{"id":3062,"date":"2013-08-12T21:19:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T02:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2013-08-12T21:19:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T02:19:35","slug":"karen-answers-bulldog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=3062","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Bulldog"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Comment by Bulldog on 24 Nov 2012 at 12:13 pm<\/p>\n<p>I have tried unsuccessful for ten years to get help for past trauma. Therapy has caused more distress even spiritual ritual abuse. I do not know how to get help because the therapist I have seen since my mom\u2019s death are causing more harm. Could you help?<\/p>\n<p>I have been waiting for fifty years for it to be okay.<\/p>\n<p>Bulldog<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Bulldog,<\/p>\n<p>Though this posting is coming far later than you have written, it&#8217;s my hope you received my earlier message. I&#8217;m sorry you have not found a qualified therapist to help you. I empathize with your concerns, but know that it takes time to build rapport with a therapist. Please give a new therapist a chance to get to know you before losing hope. I personally had a difficult time when I started therapy with Dr. Baer. I once thought of my therapist as a threat and not very helpful. I asked myself many questions: How could he possibly understand what I have experienced? Why would he want to help me? What if he didn&#8217;t believe me? Will he quit on me because I was too much too handle? Would he lock me up if I told him I wanted to suicide?<\/p>\n<p>Therapy can be frightening. It scared me half to death, but it was well worth the investment. I healed and you can, too! Please don&#8217;t give up. Remember, it&#8217;s taken you forty years to get to this point of wanting help. The last ten years may not have brought you a sense of calm, but it&#8217;s never too late to receive help. Have faith!<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you all my best as you journey to wellness!<\/p>\n<p>Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Bulldog on 24 Nov 2012 at 12:13 pm I have tried unsuccessful for ten years to get help for past trauma. Therapy has caused more distress even spiritual ritual abuse. I do not know how to get help because the therapist I have seen since my mom\u2019s death are causing more harm. Could [&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-3062","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\/3062","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=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}