{"id":170,"date":"2008-09-16T14:39:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T14:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2008-09-16T14:39:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T14:39:42","slug":"karen-answers-susie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Karen Answers Susie"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/14\/qa-with-karen-question-1\/#comment-146\">Comment by Susie on September 13, 2008 1:50 pm <\/a><br \/>\nDear Karen,<\/p>\n<p>What keeps you going and prevents you from ending your life? In one of your previous answers you mentioned that you still have these thoughts sometimes. I don\u2019t mean to sound rude, but where do you see yourself in five years?<\/p>\n<p>Susie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Susie,<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true; I still have thoughts of ending my life at times.  I know these &#8220;thoughts&#8221; are old responses to stress and I have no intention of acting on them. I try my best to overcome these thoughts by reaching out to someone close, praying, or diverting my attention to something pleasant, like losing myself in a good book.  I will try most anything to break the pattern of these distressed thoughts when I have them.  I believe each day brings something new, and although I still struggle some nights, I&#8217;ll continue to try my best to understand why I react this way and work through it.  I am always happy when I awake each morning and know that I am alive and well, ready with a promise to myself to start a new day.<\/p>\n<p>In five years, I hope my life continues to improve. I have faith and believe all will be well.  Maybe I&#8217;ll be able to travel around the world, feel loved, be a grandmother, and enjoy my life in ways that I never thought possible.  I do have dreams, and in my dreams, I live.<\/p>\n<p>Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Susie on September 13, 2008 1:50 pm Dear Karen, What keeps you going and prevents you from ending your life? In one of your previous answers you mentioned that you still have these thoughts sometimes. I don\u2019t mean to sound rude, but where do you see yourself in five years? Susie Dear Susie, [&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-170","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\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}