Have any Jehovah’s witnesses experienced panic/anxiety attacks?

To the ones who were born into it as a child?

I know the PO’s daughter in my congregation did- BIG TIME! She actually blacked out and had short term memory loss! She was constantly being pressured to do more for the organization and put aside her “fleshly desires” to get married. At the age of 26 and after many suitors came and went (thanks to her father), she finally broke down! After she recovered, her father let her marry the first guy who came along. Now I hear she’s unhappy because this guy is just as controlling as her father was!

Sad…

I can name at least a dozen people in my former congregation who are on some type of prescription anti- depressant medication due to chronic depression and/or anxiety!

NAOMI’S CORNER——ADVICE FOR CHILD WITH ANXIETY ATTACKS

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