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daniel-p
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Dissociative Identity Disorder and Therapy
by writerpen injust wondering if anyone has experience with this or knows an x-jw who has been diagnosed.
after years of trying to un-do everything through countless therapies, it appears this has been the problem all along.
i sit with my new psychologist, an expert in dissociative disorders, and she has all the jw lingo down, which tells me she's treated other x-jw's.
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daniel-p
creativhoney, that sounds like good advice. I really cant understand how everyone would be able to have the same exact kind of disroder when we are all so different. I think not using labels is also a good way to help keep the "copycats" at a minimum.
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Revealed at last: My full bio, picture and why I am here!
by kurtbethel in.
hope you found it interesting.
note: this is my post #1914, so naturally all of the above is invisible.
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Dissociative Identity Disorder and Therapy
by writerpen injust wondering if anyone has experience with this or knows an x-jw who has been diagnosed.
after years of trying to un-do everything through countless therapies, it appears this has been the problem all along.
i sit with my new psychologist, an expert in dissociative disorders, and she has all the jw lingo down, which tells me she's treated other x-jw's.
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daniel-p
Yes, they used to call this multiple personality disorder (MPD), and during the nineties it seemed like every other sister in the congregation had it. Both my MOTHER and my SISTER had this and needless to say it made many years growing up hell.
Magically, their disorders eventually dissapeared.
One thing I noticed during those years is that it's contagious. When one came out with it, another came out with it, until everyone was clamoring for attention about the supposed histories of abuse, using their various personalities to impress upon everyone else the traumatic "memories." It got to the point where you didn't know what to believe anymore, and believe me, at first I wanted to believe everything they said... this was my mother and sister after all. But today I have no confidence that the abuses they claimed to suffer did indeed happen. This is after seeing the entire arc of the fruition and dissolution of their disorder, and hints from them that certain tales they told may have been distorted.
But anyway, that was my experience living with familiy members with MPD. Not saying there's no merit to the disorder... I'm sure they have a much better handle on it these days.
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Our journey from Gilead to Bethel ...
by DocBob in... only took about 15 minutes.
gilead and bethel are towns in maine, right on route 2. from bethel we proceeded to paris and norway (maine).
all in all, it was a nice drive..
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daniel-p
They have Mexico up there, too.
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A Weakness of the Information Age
by AllTimeJeff ini love the overall direction the world is taking right now thanks to technology and esp the internet.
the world is a much smaller place.
we can now have instant commuinication and know what is going on in the world at any given time.. perhaps its a happy accident that the internet has evolved into a cheap, sometimes free platform for news distribution.
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daniel-p
What is fascinating to me is how blogs and social networking is affecting traditional news gathering.
The problem is that most of it does not seem to be news gathering, but news repeating and commenting. Instead of a world of more news gatherers and makers, we have an endless and poor-quality supply of pundits propigating cheap sentiments and opinions and offering the lamest of platitudes to as quickly assign or categorize such news its proper prejudicial place.You're right, the world is smaller with the Internet; but ideas are also smaller, and imaginations smaller, as everyone imitates each other into a daisy-chain of cheap cultural references.
One well-read issue of Harpers will give you more worth-while thinking than three months worth of Internet clicking.
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A Weakness of the Information Age
by AllTimeJeff ini love the overall direction the world is taking right now thanks to technology and esp the internet.
the world is a much smaller place.
we can now have instant commuinication and know what is going on in the world at any given time.. perhaps its a happy accident that the internet has evolved into a cheap, sometimes free platform for news distribution.
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daniel-p
The need to assimalate and meaningfully categorize so much more information means we will do less and less thinking about it, out of necessity. That's not a good thing, because well-rounded and deep thinking can only come through ponderance, and that king of thing doesn't happen in an age where everyone's attention span is reduced.
In fact, its specifically why I have started subscriptions to some of my favorite magazines, and come that much closer to closing my home Internet connection.
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Psychology of Losing Faith
by daniel-p ini found this a very interesting article, concerning the psychological stresses involved in losing ones' faith (the title doesn't really do it justice):.
an atheist in the pulpitpublic identity and private belief are never more at odds than when a preacher loses his faith.
by bruce grierson, published on january 01, 2008 - last reviewed on april 11, 2008james mcallister, a 56-year-old lutheran minister in the midwest, was working on his sunday sermon one thursday afternoon last summer.
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daniel-p
Have you heard of William James' book Varieties of Religious Experience? It's a really good read about what goes into a person's (as opposed to an organization's) religious outlook...a real classic.
I have it sitting on my shelf. Have yet to read it! I also heard some of John Dewey's works in this vain as well. I find that a lot of the older American writers (e.g. Emerson, Thoreau) approached the topic of the nature of faith better than today's writers with their bite-sized platitude-filled paperbacks.
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Feb 15 2010 WT Questions From Readers
by garlic81 inthe article can be listened to from jw.org.
there is more than one question.
the first is about rebaptism.
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daniel-p
I have heard of common situations where a couple might take in a man or woman as essentially a roomate because its so expensive to find housing. Or because someone lost their job, or otherwise needs help. My own family has done this several times. What about them? If a couple in the congregation can't take in either a male or female, where do they go? What about looking after the "widows and the orphans" for Christ's sake?
This religion has become so pharisaical its beyond belief.
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Psychology of Losing Faith
by daniel-p ini found this a very interesting article, concerning the psychological stresses involved in losing ones' faith (the title doesn't really do it justice):.
an atheist in the pulpitpublic identity and private belief are never more at odds than when a preacher loses his faith.
by bruce grierson, published on january 01, 2008 - last reviewed on april 11, 2008james mcallister, a 56-year-old lutheran minister in the midwest, was working on his sunday sermon one thursday afternoon last summer.
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daniel-p
But I choose to believe.
How do you choose to believe?
This has stumped me also. As I explained in my memoirs, when I was going through my crisis of faith, it was like it was shattered into a thousand pieces, and no matter how hard i tried I wasn't going to be able to put it all back together again, either for the comfort of others or myself... it was a permanent change in me, as traumatic initially as the loss of a limb.
