Be honest (as I know you are), what kind of help does anybody get from their brothers and sisters at the Kingdom Hall when they have a real problem? All they get is "marked" as spiritually sick. They get lectured with scriptures and they get picked up and taken out in field service to jump start their holy spirit motor!! They don't really care about you as a real, live, hurting person. As soon as you stumble and fall or stray off like that lost sheep---instead of leaving the 99 healthy ones and going after you and carrying you back in their arms to the fold---they disfellowship you, stop praying for you and actually long for your destruction! That's my view of the "love between themselves". Am I delusional?
I can certainly related to that portion.
Suffering from clinical depression and suicidal. What was the Elders answer -attend meetings and go on field service.
They even had my wife get me out the family home because I was a "spiritual danger" to the family.
I've often said that if they had said "We'll help you get through this. Support you and family through this. Tilll you are strong again"
I could probably still be a JW. But no, it was lets get rid of him.
I have often used the parable of the "Good Shepherd", how he went out to rescue the one leaving the 99. The JW attitude is "Got lost, have you, serves you right. We're not coming to look for you, find your own way back."
That attitude above all, is what made me start to look more closely at them.
Anyway it back-fired on them out of 9 members of my family only 3 are still JW's.