[WickedQueen]

Maybe your INTP gf helps you balancing your F.



I sometimes feels that way with my E and I functions. I get easily angry or stressed if I spent much time with people. But I get depressed and sad if I spent much time alone too.

[de l'eau salée]

Mmm ya I feel a lot like you. ....Actually ive been irratable and critical for awhile now. But ya being alone is great....I get angry when people ask too much of me.....thats when I start to feel like this...really strong need to break down the boundaries that surround me....andddd that pisses people off....which pisses me off....and haha...ya. thats a lil TMI. "I dunno what's going on, but I can't say I like it" ...ya ...that sums my life up lol

Haha yeah people can definitely inspire anger....
But yeah, it's too bad that it's happening :(. Ah well though, do you feel like it isn't really affecting you over the internet?

[thehigher]

Haha yeah people can definitely inspire anger....
But yeah, it's too bad that it's happening :(. Ah well though, do you feel like it isn't really affecting you over the internet?

ya the internet is great haha. i can think about what im gonna say before i say it...and i cant read peoples faces....which is kinda an up and down. but ya its cool though.

[Psilo]

I asked about your age because honestly, you sound quite a bit like myself right after I graduated high school. I've noticed this in many of your posts.

After high school I set out on my own and realized I finally had the time to focus on myself and my needs. It's been a journey, and it still is. I'm only three years out and I'm unrecognizable as the same person, in a good way. I'm no less infp, only more confident and happy with myself.

It wasn't an accident, either. I made purposeful changes in my perspective. I didn't lie to myself. I did honest searching of what I wanted from myself and how to attain that. I feel like I can't continue with my life until I have myself sorted. Here is where I'm at, though. I watch the world spin on while I'm just trying to find all the pieces of myself.

As far as the relationship goes, I've only been in one before and it turned unhealthy as I was absorbed. I put in too much of myself to the wrong person and lost it. I don't know how it applies to you, just keep your head.

I don't know what help I can really extend to you. I just can't help but respond to your posts; they are very relatable. Thanks.

[thehigher]

Maybe your INTP gf helps you balancing your F.

I sometimes feels that way with my E and I functions. I get easily angry or stressed if I spent much time with people. But I get depressed and sad if I spent much time alone too.

Ya maybe. Ya im the same way. Even though I'm introverted I still need people...ya.

[thehigher]

I asked about your age because honestly, you sound quite a bit like myself right after I graduated high school. I've noticed this in many of your posts.

After high school I set out on my own and realized I finally had the time to focus on myself and my needs. It's been a journey, and it still is. I'm only three years out and I'm unrecognizable as the same person, in a good way. I'm no less infp, only more confident and happy with myself.

It wasn't an accident, either. I made purposeful changes in my perspective. I didn't lie to myself. I did honest searching of what I wanted from myself and how to attain that. I feel like I can't continue with my life until I have myself sorted. Here is where I'm at, though. I watch the world spin on while I'm just trying to find all the pieces of myself.

As far as the relationship goes, I've only been in one before and it turned unhealthy as I was absorbed. I put in too much of myself to the wrong person and lost it. I don't know how it applies to you, just keep your head.

I don't know what help I can really extend to you. I just can't help but respond to your posts; they are very relatable. Thanks.

WOO super helpful. Well I would enjoy chatting with you or something soon if you don't mind since we are apparently very similar. I'm really happy for you. That's quite an accomplishment being able to follow your own path especially with how sensitive we are to the world around us and all. But ya...weee should chat soon

[flyintheointment]

I feel less infp.

I am confused and scared ....imagine that....scared of losing my INFPness. I find myself longing to feel the depths of emotions that I once did....but everytime I listen to music or follow my emotions.....my Te kicks in and rationalizes.....it is very odd....something that I am unfamiliar with.

I can relate to two points you've made.

1) Almost every test defines me as an INFP, but P was never strong. I think I'm either closer to INFJ or INTP. Not quite sure. Since I bought into the idea that I am INFP, I just went with it without questioning this devotion to one type. So, there are characteristics which I have which I doubt are INFP, but yet for some reason, I am so attached to the type that I'm finding it hard to let it go. It's almost as if I've shaped my thinking, attitude, and responses to fit this type, whether or not that's realistically who I am.

2) Like you, I was a very intense feeler when I was young. I felt things deeply, in ways many others, especially the more rational among us, wouldn't. It is difficult to maintain interest and devotion to particular INFP qualities because most of society presents the image of the realist thinker as the ideal, and emotional individuals or feelers are not considered realist or rational. This makes it difficult to embrace those qualities unique to INFPs.

INFPs can lose a bit of themselves in the need to accommodate the realist and rational tendencies of the larger society. I mean, we can't forever be Peter Pan. We have to grow up sometime, but that loss of innocence, passion, and deeply felt emotion unique to our type is lost, since it is considered a weakness and a burden to other types, so we let it go, so that we can get along with everyone else.

Peter Pan & Anne, RIP

[Kevinaswell]

Duuuuuuudddddddeeeeeee just rock that shit.

Who knows? Maybe you are having a little shift change type dealy.

Enjoy it, though. Stop thinking about it like you're losing something, and instead think of it more as an addition. You're feelings are still there, yo. Look, check it out.

.....See? Still there? Told ya.

[Linesky]

it's true what Rosa says in the beginning of the thread, every function has its goods and issues. [/interlude nr1]

And typism is retarded. Kind-of. [/interlude nr 2]

Regarding your changes: Roll with it. You can always return to theories for self-clarification, but the 'issue' of being lies in your own hands.