“I have borderline personality disorder, I have several anime characters living in my head!!”
lmao ok
When It’s Completely Obvious You’re Faking A Mental Illness for Notes and/or Sympathy
Usually this is a comorbidity thing. Or a coping mechanism thing. Or both.
This is a bit of a delicate subject. There’s no way to say this without outing myself, so: hi! I have tulpas. Of the “unintentionally formed, probably caused by mental illness” variety. So I’ve got some personal experience with this.
Now, here’s the thing. A lot of the time, BPD is comorbid with other stuff. It presents a lot of the same symptoms as things like bipolar disorder, and a lot of people with BPD also tend to have autism (autistic people are way more likely to have other psych disorders than the general population) and/or some kind of trauma disorder. Trauma disorders can give someone multiplicity, and autistic people frequently have “imaginary friends” long after the age they’re “supposed” to grow out of it. So, yeah, someone with BPD could have alters or headmates because they’ve got something else going on.
Someone with BPD could also develop headmates as a coping mechanism thing. BPD can be scary. You’ve got a lot of emotions all going really fast, all at once, and you don’t feel like you’ve got a coherent personality. Sometimes having someone else around to ground you can help. And if you don’t have someone in your life who’s there to help you- which is a pretty frequent thing, no one can do the job of helping you stay safe and on an even keel 24/7- sometimes your brain spits someone out to do the job.
This can be healthy or unhealthy, depending on the people involved and their relationship dynamic. Sometimes the person your brain makes is just a manifestation of your badbrains, (And in that case, you do really need to get help, because having your badbrains nag at you in quasi-human form? Bad idea.) Sometimes it really is like having a supportive friend around most of the time.Alternately- and this is a bit controversial, ask two systems and you’ll get sixteen different ideas about this- some people are naturally multiples. Some people just have other people in their head and have for as long as they can remember. For them, it’s normal. Most of them tend to be real quiet about it, because you get flak from all sides for that. But someone with BPD might just be naturally multiple, too.
“But- why anime characters? That’s stupid. Those characters might not even have existed until two weeks ago.”
Whether you take the natural tack or a more metaphysical one- headmates tend to take the path of least resistance. Mine are old OCs of mine who took on a life of their own- in a very real sense.They take forms that match what you need. I needed a protector; I got the swaggering vampire nerd who treats me like a kid brother and raises his hackles when he sees someone who wants to hurt me. I kind of trusted him even before he showed up, because he was my character. I knew who he was. I knew he’d keep me safe.
Someone else who needs a big brother might pull Kamina or Dean Winchester out of the aether. Someone who needs a warm, comforting motherly presence might grab at Toriel or Square Mom. Someone who needs a protector might get some kind of huge hulking knight. You get what you need.
TL;DR: Someone who has one mental illness and expresses symptoms of another mental illness is not necessarily faking; multiplicity is not necessarily a mental illness thing and is not necessarily fake; people’s headmates taking the form of cartoon characters does not make them fake. Thank you for your time.
….. ok anyway stop faking bpd cus u think u have ur shitty ocs/anime characters living in ur head :)
Your reading comprehension is bad, and you should feel bad.
…wow.
I’ve said before I have a lot of conflicting thoughts on this whole phenomenon, but even with that…
I’m really starting to hate this Tumblr trend of responding to someone who writes a careful, well-thought-out, and detailed post about something they experience with “I am Sarcastic, and you are Wrong.”
Dissociative identity disorder and BPD are linked to the point that some researchers have suggested they’re the same thing but yeah, okay, sure, I’m going to take my medical advice from randos on the Internet who like making fun of special snowflakes
I agree with @fierceawakening, and also would like to note that dreams demonstrate that many human brains can run simulations of multiple personalities.
Also, it’s highly suspiciously coherent that some descriptions of “demonic possession” would match malignant non-intentionally formed tulpas (or whatever one wishes to call them) so well. And it doesn’t really seem like it would take that much of things going off the reference blueprints for a brain to start consistently using its ability to simulate other personalities to, well, simulate other personalities consistently.
Furthermore, the heuristic of “people are probably bad at describing their stuff so you’d understand it” seems rather embarrassingly obvious compared to “lol, people are [slur redacted]”, so naturally people often prefer the latter one when someone is being weird. The Dogma of Mandatory Comprehensibility at action.
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