Georgetown, Ont.
This statement is pretty bold. Although, I have heard individual witnesses claim this, the WTBS, I think has always tried to say this without ever saying this.
Non-blood treatment or fractionalized blood treatments serve a medical purpose but statistically it is not better medicine in all situation at this point. I would guess in court cases the WTBS denies stating that it is better medicine. This would probably be a useful statement for victims that are sueing the WTBS over dead loved ones.
I know my inlaws think that it is better medicine and my brother-in-law was quite shocked to learn that when his mother was sick there wasn't some magic solution to her blood loss. The problem is that if relatives later sue for damages, it is tough to show from there articles that they state that it is better medicine. This statement comes right out and shows that is what they teach. Seems pretty foolish to me. I would think if a corporation lied to someone and that lie led to their death, they could get their pants sued off. With statements like these seems even a Worldly person who read those statements and believed them could sue if a problem arose.
