Doctor Jerry Bergman is a former Jehovah's Witness and a trained psychologist. in my experience in working for a number of psychiatric clinic as a therapist, i've worked with many many jehovah's witnesses and i find that many of them suffer from severe emotional problem from schizophrenia from severe depression alcoholism and other problems i've also consulted the scientific literature on this question and i found that clearly confirms that the mental illness rate among the witnesses is clearly above average. 