{"id":2888,"date":"2012-03-06T22:27:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T03:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2012-03-06T22:27:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T03:27:59","slug":"karen-answers-mariah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2888","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Mariah"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"yiv1240299062\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>Comment by Mariah on 04 Jan 2012 at 8:49 pm<\/p>\n<p>Hello, I am a high school student who just finished reading the book for a psychology class. I found it very interesting and inspiring\u2026 in fact, it is going to be what I choose to do my exam paper on! But I was just wondering, what was it like to raise children while going through everything you had to deal with?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Mariah,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your kind compliments! Raising children as a multiple mom was not that different than the way most mom&#8217;s would raise their children. Dissociation and losing time did not happen much when I was with my children. How could that be? Simple. My children were not a threat to me and therefore most of the time there was no need for my alters to protect and rescue me. Of course my alters were a part of my children&#8217;s life but always in my children&#8217;s best interest. My children did not know my alters by name and called me \u201cMom\u201d at all times. My alters would take over when I was ill and under great stress. My child alters would simply come out to be playful companions, watch television, or to have great fun. One thing I know for sure is that no matter how depressed or badly I felt, my children were always safe and were protected by alter help.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for asking about my children.<\/p>\n<p>Karen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Mariah on 04 Jan 2012 at 8:49 pm Hello, I am a high school student who just finished reading the book for a psychology class. I found it very interesting and inspiring\u2026 in fact, it is going to be what I choose to do my exam paper on! But I was just wondering, [&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-2888","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\/2888","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=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}