When you have to turn off your brain and your emotions to exist within a high control group people WILL develop mental health issues. The longer you are in the group, the more serious the problems might become.
Lee Marsh
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Mental Health
by Vanderhoven7 inthis psychiatrist makes sense to me.. https://youtu.be/l5wcqc6m-gi.
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Mental Health
by Vanderhoven7 inthis psychiatrist makes sense to me.. https://youtu.be/l5wcqc6m-gi.
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stan livedeath
quite a number of ex jw's ive met over the years have health issues--mostly imagined. Mostly women
This often results in psychosomatic health problems which are very real. Not imagined. Constant stress and depression wears the body down.
Vanderhoven7
I wonder how many JWs wander around thinking just about everyone else in the congregation is happy, so there is something wrong with me and not my religion.
Nobody knew how depressed or suicidal I was. I just plastered a smile on my face and did all the things expected of an elders wife. I suspect most people are the same. In my over 20 years talking to ex-JWs they almost all say the say thing.
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Mental Health
by Vanderhoven7 inthis psychiatrist makes sense to me.. https://youtu.be/l5wcqc6m-gi.
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Vanderhoven7
Do you agree with his conclusion that most Jehovah's Witnesses are unhappy and chronically depressed?
I do. Most would deny it even to themselves. Many suffer psychosomatic health problems that are misdiagnosed or really are the symptoms of long-term undiagnosed depression turned inward.
Remember: They are not allowed to be depressed. They are God's "happy" people.
The year after year after year of sacrificing your individuality, identity, interests, education, etc is enough to make anyone depressed.
Never being good enough to make it through keeps everyone on a perpetual treadmill, constantly trying to be good enough. The repeated "soon" for the end to come, which never comes. This creates a constant anxiety about making it through when the end finally does come... if it comes in your lifetime.
And they turn to a wide range of behaviors to mask those feelings, which they aren't supposed to have because they are "happy".
People who leave often need counseling. Not just because of the impact of leaving, but also because of the terribly negative impact of living such a repressed life for years.
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Jazzbo, while I am not a fan of Bergman, he actually is an accredited therapist from a recognized university. (
M.Ed. (1971) in counseling and psychology, from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan)
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A year since I have been back
by Lee Marsh ina year ago i came back to jwd.
the 2 years before that.
when covid stated, i was diagnosed with colon cancer.
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Please stay on topic.
If you want to continue your discussion then please start your own topic
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A year since I have been back
by Lee Marsh ina year ago i came back to jwd.
the 2 years before that.
when covid stated, i was diagnosed with colon cancer.
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Diogenesister3 days ago
Thanks.
I'm currently taking part in a study aiming to detect colon cancer early in people under 55. Cancers deep inside the body can be hard to detect and symptoms can be very vague and easily batted off by your GP. That's if you get them at all, as in your case Lady Lee. So I think they're hoping to establish a regular testing regime whether you're symptomatic or not.
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A year since I have been back
by Lee Marsh ina year ago i came back to jwd.
the 2 years before that.
when covid stated, i was diagnosed with colon cancer.
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Thanks also to
ozziepost, peacefulpete, Balaamsass2, ThomasMore, Mum, and blondie
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A year since I have been back
by Lee Marsh ina year ago i came back to jwd.
the 2 years before that.
when covid stated, i was diagnosed with colon cancer.
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Thank you
AEnEm, slimboyfat, Beth Sarim, Vanderhoven7, under the radar, Sea Breeze, JeffT, BluesBrother, and Black Sheep
Nice to see familiar faces and some new ones too
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Post your mix
by LoveUniHateExams inmixes are playlists that youtube makes of your favourite music.. so i thought it would be interesting if people posted their yt playlists here.. er, i don't know how to post my playlist.. anyhoo, i guess i can just post a series of songs in multiple posts from my playlist.
😁.
https://youtu.be/bmitvsoxgai.
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My Playlist
Pentatonix https://www.youtube.com/@PTXofficial
Avi Kaplan (ex-member of Pentatonix - amazing bass)
Cher
Celine
Barbra
Phil Collins/Genesis
Andrea Bocelli
Ed Sheeran
Kind of all over the place.
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My favourite female protagonists: Ellen Ripley
by LoveUniHateExams innext is ellen ripley, played by sigourney weaver, of the alien franchise.. ripley only just beat the xenomorph in ridley scott's alien (1979).. she spends most of james cameron's aliens (1986) dealing with and overcoming her trauma.
eventually, she seriously kicks ass.. she also becomes a surrogate mommy to newt, the abandoned girl who the space marines find on lv-426.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qssrxuhfawy.
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I think you need to read the posting guideline https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/posting
What not to post
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Spam includes, but is not limited to.... multiple instances of the same post,
So far you have 4 of the same post. In 3 days!
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A year since I have been back
by Lee Marsh ina year ago i came back to jwd.
the 2 years before that.
when covid stated, i was diagnosed with colon cancer.
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I am waiting for it to be approved in Canada. it is much better than having a colonoscopy.