Scientology: Why it didn't work for me

By Jono*

With regards to this claim:
"Scientology is the leading authority on mental health. No one does it better than us." - Tom Cruise

One of my parents studied Scientology, achieved the state of 'Clear', that is in my words all the pain associated with bad memories is released from controlling your mind, as they claim.

From www.scientology.org

If one goes Clear, will he lose his emotions?

"No, on the contrary, a Clear is able to use and experience any emotion. Only the painful, reactive, uncontrolled emotions are gone from his life. Clears are very responsive beings. When one is Clear, he is more himself. The only loss is a negative - the 'reactive' mind - which was preventing the individual from being himself."

However, later when I was a very young child with other siblings, my parent needed to be supervised for their own protection, and after being left unsupervised they took their own life, following in the footsteps of their parent. A Scientologist doctor had previously diagnosed my parent with having the equivalent of Alzheimer's and recommended a therapy called chelation. It is not widely approved of in the medical industry, and obviously did not have lasting results.

I believe as a direct result of being a Scientologist, my parent was discouraged from taking any medicine for depression which may have been genetic and encouraged to take ineffective untried therapy, resulting in their depression being left untreated. I think there is a possibility that they could have been saved had they taken medication.

Unfortunately, I will never know, or ever see them again. In my direct experience of losing my parent, if Scientology is truly the leading authority on mental health then something is very very wrong with the world.

judythpiazza@newsblaze.com

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