'*** I want to add that I think the experience I did have with pharmaceuticals, that day of HAPPY, and since that recalibrating my norm to be in a much better place (having a bad night, sorry!),...|||I've dealt with depression my entire life as well, though it took years and years to be aware of that, as it's basically my norm. I want to say that I believe depression is bidirectional in terms of...|||Martian Child Mulholland Drive Decent In Praise of Love  those all fucked me up, erm, affected me deeply and needed time to digest.|||Well, you're not a J type, so I suspect you don't need to have it all figured out in advance as much as you're perhaps overwhelmed with all the possible scenarios you can imagine, knowing full well...|||Geez Loise. Sounds like the despair, frustration, and confusion you mention are your feelings screaming to be heard against the thick SAFE wall of your intellect, where you are attempting to escape...|||so, how is the quest for emotional experience coming along? did you read the book?|||I feel my essence is immaterial, not of matter but of energy, an energy of consciousness, so really I feel my essence is my consciousness. My consciousness is my being. Yet there is so much more to...|||I think it is fine to have an ulterior intellectual motivation: hmmmm, I would like to expand my Fe, perhaps I will make a post to the INFPs and excavate their secrets MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... however,...|||I know she gets into specific emotions later in the book, but as far as I've gotten she's mostly been intellectually explaining her paradigm of the human psyche- how emotions work and fit into it,...|||I just started this book, and I love it. I think she writes in such a way that she's not over intellectualizing emotions themselves, but she honors the intellect as much as emotions and I think that...|||You. Are. A. Robot.|||I don't have an objective perspective on the world, so I can't say if there is a balance in the spectrum of joy and pain.   However, how many people fell in love to day? My sister got married...|||It helps me to think of it as meditative. Seriously, I found being a dishwasher meditative. Try to get in 'the zone' and it's possible for it to be energizing even!!! Not always easy to do, and often...|||... and your hopes, and your fears, and your joy, and your sorrow, your pleasure... AND your pain! is it empathy to feel another's pain only? I know it's the title of the thread, but... I think it's...|||Empathy, literally! lately my dreams have been really real, like i'm somatically experiencing my dreams. which can be great, but it can also be awful- when it comes to pain for example.   I think...|||Favorite movie that I've seen a million times since childhood: The Last Unicorn, in all it's questing mythical glory.   Favorite movie I saw once that shook me to the core: Youth Without Youth-...|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMhfnliKGn8|||keepin it REAL  17191|||i actually HATE sneezing! nothing orgasmic about it for me :(    in fact i get really pissed off and start swearing *ACHOO* FUCK! *ACHOOACHOACHOACHOOO* FUCKINGHELL until i just start crying in...|||17188   those moments of pure joyous laughter- the most perfect unity.|||actually, I wouldn't be surprised if she was INFP|||Wow, thanks for expanding upon and sharing your thoughts.   I'm actually pretty sick and tired at the moment (literally!) but this reminded me of something I came up with in a stupid English class,...|||i remember when I used to think this way- attempting to brainwash myself even, that LOVE is the only thing that matters...|||yes, and when our sensory experience can merge with our inner experience, it's such an awesome transcendent feeling isn't it?    :) that's exactly it- knowing it's a good practice, then actually...|||Yeah, that's usually meant in a patronizing way to us INFP types, but, I've found it to be a good balancing practice to cultivate my sensory experience of being- it's so easy to loose myself in the...|||I'd like to share this passage I recently come across, in reading about Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy.   Ultimate meaningfulness- seems that's the Fi-driven quest! Not only Ultimate meaningfulness,...|||http://youtu.be/v9svxE49Ngs|||so interesting- thanks for posting. i think looking at these things in the context of enneagram is especially helpful for healing, as it encompasses a range of both unhealthy levels AND healthy...|||Belle makes perfect sense to me! Being able to see the true essence despite the surface appearance for one thing :)|||It hurts. It hurts even more to pretend it's ok. But not as much as having to talk about it.|||That's what I do on the rare occasion I have some sort of party - and it always hits me once everyone gets there that most of them don't know each other, and I'm so bad at interacting with people...|||Congrats, and I must say...... FINALLY!!!   http://www.jamisonking.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/robot-turtle_web.jpg|||I was actually asked this in an interview the other day- I said Johnny Depp. Then I went on a tangent how I wasn't trying to make a statement about gender, it's just that he plays such interesting,...|||YES my old ENFP friend could bring it out of me like no one else- though when it went bad it went really bad :frustrating:   though I was happy when I first found PC and realized that though it's a...|||Thank you. That's the thing too.... when you are faithful to faith, so to speak, sometimes what feels like emptiness at first forces (or invites, to be more positive!) us to find a higher...|||Thanks everyone! I had an epiphany of my own this morning that I want to share too- I had a dream about a hummingbird last night, I tried to catch it (I'm good at catching birds IRL), and I felt how...|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm_3mwmpmWI|||How have you learned to cope, to endure, to heal? It's like overwhelming positive emotions are great, but then we get the equal and opposite overwhelming negative emotions.... I actually don't even...|||exactly. the mind freeze is the hardest part too. i feel like i may as well start drooling while i'm at it, at that point. j/k.|||I find it easier to hide in group situations, than one on one. Though I prefer one on one connections... I can have a hard time with them if I'm shutting down inside.   Do you know your enneagram?...|||for me too... i love violin concertos for this reason.   YouTube - Heifetz-Mendelssohn Violin Concerto E Minor (Op. 64)-Part 1|||my motto has become 'delusion dreams, realistic goals' ... that's my recipe for making dreams come true anyway :)  i mean... dreams are SUPPOSED to be unrealistic!!! and clinging to them,...|||I think Aya Takano likes to paint INFPS :)  http://www.galerieperrotin.com/FM_WEB/oeuvre/photo/Aya_Takano/aya-takano-9362_1.jpg|||Freaking out|||i am freaking out having to go meet someone for coffee for the first time! i have been rendered almost completely disfunctional with social anxiety! yet i know i'll go and i'll probably have fun and...|||did they start relationships, or DIDN'T they?   oh ho!|||http://g.virbcdn.com/i/resize_575x575/PageImage-352801-1548403-ooak493.JPG|||Are you talking about romantic fantasies only? Problem is I'll play them out thinking it's real only for reality to smack me in the face. Disillusionment's a bitch I like to say. Though I fear I've...|||I suspect us introverted types may be a less obvious kind of crazy, we keep our crazy on the inside...  or, stay inside for the crazy.|||this is the last song that made me cry. (i just heard it a few days ago for the first time)   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DuLTxgDVXA'