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laurell3 -> RE: "Partners on behavioral Meds..." (10/4/2007 4:12:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Prinsexx
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ORIGINAL: collareddreams
I find myself the longer I am in the lifestyle surrounding myself with people who maybe not necessarily understand why I choose to serve someone but are accepting of the fact that without I don't feel whole...Without DISCIPLINE, does life really exist??? I don't like to have to "fake" and "hide" who it is that i am...I shouldn't have too... I work in management and all of my co-workers are well aware that i live within this lifestyle and support my choices...
~serenity
I think that's brilliant that colleagues know. I don't feel the need to hide or to be fake and that's why I felt the need to talk about my lifestyle choices when the situation required that I had to. Otherwise, as an employee in education i don't feel the need to. Also, in client relationships I don't always feel the need to but sometimes iformation exchange is relevant. When someone comes for support and they feel they are the only one who ever felt the need to be totally owned, or they desire pain, it does support them to know that i understand not just from theory but from practice.
Your post has also made me consider this....having that feeling of being totally owned is wonderful and like a drug in itself......I mean if it enables you to feel whole and to function then isn't that the same as meds would do if you were in need of meds?
Anyway i loved the way you expressed your need in your post.
Actually I think that's wonderful that you have that kind of support as well. The reason I asked Prinsexx is I was curious whether the mental health field was more accepting of this in a collegue.
I think people are getting in some arguments (earlier than the bob arguments, which I'm not touching) over the age old debate of "nature vs. nuture". Experts across the country will also disagree and argue how many mental illnesses are caused by upbringing and/or by biology, and will treat them differently and with different medication. I have heard just as many people say absolutely bipolar disorder is only phyisological as saying it is trauma related. Both sides usually have some merit.
Should one disclose it? of course, timing though is everything. History, illness, problems can be difficult things to disclose. If the statistics are correct though, pretty much two-thirds of the people you know are suffering in some form and to some extent as well.
Breatheasone I would go get your hormone levels checked. Years ago something as simple as a low thyroid was causing me major problems, I took a tiny pill that cost next to nothing every day and it helped the problem immensely.
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