{"id":442,"date":"2008-11-08T03:53:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T03:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2008-11-08T03:53:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T03:53:38","slug":"karen-answers-laura-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Laura"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Comment by Laura on November 5<\/span><\/span>, 2008 2:57 am<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Karen,<\/span><\/p>\n

When you were in pain as a divided person would you claim the rare illness ceda? The illness where you never feel physical pain? Or was your pain mind controlled? I have DID and can not feel pain as I should and this causes some very serious problems if I don\u2019t check myself regularly. What did you do with the pain? I have to say it helped my being abused in childhood. How do you experience pain and pleasure?<\/span><\/p>\n

Laura<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dear Laura,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I haven’t heard of ceda,\u00a0but this was not me.\u00a0 I was capable of feeling pain, but my pain was\u00a0dissociated by alternate parts of me. I dissociated my pain in order to survive.\u00a0\u00a0This was done out of my awareness; it was\u00a0a mental coping mechanism\u00a0and not a physical abnormality. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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As a multiple personality switching time, I was unable to feel pain in the same way most feel pain.\u00a0 My pain was there,\u00a0but I was able to temporarily push it aside and feel nothing.\u00a0 Sometimes I couldn’t even\u00a0describe to\u00a0a doctor what my pain was like\u00a0in order to help myself.\u00a0 My pain was unexplainable and inconsistent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Having my pain temporarily removed during my being abused did help, but I’ll never be sure if this was\u00a0finally helpful.\u00a0 I sometimes wonder\u00a0whether\u00a0if I felt the actual pain I would have screamed, sought help,\u00a0and maybe been helped by someone who heard me. \u00a0There is a good reason we all need to feel pain.\u00a0\u00a0I was unable to learn how to get away, cope, stop the cycle of abuse.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Since\u00a0the integration of my alters I experience pain as pain, pleasure as\u00a0pleasure.\u00a0\u00a0That’s how it should be.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Karen<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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