'For the record, I think there's a certain version of the official MBTI which will measure neuroticism.  I'd also be curious to see how it correlates with the HSP trait.    Limbic here.  Enneagram...|||When in doubt about your Enneagram type, look less at the overall descriptions and more at the core motivations, fears, and directions of integration and disintegration for each type.  Also, you can...|||I have to admit that ENFPs frequently grab my eye first.  Things don't tend to work with them long-term, though...  And the few ENTPs I've been friends with/dated tend to drive me up the wall in...|||I've been single and essentially celibate for more than 3 years at present.  This is the longest since my college days that I've been without a partner of some sort.  The first 18 months wasn't too...|||I've been big on personality theory for going on 2 decades.  I never used to base anything on dating about it, except about how we're similar and different.  But over time, I noticed that it was...|||You see things so differently from everyone else I've known.|||(points over yonder, at a cute fluffy ENFP)|||If it keeps the Socionics talk out of the other forums (where it tends to confuse people), I'm all for a separate forum.|||Same here.|||ENFPs can be quite magical.  We appreciate you as well.  How to find us?  There's a whole mess of us right here.  :)  How to win us?  Be you, and slowly but surely step towards us.|||Spiritual?  (eyes username)  Yes, quite.  Every moment can be spiritual.  Religious?  No, not at all.  I have my own beliefs and my own path, and try to minimize or eliminate ceremony and dogma...|||Heh - that's happened with both ESFJs I've talked MBTI with.|||Have the mods/admins looked into some of the plugins available for vBulletin (Spam-O-Matic, KeyCaptcha, etc.) that deal with addressing and blocking spammers?  Not meaning to step on toes or...|||What's up with all the spambots taking over the General Psychology forum the last week or two?  Is there a way to IP-ban them, or otherwise persuade them to stop?|||When I was younger, I hugged rarely.  These days, I (nearly always) hug where offered, and offer where I feel appropriate.  It takes some getting used to, but I'm better for it.  :)|||I was raised by a pair of xxTJs from the military.  They didn't quite know what to do with a touchy-feely kid, and a boy at that.  A few dozen years later, after studying a LOT about people, I get...|||So I'm looking for inspiration about career(s), and I reread the INFJ section of Type Talk for Work.  Outside of the clergy, and perhaps private-practice psychology, it is not an easy lot to be...|||I generally start people off with temperaments (4), then the letters of the MBTI (8), then the cognitive functions (another 8) down the road.  ...unless it's another Fe type, and then I normally...|||There are several threads on this in the INFJ forum, with good advice from INFJs who have been/are with other INFJs.  It can be a very intense relationship - you're both seeking closeness, you're...|||3 minute lag/delay while posting a reply to a thread tonight.  It did stamp the post with the time I hit submit, though.|||Just wanted to add that this is pretty much it for me - if I know where I stand with someone I care about, I'm good.  If you make me guess, I could be described as clingy at times.  And these days,...|||To be honest, Pamala Oslie irks me a bit because she barely mentions that she lifted most of her material verbatim from her mentor, Barbara Bowers.  She wrote the original What Color is Your Aura?...|||This is exactly how my Libra INFP friend is.  Coincidentally, she was the one who got me interested in astrology.|||Taking up to 5 minutes to navigate between pages this morning.|||With moderate amounts:  - The internal critic (Enneagram 1) turns off - I become more relaxed - I get more talkative (depends on company)  With more extreme amounts:  - I become more...|||1] From memory, more INFx types than others are HSP (I want to say that 40% of HSPs were INFx, but can't find the reference).  Also, according to Dr. Aron, 30% of HSPs are extroverts, which would...|||One can always will or force yourself to quit an addiction.  However, without dealing with the root causes, it's just like lopping weeds off close to the ground instead of yanking the whole thing out...|||That'd be this survey, I believe.|||From memory, for INFJs:  4 is the most common 1s, 5s, and 6s are frequent 2s and 9s are less frequent 3s, 7s, and 8s are rare|||This phrase seems to be floated as an analogue for Borderline Personality Disorder - and having known several people with the condition, I'd have to disagree with said label.  That said, can INFJs...|||I've felt the same way - while there's been some forward motion in a few areas of my life, the rest has become a waiting game.  The problem with this particular game is that the longer whatever-it-is...|||Keirsey lined up the four groups based on the Four Temperaments.  Originally it was all middle letters - SF/ST/NF/NT, but even Myers herself said that the ST and SF groups were too vague and...|||Went ahead and updated my sig.  :D  From that link...|||Try the Middle Road(tm).  For me, personal growth - almost to the exclusion of all else.  Which really freaks people out.   >_>|||Why's that?  INFPs seem happiest with each other, according to it - and there's a whole forum full of them here.  And like with INFJs (who also seem happiest with each other), you get someone who...|||INFPs are great friends for me, not so great for me in relationships.  Also, here's an article on MBTI and marriage satisfaction research.|||I was 100% against the death penalty and believed everyone could be reformed until I did my stint in grad school for counseling.  Part of the assigned reading was an article on sociopaths.  The...|||Mirrors.  You suspect something's there, but don't know until you bump into it.  When you do and they shatter, you're confused as to where I am - which allows for an escape.  >_>|||According to Keirsey, it's an NF thing in general.  We idealize other people until they smack you hard enough that the rose-colored glasses come off - and then we go Oh hell, I did it again.  For...|||This kind of goes back to where Keirsey and Myers parted ways a few decades ago.  MBTI: measures innate preferences  KTS: measures expressed preferences  If the MBTI is truly measuring innate...|||This link points at it being a combination of nature and nurture.  So far, it's the best explanation I've found.|||I work in a service/giving profession.  I help those who ask for it the best I can.  Aside from that, the world is free to go the direction it chooses.  I used to have a strong desire to save...|||Seems that these are primarily unhealthy behaviors for each of the 9 types.  That said, the leaden rule and manipulation statements for type 1 are accurate for me.  When I see myself acting in this...|||This is how I always start.  Concrete speech and Utilitarian approach to others : SP Concrete speech and Cooperative approach to others : SJ Abstract speech and Utilitarian approach to others :...|||Inside of every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. - George Carlin|||I started off being an exceedingly safe and cautious driver.  Then I was a full-time delivery driver for four years.  That taught me to become a very good driver, at the expense of some of the...|||You're self-aware enough to predict it, but not self-aware enough to stop it?  (stands back for a minute and waits for INFJ powarz to engage)  :wink:|||I'm a 1w9, and 9w1s and I just don't really click for relationships.  I had one long-standing friendship with a 9w1, but eventually it fizzled due to the superego stuff you mentioned.  I've had one...|||Try comparing an INFJ E8 to the average INFJ E4 (or your own E6) for a bit more variance.    ...though the INFJ E8 isn't likely to be the model of conflict-avoidant...  :wink:|||As many have mentioned, lots of things make INFJs look different.  - Enneagram - two INFJs of different types can be VERY different in how they portray themselves.  The stereotypical INFJ seems to...'