For quite awhile now I've assumed I was a type 1w9 for my gut type, but now I'm not so sure. I'm a 4w3 and integrate to 1 when I'm healthy. I tend to have very strict morals and ethics for myself, care about the ethical behavior of others, I'm a perfectionist a lot of the time, etc ( Read more... )

I'm glad LiveJournal seems to be working again. I have had bad focus lately... I did manage to finish a painting, do some poetry writing, and read some of Borges. I've also still had dumb television shows playing in the background. I just like at least playing a dvd in the background so I don't feel so alone (Michael is often in his room and ( Read more... )

How do you picture your "subconscious city" to be like? How do you get there?I don't really picture a city so much as a landscape mostly populated by animals. There are hills and fields of flowers of all colors, cherry blossom trees lining a path, a castle on top of a hill, forests filled with willow trees and giant trees. I get through there by ( Read more... )

Great article on INFJ's: http://www.darbright.com/the-life-purpose-of-infjs/

( Personal Myth )

This is my response from personality cafe:
( Questions on What Values Are )

This describes my habit of overinvolvement with people well ( Read more... )

I've been reading Personality Cafe forums a lot the past few days. For the Myers-Briggs my personality type is INFJ and I decided to write down how I think I use my main functions (the shadow functions are rarely used or tend to be used in negative ways). Even though the fourth function is usually weak, it is usually not actually a part of the ( Read more... )

5-HTP worked many nights for me to decrease anxiety and depression, though it never helped my insomnia (but very few things help my insomnia). However, eventually it started giving me stomachaches. I ordered a large container of L-Tryptophan to start taking after I ran out of 5-HTP. I'm taking the larger recommended dose (which, comparatively, ( Read more... )

There is something I have learned in Dialectical Behavior Therapy that is probably obvious to most other people, but it was a big revelation for me: We are not our emotions. We experience emotions, but we don't have to act on them -- we can even act opposite of them. We are not defined by our emotions and we are more than our emotions. I have ( Read more... )