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This question is partly (read: almost entirely) born out of some problems my tulpa has been having.

 

Anyway, what I was wondering is this: how would psychotherapy/ counseling work for treating a tulpa with mental illness? As someone who's tulpa has been and continues to exhibit a number of symptoms of mental disorders, I would really like to try some kind of therapy with her. The problem is that I kind of feel like a typical psychologist would assume that she is a mental disorder, rather than working on helping her through her problems.

 

As for counseling her myself, the fact that she knows my opinions on anything she tells me makes it a little bit difficult to seem completely non-biased the way a good therapist is supposed to be. Not that this has really been a problem in our relationship, since we're pretty good at agreeing to disagree, but for purposes of therapeutic conversation this isn't exactly an ideal setup.

My tulpa

Name: Tammy

Sex: female

Species: Anthro (red fox)

Working on: imposition

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I don't even think it is possible for tulpa to have mental disorders in which one would seek to treat with therapy. I think your the only one that has this issue. I guess irc is a good a place as any to seek that though

Amelia- Oct. 7, 2012

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It's a complicated situation. She has suffered from nervous breakdowns on several occasions, as well as Tourette's like symptoms, and a few other things that I'm not going to go into right now. Though most of these issues probably are not severe enough to be debilitating, I still want to help her in any way I can.

My tulpa

Name: Tammy

Sex: female

Species: Anthro (red fox)

Working on: imposition

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To endorse what PsychoticDoc mentioned, the gap of uncertainty on whether or not tulpas can have mental ailments/disorders like us is fairly large. At best, based on conjecture alone, one could deduce those mental disorders or illnesses a tulpa develops could be a psychosomatic experience. Maybe it could be your tulpa wanting to apply some ontological validation to her sentience, maybe it could be your mind filling in the blanks and just happened to have that attribute she’s utilizing, or something else entirely.

 

Maybe the whole strive for seeking consolation for your tulpa could be a self-fulfilling prophecy, or maybe this set of circumstances could be relative (but not exact) to cases where one would have multiple aspects of themselves that are delegated to handle a certain crisis, or become someone to handle a certain burden.

 

And for how you have difficulty with resolve, especially with the constant fixation on how she would be proficient in knowing your own opinions beforehand, I guess it could be a personal problem on your end. It’s one thing for a tulpa to be a vicarious being with the sentience and all, but it’s another when the host themselves are in a deadlock with knowing they could easily access preexisting memories of their host, especially since they’re sharing their mind and all.

 

What I could suggest is that you shouldn’t really seek professional help if you feel they would consider her existence as a disorder. Don't take my word on this, but Eva's development had a combination of all sorts of occurrences in the past that used to make me think if she was psychotically ballistic, or I was just attaching myself to thoughts of worst case scenarios and presuming Eva embodied all of those thoughts.

 

Maybe you should be reflective, and go through the set of problems she has and try to work things out. I know it seems kind of self-defeating having to do that when you feel she already knows what you’re going to say, but this is a case where you have to learn how to teach your own tulpa into being able to talk to themselves in calming down to know how to assess the situation.

 

That’s just one of the limitations with self-fulfilling prophecies, especially when tackling the issue in your own hands: If you have experiential learning when it comes to handling and assessing psychological depression and disorders, it just involves being reflective, and gradually knowing how to calm your tulpa down.

 

But seeing how that's not the case, maybe it’s better to have some group thinking on IRC for other approaches you can take.

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Well, I thin the simplest explanation about what's happening is that she's expressing a lot of latent mental problems I suffer from, but have managed to suppress. To give you an idea of what kinds of disorders I used to have: when I was about four years old or so, I used to wash my hands until the skin was literally cracking and peeling off, refusing to walk on the spaces between floor tiles, and otherwise expressing symptoms of severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In addition, I used to suffer from a number of Asperger's symptoms, Tourette's symptoms, and I had some major problems with aggressive behavior. I have learned to control all of these problems over the years. However, Tammy is just getting used to being inside my obviously miswired brain, and is starting to express odd symptoms that I learned to control a long time ago. I think the main thing we would really like here is an outside evaluation of exactly what's going on, and whether or not we should be concerned.

My tulpa

Name: Tammy

Sex: female

Species: Anthro (red fox)

Working on: imposition

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Since you've stated you've managed to control those symptoms in the past, I don't think she's going to have them all the time. Like you've stated, maybe she's just trying to get used to the workings of your mind and all, but seeing how you would have experiences before that helped you reduce the occurrences of those symptoms, she would be able to find out somehow. Maybe you can inform her on activities and such you did to help reduce those problems, and she in turn would be able to emulate success as well.

 

Because it looks like she just needs to overcome it, and since how she experiences things would be conceptual and easily changed compared to what you had to go through, you shouldn't be as concerned as you were when you had those cluster of symptoms to deal with in the past. I guess it's a matter on how she would be able to rationalize and make proper judgement of preexisting memories and such to develop her own experiential learning in assessing the problem she seems to be going through. I still think it's a psychosomatic experience she's going through, but that's one approach you could take.

 

TL;DR: In short, you could see this as her having to go through a learning curve in developing a sense of clarity in the entrenched predispositions you used to have, and this in turn may be a chance for her to augment her presumed cognitive ability to rationalize to assess the situation. I don't think it's something you two should be concerned about, since I'm sure if you go through contributing as much as you can (without being worried about her knowing what you'll say), it's really just believing she'll be alright so that you can mentally prepare yourself to fulfill that desire of her being able to see things through honestly.

 

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Also, if you seek professional help, you don't really need to mention her at all. Maybe you could formulate a situation where "Hey, I have a friend who.......-insert situation-, and I was wondering how I could tell her to handle it?" without the need of saying you have a tulpa or anything. How you go about contacting that help through phone, or face-to-face is up to you, I guess. Maybe it could be a good refresher for you, and of course if the suggestion for taking medication is there, maybe it would be better to take any advice that seem to cater to mentally preparing and coping with those symptoms until they're absolved from her perception.

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Since a tulpa is in the brain doubt they can have a mental illness that the host doesn't have (I happen to have one, as does my tulpa, makes sense).

 

Another thing to remember is there's no such thing as normal esp when it comes to mental health, I never heard of or seen a 100% sane individual. It's all how you deal with these issues as they come up.

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