Traumatic events and Tulpa development

[Twixie(grey[anthony{ayla]

Hello I've had my tulpae for a couple of years now and it strikes me that the way that they develop in my mind is strikingly different in my mind than most others, you see I don't force like most people do, I in fact have never forced in the traditional sense and my tulpae are healthy and happy. I have a few friends who are also like this, some of whom have simply stumbled upon techniques for possession, switching and merging.

 

One thing that I have found in common with the hosts are traumatic events, depression, loneliness, anxiety something that they had to deal with. This post here is to study the link between the occurrence of these mind folk and past traumatic events an also as a side experiment the link between rogue servitors and these minds.

[Sands]

Your name full of disgusting badges of shame was traumatic to me. Keep that shit to IRC - wait, better yet, stop spreading the plague at all.

[Avalanche]

I only see a giant badge and a statement. How and why is this in research and get rid of that badge??

[glitchthe3rd]

Moved to General Discusson.

[Lacquer]

"Research" is not about "here's a topic with a barely passing connection to the scientific process, it's about much more detailed and structured stuff.

 

I'm glad this has been moved to GD, but this topic has already been discussed to death. Yes, there is a trend, but only because the benefis of makin a tulpa closely align with thosethings you mentioned (except traumatic event; I don't get that one). There are also perfectly happy and well-adjusted people here with tulpas, too.

 

And please get rid of that godawful badge-filled name. If you really ned to label who's talking within which brackets, use the space below your name.

[Scott Z]

I can neither confirm nor deny that any traumatic events happened during my childhood. I am an amnesiac. I am certain that nothing traumatic (nor anything particularly interesting) happened to me during the periods of my life that I do remember. Twixie, are you suggesting a correlation between trauma survivors and tulpamancers, or are you suspecting some type of cause and effect relationship? (If there is a connection, I could use that information in the backstory of my superhero).

[Chupi]

I would say there's some link, but I'm not sure how strong. Tulpae appear to be similar to dissociative identity disorder, which is very often caused by traumatic childhood experiences. However, what we do here is a different, more controlled way of causing something similar, and without having the effects that make it a disorder: memory gaps and involuntary switches.

 

There's two things I can think of in my childhood that were traumatic to me: Loss of a pet in a rather gruesome way that disturbed me for a long time. Other was being moved to a new town just when friendships were really starting to develop (~5th grade); the school in the new town was much bigger and more hectic, everyone already knew each other, I almost never had the same classmate in 2 classes, and so I never really had many friends from then through high school, and none really close. I don't recall having any memory gaps (i.e. unaccounted for time), though I obviously can't recall every instant of my childhood. I haven't been told about things I've done that I have no memory of doing. Basically, no signs of DID.

 

My first tulpa is pretty much entirely created by me consciously. It took me forever to get any definitive responses from her. My second and third tulpae came about quickly, brought to sentience by her, on purpose on the second and accidentally on the third.

 

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I've theorized some that there's another mental entity here that I somehow got very early on, something that I've always just taken to be a part of me, an odd thing my brain does. An example situation is I'm working on some large problem (a computer program, say) and not getting much of anywhere. Usually I stop and look for a better way. When I do this, I put great effort into coming up with the solution, thinking it through, implementing it and fixing all the problems with it.

 

Other times, a pretty much full, correct and apparently non-obvious solution just pops into my mind while I'm 100% focused on doing it the incorrect or inefficient way I'm working on. It's sort of like a vision I guess, but non-visual. In an instant I go from not knowing there's any other way, to "just knowing" most of the different, better solution. Ideas coming in this way -- seemingly from nowhere -- are rather less trouble to implement than ones I thought out consciously.

 

But the thing that interests me is that the feeling of these ideas is similar to what I eventually came to recognize as tulpa responses. I've run into a something that I think may be this entity (or part of me or whatever), although I am not certain.

[Anton]

Does Stockholm Syndrome count?

[Chupi]

Probably depends on the circumstances surrounding it.