Posted on 05/10/2005 9:17:20 AM PDT by mhking
Jennifer Wilbanks, the runaway bride whose disappearance triggered a nationwide search, has entered a voluntary medical treatment program.
According to a statement from the family's church, "Ms. Wilbanks entered a highly regarded, inpatient treatment program on her own volition to address physical and mental issues which, she believes, played a major role in her 'running from herself' as she described in a public statement last week."
Wilbanks entered the program late Monday. The location of the program and suggested duration of treatment was not disclosed.
Wilbanks was already undergoing professional treatment. On May 5, the pastor for the Wilbanks family, Dr. Tom Smiley, read a statement from Jennifer Wilbanks. In the statement, Wilbanks said she, "started professional treatment voluntarily," for the problems that led her to run away.
Dr. Smiley said the treatment was "professional therapy with certified, competent professionals." Smiley did not go into details about the treatment.
Wilbanks, 32, touched off an extensive search in April when she disappeared after leaving her Duluth, Ga., home for a jog just four days before her scheduled wedding.
Wilbanks turned up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She told police she had been abducted, but she later told authorities she took a bus to Las Vegas and then Albuquerque on her own.
You might be right. If she was like some of my anorexic relatives, her main concern would have been all the food that was to be consumed at the wedding reception.
.....good to see you here, MadIvan...:)
they'll probably come up with something like hyper-thyroid disorder....of course, in conjunction with panic/anxiety disorder.
IT"S ONLY A FLESH WOUND!!!!
Perhaps the fourteen bridesmaids and eight bridal showers had the same purpose.
If it was attention she was after, she succeeded.
The only problem I see is that the whole lot of them have been enabling this grown woman for too long! Maybe a little tough love would have been the answer not treating her like she is a 15 yr old who doesn't get what she has done-like saying she didn't realize so many would be searching for her? Is she really that stupid? Thank God no kids were produced by this blithering idiot. Quit coddling her and let her take her lumps as should have been done with the first arrest not let it get this far at her age!
The only problem I see is that the whole lot of them have been enabling this grown woman for too long! Maybe a little tough love would have been the answer not treating her like she is a 15 yr old who doesn't get what she has done-like saying she didn't realize so many would be searching for her? Is she really that stupid? Thank God no kids were produced by this blithering idiot. Quit coddling her and let her take her lumps as should have been done with the first arrest not let it get this far at her age!
The only problem I see is that the whole lot of them have been enabling this grown woman for too long! Maybe a little tough love would have been the answer not treating her like she is a 15 yr old who doesn't get what she has done-like saying she didn't realize so many would be searching for her? Is she really that stupid? Thank God no kids were produced by this blithering idiot. Quit coddling her and let her take her lumps as should have been done with the first arrest not let it get this far at her age!
My first guess was an eating disorder too....
She has many of the behaviors and symptoms....and the worst thing would be to be living under a roof with someone who notices your eating habits.
I wish her well.
I do also. I was beginning thing that we had turned into hardened loons, when I started seeing the posts before yous.
I hope her and her family and all involved will be ok, and able to look back and relize she made mistakes, but no one was killed, harmed or hurt phyisically. She is not a villian.... some need to consider that she was in an emotional twit to do such actions.
People who are involved in church, depend on their pastors for spiritual strength. I can assure you WE BAPTIST ARE NO CULT!
That is just stupid to even say such....
Hehehe...
What's your Freeper name? Oh yeah...Phantom Lord.!! I dunno...but that seems sort of cultist to me..!! LOL!!
Damn, how'd you beat me to this????
I think that by now the family would have leaped on the "blame the thyroid" bandwagon, had that been the case.
Nah, she's just nuts.
Other than maybe the one a former friend got sucked into.
He is a former friend because he was forbidden to associate with "non believers" and had a fondness of telling my wife she is going to hell because she is jewish and I for marrying her.
But your right, no cultish baptists out there.
What a sad commentary on some here.
Yep. The Cult of Hetfield.
Bulimia would explain the somewhat odd "likes to eat" comment.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/0505/08bride.html
The aunt asked Jennifer if it was OK to pass along Jennifer's phone number to the runner, a Duluth guy named John Mason. Sure, Jennifer said.
Mason called her. Not long afterward, the two went on their first date. Things clicked.
"He said, 'She likes football, she likes to eat and she's a Georgia Dogs fan,' '' said Melinda Larson, a member of Mason's running club. The relationship, Larson said, exuded "positive energy."
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