A break from forcing

[AuraLunaris]

Due to my declining mental health, and the amount of business I have currently going on in my life, I regret my decision to make a tulpa. She is not vocal yet, as I have only been developing her for about 3 days (I can visualize her well, she has a solid personality) but I feel guilty about bringing up another being in my state of mental health. Also, the depression makes it difficult to connect to her.I do not have the focus, time or energy to develop her right now. But, I don't want to kill her off... Is there some way to ignore her temporarily without killing her?

[Stevie]

After three days of forcing I don't think that you've really done enough work that can't be started over when the time's right for you. If you were further along in development, I'd say different, but you're only three days in and that can basically be made up. Basically, what I'm saying is halting progress now won't "kill" her because there's nothing to kill yet, if you catch my drift.

 

The whole stasis thing seems like BS to me, mostly because tulpas that are in development need to be constantly reinforced, which is the point of forcing, so I won't even go there.

[Luminesce]

Tulpas don't really die. Killing a tulpa is at best symbolic, entailing no longer acknowledging them as a legitimate being and giving them no attention. I thought I'd killed one of my tulpas a long time ago, and she popped up a year later like nothing happened. She'd changed a lot too, but so had I. Anyways, don't worry about it. Just do your thing. A tulpa doesn't "die" or suffer from lack of attention, they sort of just don't exist, especially one only three days old. They're barely separate from typical thoughts of people at that point. Let them exist in your subconscious mind like every other person or character you know, until you feel ready to make a tulpa again.

[Adamaï]

^ This was a good explanation.

I hope you get well soon.