As a consequence of being cocreators, we see our trauma through cocreation-tinted glasses. In the past, we confused a lot of our trauma-related experiences with typical non trauma-related cocreation experiences. Thus, when we apply cocreation mindsets to trauma, we call it "traumamancy".
This is not to be confused with willomancy. Willomancy is a separate dedicated practice of willing headmates into existence, sometimes using an under-developed alter as a starting point. On the other hand, traumamancy is a byproduct of viewing one's trauma with a cocreator or paromancer perspective.
We are not the first system to coin the term. While we may have used it the most in broader parogenic community spaces, I spotted another system come up with the term years before I did.
As a result, we tend to think of traumamancy through a negative lens. We originally thought of the term jokingly, but our idea of "funny" here is coming from a place of dark humor and coping with our trauma-related experiences. We struggled with this confusion for awhile, and it obscured red flags for when when we needed professional help.
We thought hostile intrusive thoughts that were thoughtforms were just walk-ins you needed extra effort to ignore.
I always felt like the odd one out, but I assumed that was because we were just an "accidental system". Of course, I convenient forgot about this when other accidental systems showed up
We assumed my paranoia over staying switched-in was normal cocreation stuff
While general self-help advice isn't abnormal for cocreation guidance, there's a fine line between helping someone create a cobud or how to visualize vs say helping someone cope with incredibly problematic intrusive thoughts or help someone process extreme headmate on headmate tensions.
Additionally, we often find the confusion between cocreation and trauma-related experiences frustrating when giving advice to others. We are not therapists, we can't be expected to give advice beyond typical self-help tips. And even then, it's frustrating when we want to talk about cocreation. We're not always in the mood to give depression and anxiety support.
However, traumamancy does have a few positives.
For one, it can make coping during trauma work easier. We find our trauma work incredibly fascinating. We think it's fun to analyze why our alters are the way they are and how our mind uses plurality in interesting ways.
Secondly, it gives us experiences we can apply to cocreation. We have an ongoing conversation on the difference between median and another separate person too given our trauma parts. Thus, I can turn around and use that knowledge to help others understand medianship in general. We also have "the gate story". Stars, our headmate, building a symbolic gate to prevent us from abusing parallel processing. And then much later, it thwarted an alter trying to escape to parallel space. That experience gives us a several insights on what parallel processing is and how it works.
Cocreation at it's core is about getting a deeper understanding of your mind and testing the limits of it. Traumamancy delivers on that front, even though its baggage kind of sucks.
