'I'm feeling really low this evening. I have a recurring pain problem in my right foot... the sudden drop in temperature outside is making it twinge something dreadful. I've been taking really good...|||Rrrrghhh... I feel so angry! Trying to keep it in check since I've been lashing out at my girlfriend quite a bit lately and I know she's had a long, hard day. (Poor thing, she already fell asleep.) ...|||I've always struggled with anxiety. It was especially bad when I was a small child, it was always there gnawing at my gut but I didn't have a word for the feeling. By the time I got to college, I...|||I am so bone tired. Too many people and I feel burnt out. Things feel kind of awkward and stilted with my girlfriend of 3 1/2 years, because we're both really busy and stressed out, to stressed out...|||Well, I have professional diagnoses of social anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. Having no access to private space makes me acutely uncomfortable. Basically,...|||Hi there.  So, I work in a pretty typical corporate office, in a cubicle. I actually quite enjoy my job. However, today it was announced that the higher-ups are 99% sure we're going to switch from...|||You're such a strong person. You're kind of an inspiration really. You're so cute! You have such a calming influence. You really have it all together. (ha ha ha, not true but I...|||What a terrible day. I couldn't even contain my tears till I got home so I put my hand over my nose and mouth and squeezed my eyes shut in an effort to keep from sobbing. My foot still hasn't healed...|||I hardly ever feel lonely and am actually quite pleased with how many friends/acquaintances I've cobbled together in recent years, because I used to be super-solitary. I don't have a LOT of social...|||I was super touchy. Very fussy, very easily made upset. I screamed whenever we went anywhere new (restaurants for example) so my parents just stopped taking me places. (Not saying that's necessarily...|||Ugh I really really really hate scholarship applications.|||Today I realized I feel more love & affection for music/beauty/art/the universe/etc than for other people.  In fact, when I felt tender & vulnerable toward another person recently, it kind of blew...|||I think there are two pieces, really.  I feel like it's important to always be trying to improve yourself, because if not, you're living in stasis, so why are you even living (that's how I see it...|||People call me smarter than I call myself. I grew up hearing I was smart, was in advanced classes, got good grades without really trying, etc. But I often wonder about what intelligence really...|||I've always been very fond of my face. I haven't really ever done that thing where I stare in the mirror and analyze my nose or whatever, not even when I was in high school. Very much like my...|||I used to be sick with cold symptoms for about a week out of every month. That was when I was really stressed in college & high school, super-busy, had a bad home life, etc.  My physical health is...|||It's been 4 years or so since I last wrote seriously. I think I've lost my writer's voice, and have no idea how to get it back again...  I really feel like I used to have potential, everyone told...|||Overeating, alcohol, chocolate, coffee, videogames.|||I'm dancing alone to club music at bar close alone in my apartment. I'm so lonely I can hardly stand it, but I'll keep drinking apple pie schnapps until I forget that bit of it and just lose myself...|||PEOPLE WHO BLARE MUSIC THROUGH THEIR HEADPHONES IN PUBLIC PLACES. It drives me insane. I cannot for the life of me understand why there is no socially acceptable way to tell people they are being...|||I am gonna just echo what my therapist tells me all the time:  You don't have to DO anything to be good enough. You have always been good enough, and you are good enough, and you always will be...|||Thank you for this! I have been thinking lately about how often I am moved to tears by music / being out in nature etc, and how grateful I am for that. I suppose I'm much more vulnerable to emotions...|||Just so tired and agitated all at once. So much internal stress and not sure how to diffuse it. Maybe this is what my therapist means when she says I need to learn the practical skill of how to take...|||I've always tested as INFJ, but lately I've been testing as INTJ. I can feel the slow shift over from feeling into thinking too... it feels strange and rigid and tiring. So maybe it's not real. I'm...|||On the outside, I'm really proud to be an INFJ. On the inside I'm still working on chipping away at all the years of feeling like I was inferior or crazy or strange. It's a slow process. But I think...