Giving up?

[Telefonmast]

So I'm around 2 months into this, and I've started to wonder- Does having a tulpa mean that you wont have any privacy? I've read a lot of things about people complaining that they have no personal life or something, and that it's become a burden to them.

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[Guest]

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[Telefonmast]

It's an interesting topic, tulpas and privacy. During the first couple weeks we had a couple issues where my tulpas would try talking to me while I was sitting in the bathroom, and it got seriously awkward seriously fast. You know how we solved this? We learned to block each other out. It's basically the same as blocking out intrusive thoughts, but with your tulpa instead. Different methods work for different people, but for the most part it's easiest to ignore something in your mind by focusing on something else. Think of something that you'll focus on whenever you want to ignore a thought and focus on it to block everything else out. It's the only effective counter I've found to the "polar bear effect". However, whenever privacy would become an issue as it is now, however, we just sit in our mindscape and talk or whatever in there, completely oblivious to whatever I'm doing IRL.

 

Also, if you ever truly want alone time, it's actually very easy to block tulpas from communicating or observing you. It's a skill that has to be learnt, but once learned it's not difficult or intrusive to do. For the most part, one should never block a tulpa from interacting with the host against the tulpa's will. The only time I find myself doing this is when I need time to think without excess thoughts in my head (this also blocks intrusive thoughts which is nice) or simply don't want to have to expose my tulpas to whatever terrifying things I might be thinking at the time. (I think everyone gets into states where they think about crazy topics just because they can.) It's basically used as "Neither of us really want to have contact with each other right now (not because we're angry, but because we want to respect each other's privacy or whatever) so if we have difficulty ignoring each other we go and force each other out of our cognition."

 

Your tulpa(s) should respect your privacy, anyone who has issues with privacy and tulpae has little to no respect from their tulpa. In essence, don't be a douche and your brain-friend will respect your privacy.

 

Thanks a lot.