The Dangers of Tulpamancy?

[Wyrm]

Hello Tulpamancers out there! I just found out about Tulpas a few days ago. Since then I read various things about it, mostly on this forum. BUT in the internet out there are some that discribe all that very negativly in (mostly just stupid) posts. But some sound pretty realistic. I read some topics in this Forum and tought that it's all a pretty much good thing. But in some posts somone says a few (like 0,1% (jus a noumber out of the blue)) you could get a mental disease from it. I read a very good argumented and proofen post that Tulpamancy isn't a mental disorder and I think thats true but I'm not sure about if you could get one. In most some posts it's too unspecific for me and I just want a cleary answer (I don't mind long texts). So here is my question: Is Tulpamamcy dangerous in any form and so you have an "emergency break" if it tügets too serious? I know rhat Tulpas can't harm you physicly and mostly they don't want to harm you in any way but I think maybe there is some side effect in that Tulpamancy-thing at all. Some Tulpamancers are pretty weard but I also read many threads that in wich people say that Tulpas help them with their mental dissorders. I mostly don't know what I should think about all this but I'm not the type that is discrimemtly and just say its a mental disease. Sorry for the long post and the probally bad english, I'm from germany so english isn't my motherlanguage. I just created an account for thia Forum to get some oppinions to think about. Edit: I'm very courious abput this topic and I take it really serious. If I start this, I want to be really sure about anything. In may posts people say tehy regret overhasting it.

[Guest amber5885]

It's a very good thing to ask questions and no worries about your posts being long its totally fine.

 

First things first: is there any danger to tulpamancy.

 

The answer is yes but the explanation is what's important.

 

There have been a few members who have sacrificed friends, isolated themselves or done risky and damaging things to their psyche in the name of tulpamancy. The most prime example being members who volenterily threw themselves into the practice without moderation or over used drugs and alcohol in an attempt to gain progress an ended up falling into a downword spiral.

 

Without moderation tulpamancy can become an obsessive practice and it can be used and as excuse to do bad things to ones self.

 

No one has ever developed schizophrenia or dissasociative identity disorder from creating a tulpa. And yes there are numerous accounts of people myself included, who have actually been helped with there existing mental conditions by their tulpas. But even the statistics given by most if not all psychiatrists credit a good support system as the first line of defense in any mental illness and tulpas provide just that.

 

There is no real danger in the tulpa itself, but there is a danger as with all things, in lack of moderation and using tulpas as a scapegoat to indulge in drugs, drinking and antisocial behavior.

 

A tulpa, like a friend even created with horrid intentions really only wants whats best for their host and while they can't really make you do anything against will they will try to convince or coarse you into makin good choices.

 

(mine managed to talk me into quitting smoking, eating better and exercising)

 

Think of it this way, they share a body with you and it's the only one they have so their not likely to do anything that would harm it and in actuality out of a combination of genuine care for their creators and survival instinct they tend to try to encourage their hosts to do things that are good for them.

 

But if a host is already sick or chooses to engage in dangerous behavior there isn't much that a tulpa can do to stop them.

 

Just long as YOU are of a healthy mind, or at least a relatively healthy mind everything should work out just fine.

 

I hope I didn't ramble too much.

 

Peace.

[Linkzelda]

Hey Wyrm, if you make a list of questions that you want everybody to crack down on to give us a sense of direction in responding to you, I think, IMO, that would be better.

[Wyrm]

The post of amber was pretty fine for me. I just worried if something COULD happen. But I think it's like everything else that you enjoy like video games or reading. If you say it means everything for you and you stop talking to other people you will not get something good out of it. Humans are social creations. Thanks for the help, you 2!

[nivereno]

I feel like if you would get harmed by creating a tulpa you would probably find some other way to harm yourself the same way in a while even without creating a tulpa. There are so many ways to harm yourself in everything, but you generally don't do it because your smart enough not to.