Posted by:
ExMoBandB
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Date: September 27, 2014 04:17PM
My personal experiences support the fact that Utah has the highest rate of tranquilizer abuse, among women.
Is Vicodan addictive? Is this one of the frequently abused drugs? My sister-in-law offered to give me some for my toothache. She told me, "It's easy to get. Your dentist will write you a prescription, and that way, you'll always have it handy. I take it for bursitis in my shoulder, headaches, cramps, and so I can sleep at night."
She named 4 names of neighborhood Mormon women who take Vicodin all the time. She said, "Everyone takes it."
Is Ambien an addictive substance? My RS pres neighbor, plus my former VT, plus the neighbor across the street, plus my best Mormon friend and almost her entire Mormon book club take Ambien every night.
I have several particularly energetic, do-it-all Mormon SAHM relatives, who constantly amaze everyone in all the busywork they can accomplish. For example, they have 8-10 children, get up at 5:00AM to jog, cook a huge family dinner every night, live in a perfectly clean McMansion, have a presidency position in the RS or the YW, are active in the PTA, sports team mother, give all kinds of church parties at their houses, maintain a cabin (cleaning, packing, cooking), look perfect, and never miss a hair salon appointment. The husbands have high church callings. Six have been mission presidents. It is exhausting just to witness all this. Still, I wanted to know how they did it all, so I asked. ALL of the women drink around 6+ glasses of diet cola every day. They say they can't live without it. One cousin takes several Exedrin (has caffeine in it). She is having heart problems, but gets right back up and continues her grueling pace, and brags about how she doesn't follow the doctor's orders. All these women feel they are blessed by God, but they must overwork themselves to pay their "debt" to God. "God will give me the strength." is their mantra. The Mormon church must judge them to be worthy of their good fortune and wealth. They must also earn the approval of their priesthood husbands.
These women are always bragging or complaining--but perhaps complaining about how busy and overworked they are is another way of bragging. I know they like to make others feel like slackers in comparison. Mormon life is a competition, for them. None of these women are very intellectual or talented or light-hearted. With all their wealth, family, health, and good looks, they should be the happiest people on earth, but I think the Mormon church takes a lot of that away.
I am not in their world. I have fewer children, am divorced and single. (A Mormon should be married, and have the priesthood in the home.) I'm a good mother, and my children have turned out great! (But they are not Mormons, anymore.) I have been the sole support of my family, and am happy with my career. (But a Mormon mother should not work outside the home.) All that yard work, playing with my children, occasional skiing, hiking, bicycling, walking the dog, is as healthy as jogging every day. (Scandalous to waste time playing, when there is work to do.) I do real charity work (instead of Mormon work). I love art and music. My accomplishments are the very ones that Mormons belittle. Away from their criticism, I now live my life with pride and happiness.
I don't have to try to be that perfect Mormon mother, anymore. I now know that this goal so impossible and frustrating, that I would probably have to take uppers and downers just to get through each day. I used to drink two mugs of coffee a week--both on Sunday morning--just to get me to church. I had to take a nap after church, to make the depression go away, before cooking our big Sunday dinner. Sometimes, I would crawl into bed with my Sunday clothes still on, and pull the covers over my head. When I left the cult, the depression magically dissappeared.
What are your thoughts and experiences about Mormon women and drugs? Depression? Competition?