{"id":1079,"date":"2009-06-18T19:12:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T00:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2009-06-18T19:14:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T00:14:45","slug":"karen-answers-rhiannonon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Rhiannon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Comment by Rhiannon\u00a0<\/cite>on 13 Jun 2009 at 2:06 am<\/em><\/div>\n
Thank you so much for sharing your story with us! What a horrific way to live your childhood and early adulthood! But you are an incredible woman, and you\u2019ve gained so much from your experiences.<\/div>\n
Kudos to Dr. Baer for never giving up on you!! What an amazing person he must be.<\/div>\n
I read your story out of curiosity, as I\u2019ve always been fascinated by dissociative identity disorder. I would recommend this book to anyone who is even remotely interested in this topic.<\/div>\n
Thank you, again, for sharing!! It\u2019s painfully obvious how difficult your life has been, but through it all you\u2019ve managed to turn your life around and make your story a positive model for all who read this!<\/div>\n
You ARE amazing! Don\u2019t ever doubt that!\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Dear Rhiannon,<\/div>\n
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Thank you for your compliments! \u00a0My childhood was indeed horrific, but as a child I didn’t really think about it that way. \u00a0By dissociating the trauma and abuse as a young child, I was able to live each day out of much of the awareness of being abused. \u00a0I believe that multiplicity, the creation of alternate personalities through dissociation as a coping mechanism, was God sent. \u00a0My alters functioned for me during childhood, but the same way of coping could not protect me as an adult.<\/div>\n
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As an adult, alter chaos caused me much stress. \u00a0It was then I knew I needed to seek help and that losing time was not normal. \u00a0I had always thought my lost time was ordinary, and that everyone lost time. \u00a0When a traumatic experience, such as being strapped down during my cesarean section, without adequate anesthesia, the alters were triggered back into action to help me survive.<\/div>\n
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I\u00a0will always be\u00a0grateful to my alters for helping me survive the extent of my abuse as a child, however, as an adult\u00a0my alters were no longer needed and living with them caused more problems than they helped. \u00a0For me to live as one woman, my alters needed to integrate.<\/div>\n
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And, yes, Dr. Baer is an amazing person to have never given up on me. \u00a0I don’t know what I would’ve done if he had given up on me, or worse, sent me off to another therapist after\u00a0I had built trust and rapport with him. \u00a0I’m sure I wouldn’t be here today, trying to help others, along with myself. \u00a0It takes great courage for any doctor to step up and take care of a patient like me. \u00a0I am the lucky one.<\/div>\n
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Thank you again for your encouraging words; they truly mean a lot to me. \u00a0And thank you for recommending Switching Time<\/em>.<\/div>\n
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Karen<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comment by Rhiannon\u00a0on 13 Jun 2009 at 2:06 am Thank you so much for sharing your story with us! What a horrific way to live your childhood and early adulthood! But you are an incredible woman, and you\u2019ve gained so much from your experiences. Kudos to Dr. Baer for never giving up on you!! What […]<\/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-1079","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\/1079","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=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}