{"id":1041,"date":"2009-06-05T07:55:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T12:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2009-06-05T07:55:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T12:55:29","slug":"karen-answers-carole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Carole"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div id=\"yiv260325410\">\n<div class=\"cmtinfo\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Comment by Carole on 31 May 2009 at 9:14 pm<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Hi Karen,<\/div>\n<div>Thank you for inspiring me. I have fought a hard battle after being sexually abused. I am not a patient of any therapist but at times thought of getting help for myself. I never created alters like you but I know I did dissociated the abuse I received. Since I dissociate some of the abuse, what happens to the memory erased? I read your answer about not feeling good enough. I feel not good enough. I want to know what you do when you feel so low that you want to die. What keeps you alive?<\/div>\n<div>I like you very much. Good Luck forever. have a nice life.<\/div>\n<div>Carole<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Dear Carole,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m sorry to hear that you were sexually abused.\u00a0 It is a hard battle to overcome. \u00a0I continue to struggle at times, too! \u00a0 Dissociation comes in many forms, in my case I became a multiple, but not all abused children develop alternate personalities.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I understand not feeling good enough because of early sexual abuse. \u00a0Certain things will trigger my feeling that way. \u00a0It&#8217;s hard to say how I will react at any given time. \u00a0When I feel frustrated, betrayed, or taken advantage of,\u00a0 I will also feel not good enough and not respected. \u00a0Sometimes people take me for granted, ignore me, and dismiss what&#8217;s important\u00a0to me.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I have always thought I was staying alive hoping to feel loved, and to feel loved\u00a0was the most important\u00a0feeling I needed in order to live.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Thank you for your compliments,<\/div>\n<div>Karen<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Carole on 31 May 2009 at 9:14 pm Hi Karen, Thank you for inspiring me. I have fought a hard battle after being sexually abused. I am not a patient of any therapist but at times thought of getting help for myself. I never created alters like you but I know I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karens-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}