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\nComment by Annajean, Briget and company\u00a0on 11 Apr 2010 at 4:44 am<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
Dear Karen,<\/span><\/p>\n
A note to self: Never forget Karen\u2019s story. A note to Karen: Thank you for helping me breathe again. I was smothered by my past abuse. I tried to keep it down, stuffing it all the time. Then wore out so bad I contemplated ending my life. Never knew therapy and releasing my pain in the safety of therapy (your words) could help release not only my inner pain but the weight off my shoulders. I am starting to feel alive again. Integration doesn\u2019t sound as horrible as I thought it to be. My therapist and I are talking about starting integration next month. I have five alters and like Dr. Baer wrote mine are finally (all on board). Thank you Karen, Oh karen, say thank you to Dr. Baer from me, too.<\/span><\/p>\n
Annajean, Briget, Nell, Bobbi Socks, Patsy, and Theresa<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Dear Annajean, Briget, Nell, Bobbi Socks, Patsy and Theresa,<\/span><\/p>\n
I am glad to hear the weight has lifted off your shoulders and all your alters are now on board! That’s most important and now’s the best time to start integration. Though I’m not a therapist, I believe, based on my own personal experience, that once integration begins, the smothering feeling your are experiencing will lessen. I found sharing the deepest stories that imprisoned me, in the safety of therapy, released the tension, which in turn helped free my alters leaving them able to understand that their separate ways of helping me were no longer needed. That I, as a whole adult, would be able to handle things going forward. <\/span><\/p>\n
I understand that doubts may resurface, but for me, integration proved to be a blessing. I never lost my separate selves; they are all me. My alters will always be a part of me. I now live a life I once thought impossible, as one. <\/span><\/p>\n
Please feel free to write back and share how you are doing. My best wishes to you for a safe journey to becoming one. I will most certainly pass on your thank you to Dr. Baer.<\/span><\/p>\n
Karen<\/span><\/p>\n
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