Therapists

[Kiahdaj]

I may or may not decide to tell my counselor about my tulpae. If I do, I'll definitely make sure to explain the concept first ("Hey, I read about this thing online that I think could help me...") before going ahead and saying that I have tulpae already.

 

Exactly how it should be done.

I think anybody who would just jump out and say they have one is being a little stupid.

[Hornets]

If I did have a therapist (I've needed one for years, parents won't let me go) I probably wouldn't tell them. It's not affecting me negatively.

[tania]

One day when I get back to my counsellor, I know I certainly wont be telling her about Jesse thou she's great.

 

The reason I wouldnt is that I see the Tulpa stuff as a quite personal thing and something there is also no need at all to tell her about, its not an issue, I only talk about life issues with my counsellor.

[Graywolf]

I told mine just because I was excited and wanted to tell someone (I explained the concept first, but only terribly). It was really awkward and she kept going back to dissociative identity disorder (which I don't blame her for).

 

She also pointed out that maybe all the traits Brook has are the ones I wish I had myself. I think that's probably true.

[Lacquer]

>not having the following paragraphs from "What is a Tulpa?" memorized:

 

Now I would like to debunk some myths regarding tulpae and innate mental illness. The first one I'm going to tackle is Dissociative Identity Disorder, formally known as Multiple Personality Disorder. This disorder is characterized by time gaps where the person doesn't know what happened, or where time has passed and the person has apparently done something and not remembered. The other major symptom also includes other ‘personalities' or consciousnesses taking over your body. The disorder is caused by traumatic events, usually in childhood.

 

Here's why creating a tulpa is not DID. You can't manifest DID by belief and imposition. Alternate personalities are within your mind, not imposed on your surroundings in a vessel of sorts. Tulpae cannot take control of your body if you do not will it. Tulpae (even in a possession state, which is purely theoretical at the time of writing) would not cause you to black out while you're in control. An alternate personality depends on your body to have its own form. Note that you cannot have MPD and subsequently make it into a tulpa.

 

Secondly, a tulpa is not schizophrenia. Some people like to call it self enforced schizophrenia but this in and of itself is an oxymoron. You can't give yourself schizophrenia. People ask about it on /x/ all the time, and are met with utter disgust. You can't give yourself a mental illness you're born with. That would involve drastically changing the chemical make up of your brain.

 

You can apply this thinking to most mental illnesses people inquire about. A large chunk of insanity manifests in not knowing that you're insane. You realize that your tulpa is part of your mind, and you treat is as such. Insanity ensues when the lines between reality and fantasy blur. By looking at things from an explainable stand point you keep your perspective and see that the tulpa is just a vessel and representation of your subconscious and its interworking mechanisms.

[tania]

"You can apply this thinking to most mental illnesses people inquire about. A large chunk of insanity manifests in not knowing that you're insane. You realize that your tulpa is part of your mind, and you treat is as such. Insanity ensues when the lines between reality and fantasy blur. By looking at things from an explainable stand point you keep your perspective and see that the tulpa is just a vessel and representation of your subconscious and its interworking mechanisms."

 

above is part of the quote Laquer posted up.. I'd esp like to point out the part which says "You realize that your tulpa is part of your mind, and you treat is as such. "

 

I'd like to point out that as most here do not actually treat their Tulpas as just a part of the mind as the quote above suggested people with Tulpas do but differently to that .. many psychs would have trouble not seeing most here who have Tulpas without having an issue due to this which they could say is the "blurring of reality and fantasy". So to others you may look crazy!

 

eg anyone who's ever promised to do something with their tulpa but then had something else come up, say a real life friend phone them asking to come out. If you choose to cancel out on that friend due to what you had promised your Tulpa this is evidence that you are not in fact treating your Tulpa as just part of your own mind (you are putting far more importance onto your Tulpa then that to the point you are making decisions which affect your physical life). This would be seen as evidence that you are treating your Tulpa as more then just being a part of your mind and rather as if it is truely a real other being. So in other words could cause a psych to want to diagnose something like schizophrenia.

[Guest Anonymous]

above is part of the quote Laquer posted up.. I'd esp like to point out the part which says "You realize that your tulpa is part of your mind, and you treat is as such. "

 

I'd like to point out that as most here do not actually treat their Tulpas as just a part of the mind as the quote above suggested people with Tulpas do but differently to that .. many psychs would have trouble not seeing most here who have Tulpas without having an issue due to this which they could say is the "blurring of reality and fantasy". So to others you may look crazy!

 

eg anyone who's ever promised to do something with their tulpa but then had something else come up, say a real life friend phone them asking to come out. If you choose to cancel out on that friend due to what you had promised your Tulpa this is evidence that you are not in fact treating your Tulpa as just part of your own mind (you are putting far more importance onto your Tulpa then that to the point you are making decisions which affect your physical life). This would be seen as evidence that you are treating your Tulpa as more then just being a part of your mind and rather as if it is truely a real other being. So in other words could cause a psych to want to diagnose something like schizophrenia.

 

That's a point, but treating them as sentient beings like your friends and family, remembering that they aren't physical, is in my opinion still within the borders of sanity. A bit weird maybe, but not crazy. (Weirdness depends on wherever you believe they are actually sentient or not).

 

If you would start to think they are physically there, able to move stuff etc., then you could be classified as crazy.

Still it depends on why you believe that. If it's because somebody told you they are physical, or ghosts, and you believed him than you are just very stupid, not a schizophrenic.

[Lacquer]

"You can apply this thinking to most mental illnesses people inquire about. A large chunk of insanity manifests in not knowing that you're insane. You realize that your tulpa is part of your mind, and you treat is as such. Insanity ensues when the lines between reality and fantasy blur. By looking at things from an explainable stand point you keep your perspective and see that the tulpa is just a vessel and representation of your subconscious and its interworking mechanisms."

 

above is part of the quote Laquer posted up.. I'd esp like to point out the part which says "You realize that your tulpa is part of your mind, and you treat is as such. "

 

I'd like to point out that as most here do not actually treat their Tulpas as just a part of the mind as the quote above suggested people with Tulpas do but differently to that .. many psychs would have trouble not seeing most here who have Tulpas without having an issue due to this which they could say is the "blurring of reality and fantasy". So to others you may look crazy!

 

eg anyone who's ever promised to do something with their tulpa but then had something else come up, say a real life friend phone them asking to come out. If you choose to cancel out on that friend due to what you had promised your Tulpa this is evidence that you are not in fact treating your Tulpa as just part of your own mind (you are putting far more importance onto your Tulpa then that to the point you are making decisions which affect your physical life). This would be seen as evidence that you are treating your Tulpa as more then just being a part of your mind and rather as if it is truely a real other being. So in other words could cause a psych to want to diagnose something like schizophrenia.

 

What that means is that we know that they aren't physical beings. They are another consciousness living inside the host's physical brain. Schizophrenics don't know that their hallucinations aren't real (real, in this case, meaning physical).

[KenzieK]

I go to a counsler every week and I told her about the IDEA of tulpas and suggested she check it out but God forbid I ever tell her I made one

[Lacquer]

She seemed to react positively based on what you said, why not tell her you have one?

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Oh, whoops. I accidentally read that as "she suggested I check it out"