by metatron 7 Replies latest jw friends
The July 15 Watchtower tells you how to fade ( pg.28) It seems that many are "faithfully" serving
despite depression, post traumatic stress disorder, bipolar issues and phobias. This sort of article
should teach you that countless Witnesses are getting free by using these illnesses. They miss
meetings, skip field service and generally can get away.
Thanks, Brothers, for showing us how.
metatron
Oh yes, I experienced post traumatic stress after nearly every elder's meeting.
Yes - this seems the 'accepted' reasons for 'spirtual' weakness in activity.
Faders could even point to the article as a reason to be left alone while they deal with these issues!
Jeff
Seriously, my wife says to me : So what should I tell people who ask about you how you are? ANd I say: Tell them I have never felt better.
Honestly, I am really happier than I have been in a long time--- I have more peace, I am less unsettled, I have less conflict in life--- and I have only missed meetings for three months. Geez, at a year I'll be bottling it!
This is just another WTS attempt at making healthy people feel guilty for going to the beach on the weekend or taking longer vacations. These guys are BS artists all the way.
My husband told the elders about 2 or 3 yrs. ago when they came to see how he was doing (they haven't been back since), that he felt better now that he stopped going to meetings, etc. They didn't know what to say, so they asked him if in the future, he might come back, and he said "maybe he might." And so with that said, they left.
Now there has been one elder who is retired that goes in service on weekdays, so whenever he is on my street he'll knock on the door to say hello and invite me to the summer convention. He also came by to invite us to this year's Memorial and after I said what I said, he may never come back again! We'll see!
They are hurting so bad that they can no longer marginalize the mentally unstable as ``demonized" but need to find a way of accommodating them in a bid to keep them aboard on the head count, no matter how badly they're limping along mentally.
I know what you mean zack. I was told that leaving the organization would create a great emptiness/hole in my life. I never felt so profoundly relieved to not have to be uprooted and dragged off to meetings and service all the time. It did feel a bit weird at first but JW activities were an interrupting in my life which quickly reclaimed the time. I did feel irrationally irritable on meeting nights for a long time though. I still have instinctual distaste of those days and tend to put my worst classes / heaviest schedules on those days as sort of a natural harmony.
depression, post traumatic stress disorder, bipolar issues and phobias
The real amazing thing is how quickly these issues clear up once you quit going to the meetings!
