Posts by BackRoomBilly

i have great respect for other country's culture but the question is: how far should we tolerant extremist sport that glorify pain and suffering as a price of achievement?

what is your reactions?

Mothers' Day and JWs

by XJW4EVR in

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after my mom died, my aunts and i were going through her personal belongings for my dad.

late that night, in one of the last boxes we went through, i found a mother's day card that i had made for her when i was in first grade.

even though mother's day was a forbidden holiday, she kept that card for all those years.. i wonder, in spite of their surface indifference, how many jw mothers wish that they could participate in mothers day, at best, or resent it, at worst?.

BackRoomBilly

This whole thread makes me sad.

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JW views on Mental Health & Counseling

by Confuzzled in

i am considering getting couples counseling for the jw boyfriend and i. he's open to it.

he got help himself for an issue recently, but it was in the short term, and it went well for him.

i want to know if we started going regularly, and his mentor got wind of it, what are the jw views on mental health help?

BackRoomBilly

XPETERX - I know a lot of Witnesses who are on antipsychotics or had taken in the past.Dunno why this happens BUT some have mental problems indeed.

Dude... Are you serious, You "Dunno why this happens"?

How about the fact that it is an abusive, self serving mind control cult that rips families apart, forces parents to watch children die. Do you think that might have anything to do with why you know a lot of Witnesses who are on antipsychotics of had taken in the past... or do you still Dunno?

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JW views on Mental Health & Counseling

by Confuzzled in

i am considering getting couples counseling for the jw boyfriend and i. he's open to it.

he got help himself for an issue recently, but it was in the short term, and it went well for him.

i want to know if we started going regularly, and his mentor got wind of it, what are the jw views on mental health help?

BackRoomBilly

Sad but true- When I was a sophomore in high school (1988), I was in a typing class and occasionally the teacher would give us free typing time. I had been feeling pretty crappy and I just started typing whatever was floating through my mind that day. Well long story short... I accidental left the paper in my back pocket instead of throwing it away like I should have done. My Grandmother stumbled across it while sorting laundry and it wasn't pretty. Among a few other things, I mentioned that I hated life and I was planning on shooting myself.

My Mom and Grandmother freaked out and decided to take me to a child psychologist. I told him all about being forced to be a Jehovah's Wittiness and what life was like. I told him that all they talk about is the world's end and how everyone was going to die except them. I explained to him about the generation of 1914, how they would be alive to watch Jehovah kill all non JWs which I most certainly was. I told him how I was forced to go to the kingdom hall on Tuesdays Thursdays and Sundays, Study with some guy on Wednesdays, and go door to door on Saturdays. I hated all of it and I was miserable. I figured that if Jehovah was going to kill me anyway, I would just expedite things a little to ease my suffering.

In my one and only session, that man completely changed my outlook on life. He reassured me that the JWs 1914 generation thing was just hype and a few other things he thought were bogus. My Mother and Grandmother went to talk to him privately after my session and I'm not sure what he told them but they came out pissed.

Not another word was spoken of the whole ordeal including my mental state. I guess they would rather me kill myself than to blaspheme their precious kingdom hell. -Ryan