Mary I love you :) Thank you!
I know I HEARD the admonition many times as a JW that if you are depressed you just need to go out in service more, go to meetings more, study more...that it is self induced and therefore self cured if you would just become a better JW! I was surrounded by a sea of friends seeking homeopathic remedies for their head, muscle ache and blood disorders which they themselves diagnosed and "cured" using various combinations of NATURAL or organic pills and potions...to no avail. All the while telling me that psychiatrists were evil and because they were worldly would seek to convince the JW that their religion was the cause of their depression, and every JW worth their salt knows that Jehovahs People Are Happy People and so to be unhappy must inherently be a failure on their part. And around and around they went until they lost their minds, souls, and marriages...completely.
Perhaps this is one of those things that wasnt specifically put in writing so as to allow them deniability but was SAID a lot. I wanted to show my counselor the kinds of things they write.
Thank you again!
WLD