I’ll add that I’ve similarly found believing that I have beliefs in my head that are not mine was extremely disorienting. I have epistemic defenses I’ve built up for keeping out bad beliefs. Once I started believing that I had thoughts inside my head but were ‘other’—then I had what seemed like the mental version of an allergic reaction, where a bunch of my brain was treating another part of it as a foreign invader and trying to destroy it. It seemed like my epistemic defenses were turned inward. This only happened once or twice but was quite disorienting and destabilizing.
However, compartmentalization definitely does seem like a thing in this area that is not generally considered dangerous. So that seems interesting.
I do find Internal Family Systems to be quite helpful though.
I’ll add that I’ve similarly found believing that I have beliefs in my head that are not mine was extremely disorienting. I have epistemic defenses I’ve built up for keeping out bad beliefs. Once I started believing that I had thoughts inside my head but were ‘other’—then I had what seemed like the mental version of an allergic reaction, where a bunch of my brain was treating another part of it as a foreign invader and trying to destroy it. It seemed like my epistemic defenses were turned inward. This only happened once or twice but was quite disorienting and destabilizing.
However, compartmentalization definitely does seem like a thing in this area that is not generally considered dangerous. So that seems interesting.
I do find Internal Family Systems to be quite helpful though.