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Study: 'Toxic Perfectionism' Major Part of LDS Women's Depression
KSL.com ^ | Feb. 1, 2013 | KSL.com

Posted on 02/14/2013 3:33:33 PM PST by fattigermaster

OREM —Striving for perfection may be driving some female members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to depression, one researcher says.

Utah Valley University professor Kris Doty looked at depression among LDS women, finding that "toxic perfectionism" was one major factor of depression reported by the group. The other four factors, Doty found, were genetics, history of abuse, family relationships and feeling judged by others.

Over a one-year period, Doty and her colleagues looked at clinically diagnosed depressed women who identified as LDS. Seven of the women were using multiple medications to treat their depression, 19 were on only one medication and 10 had participated in therapy. Women in the study said the church's teachings about perfection led to painful misinterpretations wherein many women believed they could not make mistakes. This belief, Doty said, caused them to "become hyper-competitive and anxious."

At a symposium on the topic Thursday, study participants said church leaders were reminding women —especially mothers —that they are not required to be perfect.


TOPICS: Other Christian; Other non-Christian; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: inman; lds; mentalhealth; mormon
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To: svcw
I wonder what kids of diet he had.

I do NOT like the way is thread is going!!!



81 posted on 02/16/2013 12:25:36 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Tau Food

I’d leave #54 to MythBusters; but I’d be in a REAL quandry trying to figger out WHICH half I could play in #59!


82 posted on 02/16/2013 12:28:21 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Utah Binger

See this lever?

SHift it when I tell you...


83 posted on 02/16/2013 12:29:27 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ravenwolf
The Mormon haters try to make it look like the Mormon Women are inferior, so what does that have to do with Mormon teaching?

BINGO!

84 posted on 02/16/2013 12:30:54 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Vendome

Calling out “To Whom it May Concern” might work.


85 posted on 02/16/2013 12:32:52 PM PST by polkajello
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To: ravenwolf

Again, you use the phrase “mormon haters” and have yet to provide one example of this illusive hate.


86 posted on 02/16/2013 12:35:57 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: Elsie

;-)
I bet he ate all kiNds of kids.


87 posted on 02/16/2013 12:37:46 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: Elsie
HOT drinks are banned; not COLD coffee. But HEY!; it ain't up to ME to tell them how to interpret what all those words mean.

A practical reason coffee and tea drinking was discontinued after they moved to Utah is it's too dry and cold to grow there. They wanted to minimize their contact with non-believers so those habits had to go.

88 posted on 02/16/2013 12:51:08 PM PST by Reeses
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To: Elsie

You CANNOT just layout a claim like this and then not tell the jurors what you are talking about; as they’ll begin to ignore you.


If the accuser can do it why can,t I? and do you suggest that every thing you hear on msm is to be taken for the gospel?

I take most accusations with a grain of salt, especially in religion.

If i heard a Catholic belittling Catholic women i would think his agenda would be to make the Catholic Church look bad and if he was not willing to denounce the Church why would i take any thing he said serous.

And i would be the same regardless of what Church it is, it reminds me of the scripture.

_——————————————————————————
For where the carcass is, the vultures will gather.


Also i usually take up for the down trodden.


89 posted on 02/16/2013 12:54:24 PM PST by ravenwolf
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
That's what a works based religion will lead to.

Galatians 5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

90 posted on 02/16/2013 12:57:18 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: polkajello

Now thatz just plain cruel....


91 posted on 02/16/2013 1:02:47 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Reeses

I’ll tell you what one of my mormon uncles said, during the (anti-alcohol movement) mormons did not want to be seen as Christians who started drinking tea and coffee instead of alcohol, so their god mysteriously came up with the “no hot drinks” then that was easily translated to no coffee.

As far as to cold and or dry, come on really people in the west were the biggest coffee drinkers.


92 posted on 02/16/2013 1:03:21 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: Vendome

Nah, Celestial Marriage is a hoax to get women for Smith & Bring’em Young.


93 posted on 02/16/2013 2:33:28 PM PST by polkajello
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To: ravenwolf
I take most accusations with a grain of salt, especially in religion.

Then I'll have to guess that yours is being a whirling dervish.

94 posted on 02/16/2013 2:48:15 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Reeses
A practical reason coffee and tea drinking was discontinued after they moved to Utah is it's too dry and cold to grow there. They wanted to minimize their contact with non-believers so those habits had to go.

But...

...how does this apply to verses 12-13?

I've yet to find a MORMON on FR that will admit to FAILING to follow this COMMAND in warm weather!

