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\nComment by Lorna on 14 Jan 2010 at 12:14 am<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Dear Karen,<\/span><\/p>\n
Thank you for answering questions to teach us about multiple personality disorder. I was mis-diagnosed with mpd. I didn\u2019t trust my therapist and found another one but not before I read your book. Your book is the greatest book ever written! It was Dr. Baer\u2019s writing that made me recognize the mis-diagnosis. ST was a real eye opener for me. My therapist was comparing me to you Karen. He had your book in his office. He said to me \u201cI will use the same technique psychiatrist Richard Baer used on Karen Overhill\u201d. My warning came when he walked over to his bookcase and removed your book which was post-it note flagged on over fifty pages. He started flipping pages and reading right from the book. He said I told him the same thing when I didn\u2019t. Where can I report him? I know he was trying to make me a mpd patient. My new therapist is great. I have been in therapy for six months and it\u2019s coming to an end. I was never abused as a child but raped by my boyfriend a year ago and became severly depressed. I suffered from depression not mpd. Thank you Dr. Baer. Thank you Karen. If it weren\u2019t for ST I may never have paid attention to the signs you spoke of and falsely believe my father raped me when he didn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n
Lorna<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Dear Lorna,<\/span><\/p>\n
Thank you for sharing! I believe you are very wise to recognize that your diagnosis didn’t seem right. I am glad to hear you didn’t stay in that unsafe therapeutic relationship and chose to seek help elsewhere. That is such an amazing act of maturity.<\/span><\/p>\n
How sad to hear that your old therapist used our book as an ill-advised guide to treat multiple personality disorder by force-feeding the illness into an unsuspecting patient. Dr. Baer and I hope to bring awareness, but never intended for our story to be used as a medical guide to treat the illness. Switching Time came from our journey together to heal me. That psychiatrist was wrong in pushing his thoughts onto you and having you believe you were raped by your father.<\/span><\/p>\n
I’m not sure but I believe you can report your therapist to the Board of Ethics if you wish, but Dr Baer thinks his problem may be that he is really not sufficiently well trained with these types of issues. \u00a0Dr. Baer suggests that if what you say is accurate, your ex-therapist should seek supervision on cases like yours.<\/span><\/p>\n
Thank you for being strong by moving away from a potentially harmful relationship. I am sorry your boyfriend raped you, (keep away from him, too!) but I’m glad you have completed therapy and feel better about yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n
Wishing you much happiness in your future. Trust your instincts as you have, chances are you’ll always be right.<\/span><\/p>\n
Karen<\/span><\/p>\n
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