{"id":1284,"date":"2009-08-24T18:50:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T23:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2009-08-24T18:50:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T23:50:31","slug":"karen-answers-betty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Betty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span>Comment by Betty\u00a0on 17 Aug 2009 at 9:43 am<\/span><\/em><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen, what does it feel like without the alters?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Betty<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear Betty,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I feel alive. \u00a0I never lost\u00a0an alter through integration,\u00a0my alters\u00a0are me. \u00a0We are one and the same. \u00a0As each alter integrated and merged within me, I grew more complete. \u00a0I gained their sense of self in addition to me. \u00a0Each alter was one part of me, now each alter is blended within me and I am one woman with a variety of interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I admit, there\u00a0were a few moments that I wished an alter would take over when I felt stressed, but now there&#8217;s no need. \u00a0I&#8217;ve become quite used to being without their individuality. \u00a0There are days I may feel a bit more like one of the alters than another, like Sandy when I deal with my mother, Katherine when I need to organize, Holdon when I&#8217;m driving and can find some place without a map,\u00a0etc.,\u00a0but the alters are\u00a0no longer a\u00a0separate part of me. \u00a0I am all of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Thank you for your question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Betty\u00a0on 17 Aug 2009 at 9:43 am Karen, what does it feel like without the alters? Betty Dear Betty, I feel alive. \u00a0I never lost\u00a0an alter through integration,\u00a0my alters\u00a0are me. \u00a0We are one and the same. \u00a0As each alter integrated and merged within me, I grew more complete. \u00a0I gained their sense of [&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-1284","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\/1284","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=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}