Posts by KelleyBlair

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What TV shows couldn't you watch as a JW Kid?

by WTLies in

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we had a whole list of shows we were not allowed to watch including 'speed racer', you'll never guess why.

it was beacuse in the theme song it says "he's a demon on wheels" but then my mother was a jw fanatic lol.

william

KelleyBlair

You know when people ask me if I have seen certain movies or TV shows and I say no they can't understand why. I know when I left the organization I went out and rented I don't know how many movies of stuff I wasn't allowed to watch, even bought all the Disney movies for my daughter, lol. but I find it funny how most of us were allowed to watch Star Trek and how most of us refer to us being in the Borg. I guess we could all relate to the show, lol. Nice thread for a change too guys thanks.

Kelley

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Medication for depression

by Dizzy Cat in

a little advise if possible.. i do suffer on and off from depression and am at present engaging in a warfare to overcome these problems, as unfortunately i have become bogged down with negativity again.. have any of you here used medication prescribed by your gp and if so, was it effective for you?

also, did you suffer any side effects from the use of the medication?.

i am interested as my gp has offered to put me on a course of anti-depressants, but to say i am fearful, is to understate how i feel about the use of prescribed drugs.

KelleyBlair

Thought this link might be good.

http://www.ivillagehealth.com/features/eatforwellness/articles/0,11299,411884_412896,00.html

Kelley

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Ted Jaracz - the accused

by Nathan Natas in

at the silentlambs march in brooklyn ny on september 27, 2002 a woman made a public statement which began, .

i'm pat garza, and i'm here today because i was raped by theodore jaracz when i was a little girl, in the city of los angeles, he was district servant.

there are two boys; their initials are "m.v.

KelleyBlair

This should be on all the news stations. People everywhere should be told of the terrible things that the organization is allowing or promoting and how it affects their members.

Dave

Thanks for your post to the board. I feel honored that I got to meet Pat at the March, we stayed at the same hotel. It was a major thing for her to get up there and tell a part of her story. I too was abused in the same way (SRA) and it was very healing for me to see her strength. Please tell her that Kelley says hello and I'm thinking of her. I am so tired of the different ones having doubt about this kind of abuse. I do understand why there is so much talk about it, because it is so unbelievable to think that these things can really happen, but the fact is that they do. I have met other besides Pat that were abused like this. I was so impressed how together Pat appeared for all that she has been through. I might add to the others to that not all of the memories that I have were surpressed and there are ways of proving SRA recovered abuse. I knew a woman that had remembered through therpay an event were she had a nail hammerd into her side. She did have a scar there but they went a step further and did a scan of her side and when they did they did in fact find a nail. They did surgery and removed it. My point is that until proven gulity you assume that a victim is a victim. If you can say that the customer is always right then why can't we say the victim is always right until proven other wise? Terrible things do happen to people. Once again please tell Pat that there are ones backing her even if she doesn't know it. I'm proud of her and it isn't for anyone to judge another person or their attorney for what they deem appropiate for their case or not. And the thing about Bill he already knew of the certain ones that were going to be speaking and what they were going to say. I big hand to Bill too, he is a wonderful man to be helping all of us. Ok that was my 2 cents, lol.

Kelley

Oklahoma

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More Silentlambs Pics

by jst2laws in

i will try to come back later and give editorial comments.

a familiar family.

group growing as we get ready.

KelleyBlair

Hey
You covered my face when you made that circle, lol. I'm the one that is at the front holding up the lamb, same side your on. This was the best thing ever!!! I loved being there with all of you. It was so healing. I look foreword to March with all of you again and everyone else that missed but were there in spirit.

Kelley

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Medication for depression

by Dizzy Cat in

a little advise if possible.. i do suffer on and off from depression and am at present engaging in a warfare to overcome these problems, as unfortunately i have become bogged down with negativity again.. have any of you here used medication prescribed by your gp and if so, was it effective for you?

also, did you suffer any side effects from the use of the medication?.

i am interested as my gp has offered to put me on a course of anti-depressants, but to say i am fearful, is to understate how i feel about the use of prescribed drugs.

