It is effectively the one thing, switching the "role" of host and tulpa. It isn't extremely complicated, but it does have significance and results in difficulty for hosts to "disconnect", so to speak.
5:36 PM
Right.
5:38 PM
I would say switching less involves disconnection from all sensory input and rather a switch in primary capability with the body - after all, that is the major difference between being the tulpa or not (assuming the tulpa is largely developed, capable of thinking on their own, has their own personality, etc).
5:39 PM
Since the point of switching is reversing the positions, sensory disconnection isn't a necessary component.
alright, that makes sense. I guess for me, that just comes naturally with possessing a lot long-term. I think it took a lot of time for my tulpa in the body but not explicit practice.
5:43 PM
so I lean towards being slightly reductive towards that changing of primacy
My own personal trouble is depression, but that is more of a consistent dull pain rather than a severe spike of a panic attack.
5:47 PM
...I think the simple explanation for it is that the brain is finite. The one fronting has more access to it as they also need to focus on the surrounding world as well.
I wonder about this blunted emotion though. I think we've all experienced our tulpa weeping pretty hard, or being so livid the anger is almost tangible. . . No?
As for depression and existentialism, an existential form of it was one way it manifested, and one cause at a time - however, I have resolved that trouble.
Depression isn't just a result of a specific cause, it can be a generalized problem as well due to brain chemistry. Or, perhaps there is some other cause I am currently unaware of.
Actually, the arousal from an emotional outburst can be interpreted a few ways, depending on the state of mind of the person experiencing the rush.(edited)
5:53 PM
I forget what that theory is called. . . Arousal theory?
depends on the therapist. Some have outright diagnosed them with schizo, others have taken it much more in stride, mostly they didn't know wtf that was and ended up reading on the concept
10:02 PM
some associate it with DID and might try reintegration
Mine suggested it was related to DID, and suggested it probably wasn't a big enough problem for my depression/anxiety to worry about it, given other life factors and thinking patterns.
They actually didn't land on the DID conclusion and liked it more to this guy's work on. not alters, but. . . it was something like imaginary friends for one's own mental stability?. . . Even that conclusion doesn't seem to be their final stance on it.
I only say that because tulpas does not show any of the same symptoms as psychosis, at all. Even if you are auditory hallucinating, which I doubt many people in the tulpa community do, that is only one symptom and does not meet the criteria required to diagnose schizophrenia.
Unless your tulpa is really good at forcing imposition and making things appear/disappear it isn't too difficult to tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined.
10:11 PM
Especially when you're not able to do imposition. :P
Unfortunately, some therapists are not particularly good.
10:31 PM
I used to undergo therapy for myself.
10:32 PM
The therapist was clearly skeptical at first, but respectful - and proceeded to understand and speak to me as my own person, validating how I existed after spending a short amount of time talking to me.