Must be rough when yer GENTILE neighbors keep inviting you over to a backyard BBQ in the summer!

95 posted on 02/16/2013 2:51:33 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: polkajello

it’s outta this world!


96 posted on 02/16/2013 2:53:24 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: polkajello
it's outta this world!


97 posted on 02/16/2013 2:54:14 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ravenwolf; svcw
The Mormon haters try to make it look like the Mormon Women are inferior, so what does that have to do with Mormon teaching? what point are you trying to make?

(1) A temple Mormon wife can't make it to live with Heavenly Father forever unless her husband calls her forth from beyond the veil with a special name given to her from the temple ritual.

(2) A people who embraced the Book of Mormon also embraced a Book of Mormon culture.

Here...I'll introduce you to the Book of Mormon culture via a quick play of:

Book of Mormon Jeopardy on Women

Time to hit the Jeopardy category of “Women in the Book of Mormon.” (For those who don't know "Jeopardy," the answer comes first)
Answer: 2%
Question: What % of the 250 or so characters in the Book of Mormon are female?

Answer: Once
Question: How many times are “sisters” even referenced in the Book of Mormon? [The only reference I've found is 2 Nephi 5:6 – and even then
these sisters of Nephi are unnumbered & unnamed]

Answer: Sarai
Question: Who's the only wife mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon?

Answer: Abish
Question: Who's the only daughter mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon?

Answer: Don't Exist
Question: Who are the sisters mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon?

Now that we know the BoM marginalizes women, how can we tell if it trivializes women, too?

(a) Leading off the lineup of Mormon women, we have the unnamed daughter of Jared (Ether 8:8-12). What goes through her brain? Why she wants to dance before a man so that she'll seduce him into marrying him; then this household can properly commit patricide. Nice.

(b) There's an unnamed Lamanite queen in Alma 47:35. She's easy to defraud.

(c) There's another unnamed Lamanite queen in Alma 22:19-24. Let's see. This queen sees Aaron & servants @ foot of a dead king's bed. She jumps to wrongful conclusions. Then in all her decisiveness, she's going to massacre them for guilt-by-association. Then she started to back down from her heavy-handed executive authority. Why? Not because of justice, but because of fear – her servants were fearful. So she was, too (v. 21). Aaron, seeing that this woman was no match for kingdom authority, elected, instead to do the “easy thing.” And what was the easy thing in comparison to trying to deal with this queen? Why, he raised the king back from the dead (vv. 22-23).

(d) And since the book of Alma in the Book of Mormon seems to carry the predominant mention of women on behalf of the entire book, how do the earlier chapters introduce such women?
Here, read it yourself:
“And now, may the peace of God rest upon you, and upon your houses and lands, and upon your flocks and herds, and
[“and” = covering things you haven't yet covered...so what you seen the next line applies to what follows -- not what was preceding]
and all that you POSSESS, your women and your children,
according to your faith and good works,
from this time forth AND FOREVER
And thus I have spoken. Amen. (Alma 7:27)

(Well, last time I looked, forever meant forever)

Other than that, when women are mentioned in the Book of Mormon, they are good for toiling, spinning, working (Mosiah 10:5; Hel. 6:13) and having kids (1 Nephi 17:1), which the prestigious clans of the Book of Mormon were good at having by gobs of millions...supposedly.

And even when we get to the grandest of stories about women yanked out of the Bible, even Joseph can't get it quite exact. He references an unnamed virgin in 1 Nephi 11:18 -- who Smith identified as "the mother of God."

By comparison, women in the Bible were judges (Deborah), prophetesses (Anna, 4 daughters of Philip), heroines (Esther), etc.

98 posted on 02/16/2013 3:09:48 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: ravenwolf; Elsie; All
Reading the story of this so called therapist is just like reading the msm news paper, half truths if not out right lies. Is this guy preying on Mormon women or what?

Please a show at least a little bit of discernment prior to exporting your underconsidered opinions to the world.

I mean, these articles are not done "expose'" style of the person behind the study...therefore, are you really claiming that Mormon church-owned media outlets are highlighting somebody who is "preying on Mormon women?"

FYI to you: Both KSL -- and the Deseret News --
--both media outlets being owned by the Mormon church ...
--both highlighted this study (For the DesNews piece, see: UVU professor's study puts focus on LDS women and depression)...

99 posted on 02/16/2013 3:22:43 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: ravenwolf
Also i usually take up for the down trodden.

I concern myself more with the hell bound. After one has been trodden down, they can get back up but hell is forever.

100 posted on 02/16/2013 4:21:39 PM PST by Holly_P
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