{"id":691,"date":"2009-02-13T02:28:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T02:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2009-02-13T02:28:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T02:28:25","slug":"karen-answers-margaret-nell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Margaret Nell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comment by Margaret Nell on February 10, 2009 3:36 pm<\/a><\/p>\n

Hi Karen,<\/p>\n

Very interesting what you wrote to Paul. In addition to his question I would like to know if your relationship with your husband and children was as open as Tara\u02bcs character in USOT? Did your children have a relationship with each alter by name and personality? Last question? Did your children turn out gay, dysfunctional, in any way bad because of your illness?<\/p>\n

Margaret Nell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dear Margaret Nell,<\/p>\n

I am glad you found my answer to Paul interesting, however, once again, I must say my story is unlike the show USoT. The character Tara is portrayed by an actress, Toni Collete, who has not suffered from the real illness of Multiple Personality Disorder as I have. I believe Toni Collete is doing a great job acting as a multiple mom and gives a convincing performance, it’s just not an accurate depiction of my experience, or the actual illness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My relationship with my husband and children differed from that of Tara’s. \u00a0My husband was not as supportive, and was frustrated more often than not. \u00a0Our marriage was a rough ride that only added to my alter chaos. \u00a0My husband had been abusive and the alters switched out of fear. \u00a0I never shared the alters names with my husband, there was no reason to. He would know when I wasn’t “me” but that’s about it. \u00a0Most of the time I’d try to stay away from him.<\/p>\n

My children never acted as Kate and Marshall, Tara’s children in the show, do. \u00a0My children never referred to each alter by their individual name. \u00a0My alters protected my children and kept them involved in many activities that included me as the Mom. \u00a0As a matter of fact, my children never took drugs, smoked anything including cigarettes, nor drank alcohol. \u00a0I am not saying they’re perfect, because none of us are, but I’m proud of my children for never getting into trouble. That’s what we all hope for our children.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your questions.<\/p>\n

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

Comment by Margaret Nell on February 10, 2009 3:36 pm Hi Karen, Very interesting what you wrote to Paul. In addition to his question I would like to know if your relationship with your husband and children was as open as Tara\u02bcs character in USOT? Did your children have a relationship with each alter by […]<\/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-691","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\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}