{"id":1871,"date":"2010-01-05T23:26:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2010-01-13T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T18:34:09","slug":"karen-answers-richard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Blu Willow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Comment by Blu Willow on 30 Dec 2009 at 5:53 pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen, Hi! Are you on vacation? Checking because at this time of year I know that people like us tend to crawl into a hole of depression. We have been abused and most likely during the holidays when beer and cheer tend to create assholes in the men to take advantage of children under God. I am praying for you Karen, please be well, people need to hear from you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Happy New Year to you and Richard!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Blu Willow in Wyoming<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear Blu Willow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>No, I&#8217;m not on vacation and yes, I thoroughly understand how this time of year can bring out dark thoughts and depression for those of us who have suffered from past abuse. The holidays can be quite difficult when memories of family events and hurtful times sometime trigger sadness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I understand your comments regarding beer and cheer. Child abusers and\u00a0predators play out abusive acts\u00a0with aggression under the influence of alcohol. I, too, was abused during the holidays and\u00a0empathize with such\u00a0triggers. \u00a0I continue to deal with a few dark thoughts within myself. What I do is try my best to push them back into my past, where they belong, and not allow those dark thoughts to control my present or future. It&#8217;s difficult to do, but definitely possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Thank you for keeping me in your prayers!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Happy New Year to you, too! I will send Dr. Baer your Happy New Year wish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Blu Willow on 30 Dec 2009 at 5:53 pm Karen, Hi! Are you on vacation? Checking because at this time of year I know that people like us tend to crawl into a hole of depression. We have been abused and most likely during the holidays when beer and cheer tend to create [&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-1871","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\/1871","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=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}