KelleyBlair

Hey DizzyCat

You know when I was on med's I gained 40lbs in less than one month. I have had a terrible time losing weight even now since I have been off med's (off for 8 yrs) because it damaged my metabolizism, it slow it down so much that now I have a real hard time losing wieght. I also have highblood pressure and other major health problems associated with the long term affects of taking all of those medications. At one time they had me on Thoriazine 700mg - 20mgs will put a 100lb dog down for a week, I learned how to cope with that much med's. My daughter was a baby when I was on that and I didn't have any help from my mom because she was pioneering at the time and couldn't take off to help me out (you know "priorities", lol). Is my opinion but from what I have studied in college and on my own most of the things that people are diagonosed with are just labels for just not dealing with underlying issues. Let me explain or clarify what I mean. We have all heard that stress can cause heart attacks and ulcers, headaches, etc. If you we were able to deal with the emotional and psychological issues that we face then we would be alot more healthy and would live longer too. I have heard "I have a chemical inbalance" but the question should be why do I have a chemical imbalance? Yes our body get thrown off and we experience depression, panic attacks and etc., but our bodies are designed to learn how to compensate. But when it does that it, it also throws off other areas when trying to compensate. So if we can learn to deal with what is causing the imbalance then we are actually one step ahead. But doing this is a lot hardier than just taking a pill. It is a lot easier to take a pill or "put a bandaide over a gun shoot wound" than putting forth the effort to fixing the problem. I don't mean to sound self rightouse because it is very hard for me to do things like this to, lol. But it makes it alot easier if we have help (therapy, friends, diet, excerise, messege boards, lol). I hope some of this makes sense. I do a lot better talking out loud then typing lol I think faster than I can type, lol. Good Luck and take care of yourself.

Kelley

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Medication for depression

by Dizzy Cat in

a little advise if possible.. i do suffer on and off from depression and am at present engaging in a warfare to overcome these problems, as unfortunately i have become bogged down with negativity again.. have any of you here used medication prescribed by your gp and if so, was it effective for you?

also, did you suffer any side effects from the use of the medication?.

i am interested as my gp has offered to put me on a course of anti-depressants, but to say i am fearful, is to understate how i feel about the use of prescribed drugs.

KelleyBlair

Dizzycat,

By the way I thought you should know that I do work in the mental and social service field doing counseling. Just wanted you to know that this also an educated opinion too, lol. Good luck with what you dealing with and if you need to talk I'm here for you.

Thanks

Kelley

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Medication for depression

by Dizzy Cat in

a little advise if possible.. i do suffer on and off from depression and am at present engaging in a warfare to overcome these problems, as unfortunately i have become bogged down with negativity again.. have any of you here used medication prescribed by your gp and if so, was it effective for you?

also, did you suffer any side effects from the use of the medication?.

i am interested as my gp has offered to put me on a course of anti-depressants, but to say i am fearful, is to understate how i feel about the use of prescribed drugs.

KelleyBlair

Dizzycat,

I have been on every kind of antidepressant and antipsychoic that there is on the market. I had many doctors put me on so much shit it is unbelievable. I was diagnosed everything you can imangine too. It wasn't until I stumbled across one doctor that told me that he wasn't going to give me any med's without me going to therapy. When I started going to therpay I started dealing with my depression and all the other crap. I have been off med's for the past 8 yrs. After experiencing all that I did I decided that I wanted to go into the mental health field and show these people how to work with people that have depression and other psych problems. This is my opinion only ok "medication can be just a bandaide for a gunshoot wound" you have to clean the wound out before it will get better. Now I'm not saying that medication can't be good but I feel like and from the experience that I have had as a patient and a professional medication is only good when you use it along with therapy. Depression doesn't have a quick fix. It takes a lot of work and understanding yourself to be able to manage depression. I know I missed out alot of my life by being so medicated. I would encourage you to checking into therapy and if necessary medication along with it. We as ex-jw's we kind of have a type of co-dependancy, meaning we have learned to rely on something to make us alright. I hope that this doesn't sound unkind by saying this. I have met different ones that have to take meds but almost all that I have worked with just needed therpay and behavioral modification to be able to cope with depression. Well this is my 2 cents, lol.

Kelley

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Attack, attack, attack

by bomatt6 in

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it seems that all that you apostates can do is attack and call names when others don't agree with you.. so hey, what do we expect from evil doers.. you are not good people!!!!!.

you are bad people.. .

so attack, attack, atttack the apostates.

KelleyBlair

Pray to Jehovah for forgiveness then confess to the local elders.

From my memories I thought you were suppose to bend over for the elders, lol.

I know I bent over and took one for Jehovah on many occasions and all so one for the team, lol.

Kelley

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Attack, attack, attack

by bomatt6 in

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friends

it seems that all that you apostates can do is attack and call names when others don't agree with you.. so hey, what do we expect from evil doers.. you are not good people!!!!!.

you are bad people.. .

so attack, attack, atttack the apostates.

KelleyBlair

Bomatt6

I love this board, its a place where even you can express your own mind away from the borg. Use your god given conscience to make desisions for yourself. It's a healthy thing. The WBTS is always talking about "new light" and this is it !!! It's called reality !!! There is alot of corruption within the organization and they need to be held accountable for their actions, if there is a judgement day I would hate to be them.

Kelley

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Some Pics - More To Come (1)

by Larry in

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KelleyBlair

Hey

That's me in that pic, I'm second from the end standing by John, lol.

Kelley