|||Ugh. It is cold and gray and bleak and has been for days. It's almost June, so the heat is off in our apartment, so here I sit freezing to death and feeling glum as hell. As if I don't already for at...|||Definitely true... I broke the same bone in my foot TWICE in one year because I went too hard. Good to remember, especially since the moderation point probably extends beyond physical things as...|||Well, this friend I had threatened me with physical harm when I refused to date him. So I went to the police, and never saw or talked to him again... completely scary and unacceptable, I will not...|||Oh my gosh ALL THE TIME. In fact it's a topic that comes up a lot with my therapist. She expresses concern that I overextend myself on a regular basis, trying to DO ALL THE THINGS, but I tell her...|||I'm only 25 but I have no urge to settle down. I'm a really committed person, but I just don't see the point in rushing into marriage. I honestly don't care that much about ever being married, to be...|||Sometimes, the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it's the place where the music comes through. - Andrea Gibson, Gospel Salt|||Hmm... I don't know if it's exactly the same thing, but I get something similar. Anything really beautiful, like a painting, a symphony, etc. makes me feel really withdrawn and sad. Like, I enjoy it,...|||^_^; Pretty much. It's not really intentional, just kinda happens. Thankfully, my closest friends understand (though most people don't/are offended).|||Yeah, this happens a lot. Try as I might, I always kind of drift off and come back. If I focus really hard, I can be more present for the conversation, but it's quite tiring. I think it's gotten...|||Nope. Nothing good, anyway. I don't do a lot of rap or anything, but with any kind of poetry I always need like three drafts before it's palatable.|||Hmm... I don't know what anyone else does, but I look everywhere except in people's eyes. I always want to, but I find meeting other people's eyes so intense & intimate that I can't prolong it, and I...|||Self-respect and self-confidence.|||I do try to eat healthily, and really like fruits, veggies, whole grains. But when I'm stressed, anything that is instantly edible is what I eat. Crackers and cereal out of the box, cold leftovers,...|||I hate hate hate hate HATE INTERVIEWS!!!!  I have three interviews between now and Tuesday, and I feel about ready to explode. I'm quite socially anxious, so interviews are one of my biggest fears....|||Aqualung and daydr3am - Thanks for the suggestions! My thyroid and my blood have both been checked, and it all came out OK. One of the doctors said that I *did* have a somewhat low red blood cell...|||Thanks everyone for the input! It might very well be an emotional thing. I hadn't really thought of that... it IS encouraging to hear that maybe all INFJs aren't tired all the time; makes me hopeful...|||Hey all.  Do you consider yourself to be a low-energy person? What do you do about it?  My experience: I regulate my energy the best I can, but I feel continually frustrated by how taxing it is...|||Zech I still don't really think being an INFJ comes from a traumatic childhood, exactly, but what you said about the link between insecure attachment & depression/anxiety makes sense. Maybe the real...|||Sorry, OP, I can't contribute much, except to say that I have trouble with this too. I can usually tell a fair amount about people, but I have a total blind spot when it comes to whether people want...|||Oh no! I'm a lesbian, and I can't imagine being stuck in a small town. I hope you can move to a bigger city once you graduate! Things became a LOT better for me (sexually and socially) once I went to...|||Fehhhh, I didn't care about it much, in the traditional sense. By which I mean I never saw virginity as a stamp of shame or virtue or whatever. Mostly I wanted to get the damn thing over with because...|||I had a somewhat traumatic childhood (absent, neglectful and/or unsupportive parents), but I don't think it made me an INFJ, per se. During the worst years, I withdrew more into myself and tested...|||I appear laid-back, but I'm secretly pretty reactive. That is, under times of stress, people always comment on how I seem calm/to have it together/etc but my body is very tense, I feel anxious, my...|||Wow... so many responses! It feels like too much to respond to everyone individually... but thanks to everyone for the input. :proud: I'm glad I'm not alone.|||Can I ask how old you are? I know everybody develops at different times, etc, but I'm curious. I like to think I'll get more comfortable with my shell with age.    Thanks MoltenHorse. :) For the...'