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I'm afraid the above is all too true in some cases...I think we would be sticking our heads in the sand if we refused to acknowledge the prevalence of mental illness in the lifestyle.
No sane person will eat shit…stick needles through their balls…sew up their cunts…allow blood to be draw from a whip…on and on.
No… many in the lifestyle have real problems even if they themselves don’t admit to them.
Myself I’m ok with my mental illnesses…or perhaps I should say my deviation from the norm…but I don’t fool myself into thinking I am normal.
Butch
I'd be very curious to hear how you are differentiating the determination of mental illness between someone who decides they want a Prince Albert piercing and someone who bottoms for a scene where they are going to receive a crown of thorns? There's a big, huge, gaping canyon between YKINMK and deciding that folks are mentally ill because they happen to have kinks that are more extreme than yours. Also, it's very important to remember just who's measuring stick that we're using here. It wasn't all that long ago that we as humans had made a determination that homosexuality was a version of mental illness because the majority of people decided it was "sick".
In My opinion, it's an error any time that we attempt to believe we're any different than any other segment of the population. We are not better or worse. We're not more tolerant, more likely to be mentally ill, have a greater or lesser educational average, or any other thing that folks like to come to some conclusion that isn't roughly the same as the rest of the general populace. We just happen to be on a communication venue, so we may be talking about various things more than people who don't do so.
Since we really *are* like any other segment of the population, that means we're going to also have folks who will manipulate others by playing the pity card for stuff like this. We're going to have people who use and abuse the term for their personal benefit from other people. (It's a small segment, but it exists.) So, while sub drop is a legitimate phenomenon, it loses it's validity when people attempt to use it as an explanation of the human condition.
In short, as a human, people will still experience the vast range of emotions/sensations that they did before they ever had their first scene. They will still get hungry, cold, tired, listless, sad, lonely, and alllllllll of the other things that other people do who don't label sub drop because they aren't a sub or decide to call all of these things 'drop' because they happen to be a sub or Dom. Drop, in an of itself, is the brains readjustment to normal chemical flow after a period where the receptors were flooded with an over-abundance of those same chemicals. That's it.
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