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Originally Posted by RockOn
I have been reading about gaslighting. Pretty interesting!
Gaslighting is when someone screws with your sense of reality to manipulate you, causing you to distrust yourself and trust them instead.
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This sounds intensely interesting and requiring quite a bit of responsibility on the part "the manipulator." Who is actually the Top.
My good friend, who happens to be a psychiatrist, enjoys Topping psych scenes. We have often team Topped a bottom with the express consent that she will experience a period of time she will be uncertain what is and is not reality. She must enter the scene with a full understanding of what may occur.
The point of my post is to make those unknowing aware of the fact that, if gaslighting is done, all participants will be in a scene that requires a good deal of skill to successfully accomplish all elements of this type of scene including reorientation and aftercare. An intense psych scene is no less mind-altering than an equivalent physical one. You may not see any physical marks, trust that there are emotional marks which need to be dealt with.