i'm a mix of irish and italian. i was born in australia but my irish family came to australia from singapore, and kept bits and pieces of that culture. i consider myself australian. i'm exreamely...|||stop. dont stress. what is it that your not dealing with. breathe, attack it. start over again. its never to late to press the reset button.  i feel the same right now. and i cant fix it. not yet,...|||this month will be the greatest challenge. i will finish my semester at uni before checking myself into hospital. i will survive long enough. just one more month.|||Entr0py  yeah i agree with everything you said. that is exactly what it is like with my bf and i.   the empathy vs solution dilemma is never resolved. we have a balance where i had to learn to...|||i think your right there.|||i have a panic disorder, and i'm an INFP. i think that my personality contributes to it. but there are also lifestyle factors and life experiences that i think play a massive part. if i wasn't an...|||there is 10 years between me 19(INFP) and my BF 29(INTP).  sometimes its totally natural. other times its exhausting. he has learnt many life lessons, and cant understand why i haven't gained the...|||hahaha. you remind my of my INTP boyfriend. he says the same things.  i do think INTP's are rude arse holes that i can't understand. i do. very much so. but i also love them to pieces. i think its...|||INFP's are not the polyanna's of the personality world. even though its always thought that we are.  i'm really sorry about how you feel. its tough, and its hard to work your way out of. but its...|||the inner bully beats me, and crushes me down till only the raw self is left.   self destructive and desperate.  but its not the end. i think INFP's are very idealist, and while that fuels the...|||i control my life tightly to minimise the variables that lead to panic attacks, i live in total fear of them. what i eat and how much. what i wear, the make up i wear, i schedule my life hour by...|||I do this too. so your certainly not alone.   it hurts, alot.  recently i started introducing 'safe foods' which are foods i eat without counting. they are foods with high nutritional content,...|||thank you guys.xo   we do actually have a good relationship. he does balance out my inability to think reasonably, and i counter his absolute reliance on logic. for example, when i get upset, he...|||sometimes i pity my INTP boyfriend.   he talks down to me as if being more 'emotion' driven makes me childish or stupid.  but he has no concept of empathy, or contextual behaviour.   i'm much...