{"id":195,"date":"2008-09-22T14:04:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T14:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2008-09-22T14:04:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T14:04:59","slug":"karen-answers-aj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Karen Answers A.J."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/14\/qa-with-karen-question-1\/#comment-173\">Comment by A.J. on September 18, 2008 10:35 pm <\/a><br \/>\nDear Karen,<\/p>\n<p>Since you integrated do you ever have a bad day? Who takes care of things now that Holdon isn\u2019t around anymore? Do you still suffer headaches?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A.J.<\/p>\n<p>Dear A.J.,<\/p>\n<p>A bad day?  Of course, I do!  Doesn&#8217;t everyone?  I am just like everyone else who has a bad day once in awhile.  And when I do, I try my best to pull myself out of the slump.  Since I no longer lose time to alternate selves, I\u2019ve found dealing with everything on my own frustrating at times.  There are days I wish I could still lose time.  However, realistically, switching time was never a pleasurable experience. I deal with everything on my own now.<\/p>\n<p>My ex-alters have all been integrated within me and are now a part of me.  I no longer experience their individual selves.  I know that there are days I may feel more like a Holdon, Katherine or Claire, and there are other days I may feel like one of the others.  But now I am just me, Karen, one woman.<\/p>\n<p>I rarely suffer from headaches these days.  As a matter of fact, when I do and it lasts longer than a day, I make sure I get checked for why.  In the past, my headaches were severe and were caused by the stress of switching between alternate personalities.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your questions,<\/p>\n<p>Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by A.J. on September 18, 2008 10:35 pm Dear Karen, Since you integrated do you ever have a bad day? Who takes care of things now that Holdon isn\u2019t around anymore? Do you still suffer headaches? A.J. Dear A.J., A bad day? Of course, I do! Doesn&#8217;t everyone? I am just like everyone else [&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-195","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\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}