{"id":2823,"date":"2011-12-13T22:09:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T03:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2011-12-13T22:09:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T03:09:34","slug":"karen-answers-dr-gwen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2823","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Dr. Gwen"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Comment by Dr. Gwen on 03 Nov 2011 at 2:50 pm<\/p>\n<p>Karen,<\/p>\n<p>During your treatment did psych medication play a big role? I read that you refused medication. Did Dr. Baer follow your instructions? What medications were forced on you? Where do you stand on advising others regarding medication trials? Did taking meds help or prolong your therapy? Last question. Can you describe a reason how you came to your decision with or without alter help? I am a nurse practitioner and respect your thoughts. I read your story and believe Dr. Baer set the best example of therapy treatment for MPD patient. I heard his view, now I would like to understand through you.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gwen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Dr. Gwen,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing and for your compliment of Dr. Baer setting the best example of therapy treatment for a multiple! \u00a0No, psych medication never played a big role in my therapy. Early in my therapy Dr. Baer tried to introduce a few medications to help ease my distress, but being the multiple that I was, I took the medication sporadically and there could never be a consistent way of knowing how the medication worked. Different alters controlled taking the medications at different times. My therapy worked best by talking to Dr. Baer.\u00a0 He never forced medication on me. As a matter of fact, we discussed my feelings and he respected my decision not to over medicate.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a mental health professional and can&#8217;t give advice, but in my opinion, I believe psychiatric medication will hinder therapy for multiple personality disorder. I believe my healing improved when all traces of medication were out of my system. The only medication that helped me once in a while was Xanax, to calm me during very stressful times.\u00a0 One prescription of thirty pills would last me two years. My decision to not be medicated except on rare occasions was made by Dr. Baer, my alters, and me as a team.<\/p>\n<p>I hope my answers help you understand the needs of a multiple like me. I thoroughly believe Dr. Baer&#8217;s lack of prescribing me psych medications proved to be the best therapy for me.<\/p>\n<p>Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Dr. Gwen on 03 Nov 2011 at 2:50 pm Karen, During your treatment did psych medication play a big role? I read that you refused medication. Did Dr. Baer follow your instructions? What medications were forced on you? Where do you stand on advising others regarding medication trials? Did taking meds help or [&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-2823","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\/2823","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=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}