Comment by Mrs. McCoy on 11 Dec 2009 at 1:38 pm

Dear Karen,

How are you? How is Richard Baer? Do you guys still talk about things? I read your book and thought WOW what love between two people thrown together in such a service to promise great knowledge to mankind. Did you know that doesn’t happen very often? When two people are cast in each others direction their lives were bound together by God’s promise. A therapy like yours was meant to be told. Thank you for sharing your story with all the graphics most cringe over. I needed to hear the truth about sexual abuse. I needed to know someone like you. I needed to know there are a few doctors willing to risk all to help a spiritually dead person by helping bring them back to life. God bless you both. Wishing you a Merry Christmas, for you are one of God’s true miracles!

Mrs. McCoy

Dallas,TX

Dear Mrs. McCoy,

Dr. Baer and I are doing our best to keep our lives moving forward. We get together often and continue to maintain our relationship, bound by trust and respect for each other. Relationships like mine and Dr. Baer’s don’t come around very often. We stuck together through thick and thin, good and bad times, and have cherished our time together.

I believe my meeting Dr. Baer and my healing was meant to be. I was fortunate to fall into the right hands, and I will always be grateful. What we have accomplished together is an amazing, once in a lifetime journey that succeeded. We’re sharing our journey with all who would like to understand the true depth of an intense therapeutic journey between one psychiatrist, his patient, and the incomprehensible illness: multiple personality disorder.

I believe all that we accomplished was God’s promise. When I was a child of thirteen I prayed along with my grandmother for God to send someone to help me. I believe Richard Baer was God sent, an answer to that prayer.

Regarding sharing the truth about the ugliness of child sexual abuse and what can happen to a child who has been repeatedly abused? It is my and Dr. Baer’s hope that by revealing the horror that can happen, people will gain the appropriate knowledge and learn what signs of abuse to look for in all of our children. I was not the only child abused, sadly, many are. Maybe through sharing my story in Switching Time, people will become more aware and report abuse. Maybe, in sharing my story it will make a difference to one child.

Thank you for your blessings, I will share them with Dr. Baer!

Merry Christmas to you, too!

Karen