[username]

I have a crappy job that forces me to use mostly Si and Fe. I've been working forty hours for the last six months and have noticed that I have become increasingly discontent, irrational, and even paranoid at times. Outside of work, I haven't had much time to myself, either, because I've been spending most of my free time with my boyfriend. Recently, I've significantly cut back my hours because I'll be starting classes, so that should help. Since I've realized what the problem may be, I've been spending more time alone, and there has been a significant improvement in my mood. I feel so much more stable. Can anyone relate to this?

[tangosthenes]

I have a crappy job that forces me to use mostly Si and Fe. I've been working forty hours for the last six months and have noticed that I have become increasingly discontent, irrational, and even paranoid at times. Outside of work, I haven't had much time to myself, either, because I've been spending most of my free time with my boyfriend. Recently, I've significantly cut back my hours because I'll be starting classes this fall, so that definitely helps. Since I've realized what the problem may be, I've been spending more time alone, and there has been a significant improvement in my mood. I feel so much more stable. Can anyone relate to this?

Yeah I have had this happen to me before. Our tertiary and inferior functions are naturally underdeveloped and when we rely on them to a large degree, their immaturity shows. It can start to feel like you're going crazy.

[BUtheBabyUnicorn]

Yeah, I've definitely experienced this, especially when at sleepaway summer camps. >_<
After about a week of them I'm irritable, illogical, and just overall very unhappy (group projects usually have the same effect). I can't imagine going away for eight weeks like most girls my age do, or using Fe and Si in a job for six months.
After I got back from my first (and last) week of sleepaway summer camp two years ago I shut myself in my on-suite bathroom, and locked both my bedroom and bathroom doors, with my laptop and a few pillows and blankets for at least three or four hours.

[iscem42]

It definitely happens to me. Getting fixated on negativities in the past (particularly ones concerning personal relationships) and forgetting about possibilities to change them. A hostile view towards any social norms, etc.

[username]

It definitely happens to me. Getting fixated on negativities in the past (particularly ones concerning personal relationships) and forgetting about possibilities to change them. A hostile view towards any social norms, etc.

Yes! I end up concluding that I'm irreparably broken.

[Iustinus]

Interesting - I have the same hurdle in my relations. I think once I've made a mistake, it's over. And showing someone I care is cognitive overload.

[iscem42]

Yes! I end up concluding that I'm irreparably broken.

That's exactly how I feel when it happens! I wonder how specific to NPs it may be, because I don't see it as much with others (SJs worry more about future change, etc.).

[username]

That's exactly how I feel when it happens! I wonder how specific to NPs it may be, because I don't see it as much with others (SJs worry more about future change, etc.).

I don't think ENTP's have this problem. They are much more optimistic and tend to view negative experiences as challenges they will work to overcome. My guess is that it's more of an INXP thing because it's easier to get sucked into our subjective (introverted) thinking process and lose sight of possibilities. I guess in that state Ne would start to feed the negative thinking instead of bringing in information that would aid objectivity.

[iscem42]

I think ENTP's don't have this problem as they are much more optimistic - they tend to view negative experiences as challenges they will work to overcome. I am not sure about XNFP's...

Maybe it only comes out in grip experiences, but it does seem reflective of the descriptions I've read of inferior Si. The optimism can be overshadowed in such situations, though I don't know how common they would be. Well, it'd depend a lot on personal circumstances to begin with, anyway.

[hela]

I'm super paranoid naturally, but my paranoia is usually spot-on so IS IT REALLY PARANOIA etc......... the cycle continues.

That said, SiFe loops (as... @LeaT might say) do turn up the volume.