{"id":2554,"date":"2011-01-09T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T16:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2011-01-09T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T16:41:03","slug":"karen-answers-delphine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Delphine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Comment by Delphine on 14 Nov 2010 at 11:22 am<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Thank you Karen for helping me. I am a abused forty year old woman with lack of self esteem and suicidal thoughts. While reading your blog I felt energized to do something other than wallow in self pity. The words you share from deep in your soul helped me. I know people tell you that all the time but this time it\u2019s me telling you. I was going to end my life and considered not doing it to honor you. I am in therapy now. I would not have been if I did not read Switching Time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Happy Sunday. You are a blessing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Delphine<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear Delphine,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Thank you for sharing! I can empathize with your wallowing in self-pity. I have done the same. Therapy and healing is hard work, but worthwhile. It&#8217;s important to know that having suicidal thoughts while in the process of healing is normal, as long as you keep those thoughts as thoughts and not actions, and share them with your therapist when they threaten you. There were many days that I needed help from Dr Baer, from inspirational writings, and from those who cared to listen. When I thought about suicide, I tried my best to take a deep breath and step back from myself, and replace those thoughts with better ones. At times I felt I was my worst enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I am glad you chose not to end your life. Thank you for writing to me on Facebook. I have faith in you. Please know that I care.<\/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 Delphine on 14 Nov 2010 at 11:22 am Thank you Karen for helping me. I am a abused forty year old woman with lack of self esteem and suicidal thoughts. While reading your blog I felt energized to do something other than wallow in self pity. The words you share from deep in [&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-2554","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\/2554","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=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}