{"id":2592,"date":"2011-02-03T22:43:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T03:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2011-02-03T22:43:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T03:43:54","slug":"karen-answers-leelah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2592","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Leelah"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Comment by Leelah on 06 Dec 2010 at 12:37 am<\/p>\n<p>In Beth\u2019s comment about Kim Noble, what did she mean by Kims therapist was unable to disclose confidentiality even with Kims permission.<\/p>\n<p>Leelah<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Leelah,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what Beth meant by her comment regarding being unable to disclose confidentiality even with Kim&#8217;s permission. Perhaps it has something to do with Kim not completing her therapy and still being her patient. \u00a0I don&#8217;t really know; usually the patient can decide when to release confidentiality. Dr. Baer didn\u2019t publish my story until after we severed our therapeutic relationship.<\/p>\n<p>I believe my story was meant to be shared. If no one shares their experience, then how can we learn from each other? Knowledge brings strength and understanding for those who suffer. I believe sharing\u00a0<em>Switching Time<\/em> was in my best interest. I have written thousands of pages during my therapy to support my mental well-being. Venting using the written word has helped me through many difficult times. Dr. Baer and I discussed at length his writing my story. I do not regret sharing. As a matter of fact, I continue to write each day and hope to publish a second book to compliment Dr Baer&#8217;s first.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for asking. It&#8217;s important to me to help in the best way I can.<\/p>\n<p>Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Leelah on 06 Dec 2010 at 12:37 am In Beth\u2019s comment about Kim Noble, what did she mean by Kims therapist was unable to disclose confidentiality even with Kims permission. Leelah Dear Leelah, I&#8217;m not sure what Beth meant by her comment regarding being unable to disclose confidentiality even with Kim&#8217;s permission. Perhaps [&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-2592","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\/2592","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=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2593,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions\/2593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}