nnngh-worthy stuff and personality types

[evocates]

Hitting burnout and reaching a point where I annoy the fuck out of myself when a tinny little voice in my head goes "no one likes meeeee I suckkkkkkk and I will always suckkkkk please give me validationnnnnn". It's fucking annoying, let me tell you. It has a lot to do with my attempts to not kill myself with overwork and changing "write 6000 words

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[rubyelf]

I like the Meyers-Briggs tests... they are interesting, but what I come out as has changed over time. Lately it's had me as an INFJ, but the middle two tend to switch back and forth depending on my mood when I answer the test... I'm always very close to the middle on both of those... sometimes it comes up as ISTJ. So the introversion and the tendency to judgement remain consistent....

[evocates]

HAH, that's odd. I think it might be that my perception of you is entirely online, but I've always pegged you to be an E_FP. It's even more interesting that your mood changes S/N, because from what I've heard it's the most stable trait in people: how they receive information and gain their knowledge doesn't really ever change. This is absolutely fascinating. 8D

[rubyelf]

I don't know with how busy you've been if you've read any of my recent posts about my mother and finding out that basically everything she has ever told me about myself and what a screwed-up, troubled, delicate, emotionally disturbed child I was happens to all be a complete bag of lies... even my counselor says she's extremely pathologically sick and that what she did is really rather disturbing. But I think I have always pictured myself a certain way because that's the way I always ASSUMED I was... for example, I tend to overestimate my introversion because of things like that. And as for the S/N, I think it's a conflict between the way I was TOLD I am, and the way I actually am...

Tell you what... when I get back from Home Depot with Honey I'll take the test again, knowing what I know now about my entire perception of myself from early childhood on being a lie, and see what I come up with, and I'll get back to you!

[rubyelf]

Did the test again and came out as INFJ again. However, I came out with a 1% difference between thinking and feeling, so it could just as easily be INTJ. I fall fairly close to the line between introvert and extrovert, but what puts me in the former category is the fact that I have to be pushed pretty hard to go out and be social... I'd prefer to be at home in peace and quiet... but a lot of that could have to do with the tics. I seem to come up with N more often than S when I take it.. I think I just don't quite know how to answer their questions. My counselor says I am the perfect storm between my mother's uncontrollable mood disorder and my father's constant rationalizing, so maybe I don't know where I fall on that line. I am always RIGHT on the line between thinking and feeling, so I think those two are basically of equal importance for me, but the INFJ fits me better than any of the other ones. Also, Keirsey describes this personality type as "The Counselor" and says that we make up a little more than three percent of the

[mooms]

Over 20 years ago, when I was a volunteer and rape counsellor for Victim Support, our group used to go away for weekends to a convent in Bristol, where the nuns (who were academics and the most worldly nuns I have ever met) taught Jungian psychology. We did extensive Myers-Briggs analysis and I was an ENFJ, although the only one of my preferences, which was distinctive, was Feeling over Thinking. My others were moderate.

I just took the test again here and I am still ENFJ. It seems pretty accurate about me to me. :D

Your Viggo and Sean analyses are interesting.I wonder how Viggo and Sean would come out if they scored themselves? :D

[evocates]

.... That sounds like an absolutely fascinating convent to visit. Nuns who are academics who teach psychology! omg *_* Might be my lack of a Christian background, but I've never thought that nuns are allowed to be practicing academics.

Woah. I just checked your personality description and the very title is already woah-worthy. I might sound completely off-base here, but I'm a major T and really kind of very introverted, and being ENFJ sounds exhausting.

I don't know! It'll be one of the mysteries of the world.

[mooms]

I should say that I am not on the least religious, but the contact with these sisters was via our coordinator, who was. None of we volunteers was religious and all the other people on the courses were very much so, but we used to really enjoy them and I have to say that the place was very peaceful and calming from the moment you stepped inside. Ths is it, for information. It's in Clifton, which is a lovely area of Bristol.

http://www.emmaushouse.org.uk/

[evocates]

/zooms to read. Thanks for the link, lovely!