Fetishes and one's Mental Health

Was wondering if anyone knew the correlation between one's fetishes and the reality of their lives. Like I have a bunch of mental health problems and for me, the sexiest fetish I could think of is like seeing a girl straitjacketed. Struggling in a padded cell is cool too. I've never actually seen this happen before. I'm aspergers so my relationships in general don't go to well. But this fantasy is almost always on my mind. Just wondering if anyone knows what the relationship between the two would be if there is one.

I'll be so bold as to say that I have no mental health problems, certainly none that interfere with my daily life in a noticeable way. That doesn't alter the fact that I have a rich fantasy life, with medical scenes to the forefront.

So there may as you suggest be a connection, but it would be a stretch to say that it exists in every individual's case.

What woodpecker said.

There are lots of papers written (although you have to pay for access in most cases) in medical journals that are on this subject. An interesting read!

I'd go as far to say I have no mental health issues yet I have the most depraved fetishes. No link?

Well I find that feeding my fetishes, makes my mental health brighter. Laughter is another good source of endorphins, as is excercise.

Well I've had a latex glove fetish since a very young age and early on in high school some how it got out. It ruined my life but it got better eventually. But I had anxiety for years which lead to mild depression, so the fetish itself didn't cause the mental health but the reaction and ridicule from other people did.

I have had an endosomatophilia fetish for quite sometime, but lately my mental health is a bit wibbly-wobbly at the moment, as I want to explore new things and concepts a lot more. I also have been operated on by doctors long enough to develop a need to be examined for health regularly, and so begins my MedFet...

There can be a correlation between fantasies of being restrained and mental health I know that for a fact.

I know my medications have completed their task of impotence. Yes, I have had partial impotence and premature ejaculation all my life. I have accepted. My caregiver told me she likes it this way. (she likes control 😃 )

I have had homosexual thoughts since I started taking antidepressants. I wonder if it's connected. I don't think it can be ruled out.

Well I know when I stopped taking a couple of my medications that’s when my sex drive came back full force & then some. I became more active on zity & even met a few people for play 😈🍑🌡️💦🍆

I know my mental health suffered after being too honest with a partner about things that I was into. Something I've been working on is trying to be more honest with myself about what I'm into and accepting myself for the who I am. I guess this forum is my first step to trying to feel normal about what I'm into.

@Jon762 if people are going to judge you for who you are then you don’t need them in your life. Be happy! If you like dick in your ass be proud of that! It feels amazing 🍑🍆😈

The question I always ask in assessing mental health is, Does your life work for you? If you have a job, loved one, friends, some activities that speak to your soul then it doesn't matter whether you think you might be gay or ogle girl's asses (I do). Your mental health is fundamentally okay. We all have things we worry about or might improve in our lives. But enjoying enemas might make us out of the mainstream, even a bit weird but mentally unhealthy? No way!

Mental health “professionals,” are typically people who have entered the field, because they can’t resolve their own problems. They are entirely disconnected from the real world, and their diagnosis is often emotionally biased. I don’t equate a fetish with being a mental health issue, provided that you’re not harming yourself or others. Fetishes are a healthy outlet, if they’re satisfying.

Most fetishes - or kinks - are healthy IMHO. As long as they don’t hurt anyone or become overly obsessive, they probably contribute to one’s well being

I've had my share of mental health issues during my adult life, including being on medication for depression and anxiety, and none of my medfet relates to it directly. I don't have the kinds of fantasies the OP describes or anything relating to that field, nor do I consider my fetishes to be any kind of disorder, although for a while they did mess with my head until I found the right way to frame them to realise that actually they were all perfectly okay.

The way my fetishes relate to my mental health now is that they're actually a positive thing to engage with. I recently read an article on how people in high-stress professions 'decompress' after difficult days and I thought if I were in that article, my contribution would have been 'I lie on my bed listening to my own heartbeat and breathing with a stethoscope and try to get into middle/tween/teen headspace and remember when my fascination with my own body and medical stuff was at its most intense.' This article was very vanilla and didn't go into anything remotely sexual, but I found myself thinking 'That's one of my things...and it's actually pretty cool.'