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Just thought I could give indifferent viewpoint here since I am a submissive with bipolar disorder. Not sure what is being considered parading around an illness but I will say I do not keep it a secret because I don't want it turning into some skeleton in the closet someone can pull out and use against me.
I do not feel at all that my desire to be submissive is related to me being ill. One thing I try and watch myself for though, so I supposed Doms should watch out for subs with similar conditions, using the lifestyle as an excuse or disguise to be self destructive. When I get that way it is not me being submissive it is be behaving like a crazy person ( I suppose literally ) hoping something goes wrong. Doing things normally out of my comfort zone with people I do not know. When I do stuff like this I am not submitting, I am trying to hurt myself but having someone else actually do it.
Yes, HC - thank you so much for your input - that's exactly how it has been coming across to me when being shared by the subs online I talk to who claim to be affected by such conditions ... not as some sort of parading around their situation, but rather wanting me to know about it for the sake of honest communication. Of course, this type of self-revelation has only taken place after talking for a while and at the point where we started sharing at a deeper level about ourselves and our preferences. I have to say that I have kept witnessing this high incidence of such conditions ... I've been interacting a lot with subs on several boards over the past several weeks... So I'm lead to believe that there must be a link of some sort, indeed.
Of course, this does not apply generally to everyone in the lifestyle, but there is certainly a high incidence of it, at least in the context of my own experience.
As to the second part of your post, that's exactly what motivated me to start this thread and to inquire further into this type of dynamics. One thing is when we have two adults in full possession of their ability to make healthy choices for themselves who decide upon some form of play in the context of the limits they feel comfortable with. I see it as a healthy way of expressing the innermost parts of ourselves, and it's wonderful that today we have such freedom and to such extent. Quite another thing is, however, and as you described, when bdsm play is taken to extremes and used by those in temporarily unstable/unhealthy states of mind as a means for high degrees of self-destructiveness/self-injury. I imagine it could even become a slow form of painful suicide, should the condition persist over time. This is something I do not want to be a part of.
Is anyone else among the Doms/Masters concerned about this issue as much as I am? My concern stems from ethical, moral and spiritual considerations. If yes, how are you dealing with this issue, specifically?
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