{"id":1596,"date":"2009-10-13T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T13:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2009-10-13T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T13:17:23","slug":"karen-answers-john-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Comment by John on 06 Oct 2009 at 12:11 pm<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear Karen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Did you have headaches?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>John<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Yes, I\u2019ve suffered headaches most of my life. As a child &#8220;switching&#8221; alters would cause severe, disabling headaches. No doctor ever figured out\u00a0what was the true cause\u00a0of my headaches. My doctors tried blaming my headaches on other illnesses, such as the tumor I once had. Back then, multiplicity was nowhere\u00a0in the picture, and not one doctor thought my headaches could be a sign of a mental illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I do get occasional headaches these days. I believe they&#8217;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&#8217;s life. I can&#8217;t recall ever <em>not<\/em> having a headache during my childhood years. My headaches greatly decreased after integration was complete, proving at least to me that\u00a0most of my headaches\u00a0were caused by alter chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by John on 06 Oct 2009 at 12:11 pm Dear Karen, Did you have headaches? John Dear John, Yes, I\u2019ve suffered headaches most of my life. As a child &#8220;switching&#8221; alters would cause severe, disabling headaches. No doctor ever figured out\u00a0what was the true cause\u00a0of my headaches. My doctors tried blaming my headaches on [&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-1596","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\/1596","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=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}