Comment by John on 06 Oct 2009 at 12:11 pm

Dear Karen,

Did you have headaches?

John

Dear John,

Yes, I’ve suffered headaches most of my life. As a child “switching” alters would cause severe, disabling headaches. No doctor ever figured out what was the true cause of my headaches. My doctors tried blaming my headaches on other illnesses, such as the tumor I once had. Back then, multiplicity was nowhere in the picture, and not one doctor thought my headaches could be a sign of a mental illness.

I do get occasional headaches these days. I believe they’re from stress, more of a tension headache. Most of the time I calm myself down it will disappear. Headaches are very much part of a multiple’s life. I can’t recall ever not having a headache during my childhood years. My headaches greatly decreased after integration was complete, proving at least to me that most of my headaches were caused by alter chaos.

Karen