'I don't hate anything about myself, but one perplexing thing is the seemingly unlimited capacity to feel sadness... Sometimes it's just there, and the reasons, solutions, or any salient details seem...|||Has anyone found any useful methods for dealing with the opposing sides of their INFP personality?  I have found that the Fi/Ne side of me desires something (which I can't yet identify) much...|||Hi all,  I've been struggling for quite a few years with this insatiable craving for some kind of realization, answer, or transcendent epiphany of some sort to a vague, unending sense of...|||The unhealthy to healthy journey for me was a few years of therapy while in college. Then it was just working (as a teacher) and getting really into it day in and day out even though it sucked a lot...|||I have been encouraged by the recent news that Sweden is switching to a 6 hour workday. It shows that slowly some pockets of our mass conscious are aware that it doesn't need to be this way and we...|||Thank you both for your responses. :-)  Two things really rang true: One, that I should disconnect myself from time measurements on my day off, and cut out the activities that haven't been working...|||Anyone got any advice for me?  I'm currently working a job that I am sure many would want -- I am teaching English in Japan. However, I am at a big corporation, and while certainly the environment...|||Today at work I was telling my coworker about a show I watched on Netflix. I said it was a Netflix Original Series because that's what it said in the beginning of every episode. She said quite...|||I think like any average Fi user, I am constantly weighing the good and evil of my emotions, thoughts, impulses, sensations, etc. I have a lot of inner anger and messed up emotions centered...|||I constantly feel guilty and feel very close to and aware of many feelings, thoughts, perceptions, and behaviors that I consider evil, bad, abject, etc.  The average person who knows me will...|||Makes sense. My tritype usually seems to be 461. I frequently worry, like how Quang described, about becoming a drug addict, about losing my mind, etc.  However, I had early traumatic experiences...|||Which enneagram type is the most likely to feel an acute anxiety about being bad or evil? To wrestle with an obsessive fear at the prospect of, in the future, committing evil actions, the...|||Thank you all. Very good advice here. And even in the simplest sense it feels better to know that there are others who understand this particular experience of life.  What gets me lately is the...|||How do you deal with the hypervigilance and irritability?  I've been without it for weeks at least, and suddenly it's come up today and it's really freaking me out.  Any general advice on how to...|||I forgot I made this thread...  The emptiness feelings subsided. But one morning I woke up in extreme tension and decided it was time to get in contact with my birth mother.  So I found her info...|||WTF do I do?  Almost every day, I am losing my shit with anxiety that I'm going to develop schizophrenia, or bipolar, or borderline, or whatever. I recently was evaluated through the MMPI-II by my...|||AddictiveMuse I'm glad someone understands my perception of emotions. haha. Means I'm not completely off or strange, I suppose.|||Thanks for the response. :-)  I can't tell if it is emptiness, restlessness, anxiety, sadness, or what. Like I said, it's weird, because usually I understand emotions really well.  It's just this...|||So lately I've been having this occasional feeling of emptiness. That is quite unusual for me. Even when I'd get depressed, I'd be feeling quite a lot. It was just all bad things - mostly...|||I have had a deep love for Elliott Smith's music and what I understand about him as a human being for several years now.  What are some of your favorite songs of his?|||I posted in this thread over a year ago but I am going to again.  Since that post, I have recognized that I am INFP 6w5. I have also recognized the extent to which being adopted and abused has...|||This is a three year old post, but I just came across it and it is very inspiring to me. :-)|||The boy laid awake for nine hours after bedtime Memories of the day twisting themselves round his chest Each detail bastardized with the bent of personal responsibility Jagged, rusting memories...|||This is silly, but it troubles me that Daniel Johnston had a psychotic break and is perceived to be 4w3/6w5, because I am INFP 6w5 4w3 and have had a lifelong phobia of losing my mind.  I know it's...|||Sadness is the lights all off after 6:30 pm on a dull winter day The quiet crust on the kitchen floor Unkempt hair and toenails Piles of rubbish; tissues and cellophane beside my bed Heaps of...|||I might say more later but what I noticed right now in thinking about myself and INTPs I know is that INTPs are ever hungry for more knowledge. My INTP roommate says she could read thousands of books...|||This computer did a weird one and somehow made a double post...|||I really admire that ability for holding multiple perspectives at once while not being limited by feelings. :-)  I do see Fi as valuable. I just, perhaps, have some Tness envy and want to hone my...|||Being an INFP, I understand what you mean. I have been dating an ENTJ for over a year, and while I always understand her logic, and match her analytical abilities most of the time, it has been an...|||I also vote that this thread gets stickied. It is very neat and concise. And, of course, the summative descriptions appear to be very accurate.|||I hate to do this again, and this will be the last time I ask for it, but I really do not like the way my username looks with the capital I.  So, I would like my name to henceforth be...|||INFJs are such beautiful people... They are far and away the most true, loving, earnest people I've met. My adoptive father is an INFJ and I have never known or conceived of a more respectable and...|||There's certainly much potential for that sort of pairing to blow up. The INFP often has an issue with feeling controlled (or maybe that's just me) and becomes moody, which the ENTJ doesn't...|||Weird, that's like my partner and me.  I always thought it was a winning sort of match, as unique as it is.  My ENTJ girlfriend is 13 years older than me. It is interesting and feels very natural.|||Famous INFPs - CelebrityTypes.com  Louis C.K.: With movies, [what] I really loved [was] moments and tones and feelings in a  scene, and I loved creating those.   Louis C.K.: I never viewed...|||Louis CK is a RAGING INFP.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c#t=239  Listen to him describe the feels. Listen to it.  I connected with what he was saying so much that I actually...|||I agree with you, on the surface it doesn't make much sense what she's doing. She's an ENTJ and is protective of herself and doesn't do well with having to constantly dole out emotions. But she has...|||Hello all,  I've mentioned my PTSD here a couple times but never so completely. I will do so now. I hope the process of typing through everything proves valuable. I would like this thread to be...|||I would like my name to be changed to Intrsrchng.  Thank you.|||That is a good point, Te is actually something I am working on. I've noticed this nasty tendency of mine to constantly ponder meaning. If I go for a walk, my mind immediately begins grinding at What...|||Many INFPs become dominated by their Fi, such that they are hypersensitive, irrational, and isolated. While I certainly have a long way to go in my personal development, I have found the world much...|||Am still with this girl, one year later. Met on YouTube; she saw my old channel and sent me a long, pretty perplexingly emo message. We are perfect for each other.  Also, turns out we were both...|||Wow, no dreams, you say? I am very curious about this imagination control you speak of. Without being nosey, I'm wondering what your intention is with mitigating that. Also, I'm wondering if you've...|||Well, it does immediately make sense to me that this issue is just hypervigilance. And since I don't usually have anything even remotely dangerous in my life, my hypervigilance reacts constantly to...|||Yes, I actually do have PTSD.|||While I typically shy away from applying mental illnesses or personality disorder clusters to personality types, I'm wondering how many other INFP folks here experience this sort of constant anxiety...|||I'll chime in a bit late here as an INFP just to say that I've been reading through this thread in a public cafe, listening to Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead, and fighting back all my emo tears...|||I get so many likes for this comment and it turns out I'm not even an INTP. huahuahua  Internet typology stuff seems more and more over the years to be just a bunch of people looking for neato...|||You're already here, you'll die anyway, so I guess one might as well stick around and see if anything interesting happens.  Also, I believe that seriously entertaining suicide and following that...|||Hi all,  I used to roam these INTP parts for about a year (most of my posts are in here) and I seem to generally get along very well with INTPs. I appreciate your logical deductions and honest...'