Fiction factive how to cope day to day

Is it to watch them on TV/books once your now safer year 10 healing? Is avoiding them the key? My system is still growing too. ? How can I stay out of inpatient?. I don't work , on disability.

A lot of my identities are fictive. Watching the medias they are from, helped me realize why they are part of my system, and what traumas we carry system-wise that are similar to the traumas from the original medias.

I guess it depends on the system / alter. Some find it helps understanding the traumas and looking for the proper healing. Some find it is like throwing salt on the wounds.

we have some fictives. what helps us is establishing a difference between the character on screen and the part that lives in our head, and engaging with the source, like abremonde said, has helped us to understand why specific parts split off the way they did.

i am partially some form of fictive of a character that is very angry, and experiences/experienced a lot of anger and toxicity in his home and especially from his mother, which is directly something that we have experienced bodily, causing me to take on some aspects of that character, such as appearance and personality.

recognizing the difference between me and the character on screen has helped me to connect more with my body and my life as someone who's never been that character, but rather a part of this consciousness and body. interacting with the source material has helped me to realize why i am the way i am, and to uncover memories of our childhood--when i initially split.

there's nothing wrong with identifying with the source material or being connected to it, because having fictives/introjects means that you've established a strong connection with the source material already as a system, and that's not inherently a bad thing. just realize that being too attached, that disconnecting from your life and believing you actually are/were that character is what's unhealthy.

hope this helps some. good luck.

Most of us are either fictives or non-human. Some of us originate from specific shows so it helped us track who showed up at what time in our life. We also hallucinate ourselves into show/movies when watching them, which we're fairly sure is a left over coping mecanism based on how our childhood was. Each of us has our own way of coping with it, but for day to day coping we tend to use our inner world for anything reguarding things like magic/flying etc.
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i have fictives sometimes too. it allows me to create a really safe space for myself cause they usually take on a protective role.