{"id":34066,"date":"2021-05-11T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/?p=34066"},"modified":"2024-11-18T04:12:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T03:12:39","slug":"what-is-sub-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/what-is-sub-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is \u201cSub Drop\u201d? And How To Deal with It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever experienced an emotional or physical high so great that it made coming back to the real world seem difficult? Some people with experience using drugs can attest to it, as it causes a rush of serotonin or dopamine that then needs to be replenished over the following days, leaving the person feeling drained or emotionally raw. Oddly enough, this is also a phenomenon in the convention-going community, referred to as \u2018Con Drop\u2019 in which they feel burned out and irritable in the days following a convention.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For enjoyers of BDSM, Sub Drop tends to follow in the hours or even a day or two after a particularly heavy or intense session in which their system gets flooded with endorphins. I say hours or days after because everyone\u2019s metabolic rate is different and processes excess levels of endorphins and dopamine over varying lengths of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

You may not even notice that you\u2019re experiencing Sub Drop after an intense BDSM scene until you need to deal with something stressful and find that it\u2019s affecting you more than it normally would. Otherwise, you may find yourself more irritable than normal, or perhaps needing to be alone or surrounded by people. It\u2019s different for everyone, but the bottom line is that someone experiencing Sub Drop will find themselves acting or reacting in ways that they normally don\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just like depression in that your body is trying to reboot its normal levels of stress and happiness hormones. The hormones that tend to be at play prior to and during the Sub Drop can be:<\/span><\/p>\n