{"id":2118,"date":"2010-03-20T16:45:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2010-03-20T16:45:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:45:55","slug":"karen-answers-judi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2118","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Judi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Comment by Judi on 18 Mar 2010 at 8:41 pm<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I just read your remarks on CBS website regarding \u201cThe United States of Tara\u201d. I am a \u2018galaxy\u2019 and was diagnosed by Dr. Richard Kluft.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Thank you for standing up for those who suffer from this. By the photos I see here, I imagine there was ritual abuse too.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Good luck with your book.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Warmly,<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Judi<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear Judi,<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>You&#8217;re welcome! Thank you for sharing and for your well wishes for <em>Switching Time<\/em>! Yes, I suffered some ritual abuse, not by an organized group, but by my father, grandfather, and a few of their sadistic friends. I believe they may have heard about it and decided to try it themselves. My abusers were manipulative sexual predators.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I&#8217;ve not heard of \u201cgalaxy\u201d? Is this a new diagnosis? I never claimed to be an expert and sharing my thoughts about USOT are from my own personal experiences. <\/span><em>United States of Tara<\/em><span> has been an interesting show to watch, and I found myself wanting to help those watching understand a bit more. It is my hope to bring awareness about the illness of multiplicity.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Please know that you can ask me questions here on my blog or find me and Dr. Baer on Facebook. I have included more pictures on Facebook.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Thank you for your kind thoughts.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Judi on 18 Mar 2010 at 8:41 pm Karen, I just read your remarks on CBS website regarding \u201cThe United States of Tara\u201d. I am a \u2018galaxy\u2019 and was diagnosed by Dr. Richard Kluft. Thank you for standing up for those who suffer from this. By the photos I see here, I imagine [&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-2118","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\/2118","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=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}