'Hopeful. Accepting to let go for a while, replenish and have another go at it.|||My outside image probably matches the words of Arclight so I may indeed appear snobbish to some people, but my mind is definitely what Kharyzmatiq described, a succession of fortifications and they...|||Thanks for the list!  I go through phases of music genres. It used to be pop (from the mid 90s), then I switched to hard rock (late 90s/00), then it was jazz/swing and now I have this Blues /...|||I'm seriously laughing out loud reading this :D Thanks! I'm pushing it but...I wouldn't mind more happy song sugestions:tongue:  Here's one that I can think of :] ...|||Lovely first post. Thanks for sharing.|||I am going to read your answers over and over again until they sink in. Thanks you very much !!|||I have the exact same issue and it's threatening my work where I have to keep up with constant innovation ^^;   Also, I am passionate about playing music and I always have people make big eyes when...|||How do you stop the spiral?   I read Feeling Good: the new mood therapy by David Burns, which presented interesting ways to do that but they don't seem to be quite sufficient for me.   Would...|||others from feeling disappointed in me. i'm tired.|||never going to understand how people feel confident|||making more enemies in your head than in the real world...or so at least I've been feeling|||What I expected to have when grown up: - career - righteousness - cheerfulness - strength - friendships - love  The reality: - isolation|||I'm back down in the dumps.  My unshakable expectations: - career - righteousness - cheerfulness - confidence and strength - friendships - love|||1/ because there is nothing to apologize for. you were positive and careful. 2/ because I feel like I am emotionally manipulating the person I apologize to when there is really nothing to apologize...|||the teeny tiny Se that grows out under stress and gives you a cold reality shower >_<|||I really identify with you on the complementing best friend gone his way.   Asking permission to compliment is not crazy. Crazy by my standards would be harassing her at work with no regard for her...|||Anytime. I get rid of my moods mostly in written form, so keep it coming!  I really need to understand how some people find sleep in minutes. Cause I usually count it in hours! (  =_= )|||I open a new Google text document and I write and write without ever looking at grammar, spelling or structure. I write until I run out of thoughts or ways of expressing them. sometimes I write so...|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWEPu0w-7w|||Open a fresh document on your computer or take a sheet of paper or your phone and log your thoughts every time you sense some emotion, and score them from -5 [worst mood] to +5 [best mood]. Example:...|||no problem. at some point in the song the singer says imagination brings bliss at no cost and that pretty much saves my mind. good luck.|||very nice!  fills with hope.|||This is a good anger antidote for me   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJnqr5sm7-s  if you like it check out the other 4 parts.|||This is an ideal workplace for me:  - has strong ethics (tough when you seek a good pay too) - fosters a cooperative style (or at least, nothing is gained by undermining others' work) - allows...|||...coen brothers' movies have direct access to your soul|||forget about those silly questions, I just have (or learned) too much expectations from myself|||Thank you for the enlightening post, Anahata.   I will leave this country in 8 months, I'm struggling not to forfeit before that actually, the reason follows.  I am by observation inferior to...|||EDIT: removed a negative comment. To the young people applying to college, by all means do so because that's your instinct speaking. And listen to it some more to know what specialty to take, ...|||Thanks a lot See Above, it's heart-warming.  I've started my life from the opposite side, perceiving that everyone was judging me or would potentially. So I became eager to please and get praise. ...|||I am at the unhealthy level 7 of type 4 :frustrating:|||unico: very sensible. I am so bad at this though. I confided into someone I trusted a lot recently but then I discovered that I was being manipulated. I am too naive and my promptness to help and...|||It is a most sensible idea, but shameful as it may sound, I have always repressed it. I dread making a fool of myself in public, of appearing incompetent and I feel a lot of responsibility towards...|||this is for you and all of us strong and fragile souls.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NHjUEdiebE|||I have  no doubt that I cannot make anything great on my own. I've never had anything to offer except a readiness to help, with knowledge mostly. I guess I've  been trying to win affection in...|||Thank you so much guys, I really appreciate.  See Above, thank you so much for caring. Here's how I'd sum it up:  I'm 30 and my adult life has been about work and a few fulfilling friendships. ...|||you are an INFx if know what a hikikomori is you can go weeks without checking the news your aging mirror reflection is forcing your Se function out|||Hi  In the brief moments of calm I realize that much of my suffering comes from a misplaced pride, extreme avoidance of any help. I've been helpless and hopeless lately, so much that I had no...|||inadequate, inacceptable, unreliable, doomed.|||Love is a painful restlessness about someone else.|||Probably some living dead reflex to put on a mask|||Interesting, I have not realized there were MBTI versus keirsey temp [I guess it goes with my tendency to overlook details]. The personalitycafe test gave INFJ, others tests I found here and there...|||I'm sorry, I kinda replied in bits n pieces, you probably just saw the dictionary quote. I'm new to the whole personality typing thing, I have only a vague understanding. I get INFP out of online...|||[source: thefreedictionary dot com] burnout n. 3.b. One who is worn out physically or emotionally, as from long-term stress.  [source: me] a cognitive and behavioral breakdown. A lingering...|||Hi  I think I am slowly but surely escaping my real world into this newly discovered addiction of people typing.  So here's an attempt at modeling my chameleon personality.  *** IMPORTANT:...|||inspiring!  I never ever thought about marketing before, but I guess it's consumer psychology after all. An NF could do well here and probably in other applied-psychology fields too.  This is a...|||Thanks a lot! I'll give it a shot. If I had the chance I would have selected an art-tech combination of a degree. But that's just risky speculation , I'm INFP so I could always find something to be...|||thank you strawberryLola  I'd use my good mood moments to elaborate a new routine and enjoy it for some time but then a trifling matter happens and the emotional response takes over so I give up...|||Hi yall  I did some tests and I got INFJ and INFP. I found I could relate to things from both dedicated fora so it does not really matter. What does though is what I could make of it to get better....|||Thanks!! Looks indeed like I will be learning a lot and hopefully get an intuition about my next career move.|||Hello people!  I'm coming from of a long professional burnout. After months of mood swings and anxiety, I took a move toward self-help books, a new world to me. I read Feeling Good: the new mood...'