{"id":2541,"date":"2010-12-15T23:19:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T04:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2010-12-15T23:19:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T04:19:32","slug":"karen-answers-paula-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2541","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Paula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Comment by Paula on 05 Nov 2010 at 12:54 pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Stupid me&gt;&gt;&gt;AAARRRGH! I made a mistake and shared something and it leaked out and now more people know about my illness than I wanted to. I am afraid and hate this. What happens when someone close to you reveals your secret? \u00a0Your story inspires me a lot. I know you must\u2019ve had people slip too. What to you think about a friend who slips your private detailed life? I am sharing your book with a lot of people. Your story is amazing. I wish I were you.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Paula<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Detroit, MI<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear Paula,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Mistakes happen. Please don&#8217;t be so hard on yourself. There were a few times when I had wished I didn&#8217;t share something of a personal nature. I learned a valuable lesson from it and moved forward. Forgive yourself. Forgive your friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>When someone shares something personal about you, such as your illness, it may be simply they were concerned or amazed by you. I would not worry too much. Worrying will make you sick. If possible, just let it go. If approached with questions simply state: &#8220;Yes, it&#8217;s true. I&#8217;m in therapy. Thank you&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0Be your best self!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Wishing you all my best!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Paula on 05 Nov 2010 at 12:54 pm Stupid me&gt;&gt;&gt;AAARRRGH! I made a mistake and shared something and it leaked out and now more people know about my illness than I wanted to. I am afraid and hate this. What happens when someone close to you reveals your secret? \u00a0Your story inspires me [&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-2541","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\/2541","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=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}