A close friend of mine (probably on the border between INFP and INTP, we're very alike) and I were talking a few nights ago, and she pointed out the reason I have been so distressed lately: She said we both had a deep need to know ourselves, and to be in touch with ourselves and our beliefs at almost all times. She said we both had a deep need for introspection, which guided us through our waking lives. I thought of this as a need to be up to date with yourself, to make sure your "core self" had not changed; To proceed into the external world with the knowledge of what "you" would do, believe, think, set in your head, instead of wandering aimlessly, searching the external world for answers to questions so paramount and essential.
Lately I have been struggling with this, because of the massive amount of data that I've collected over the year has been left "unsorted" if you will, with my depression hindering the process and introducing some frightening new experiences to analyze, and all the life changes taking place right now, pushing me forward, stumbling, into a new world where I am unsure of what "I" should think or do. How I should proceed; How I should perceive.
My question is, do you INFPs find themselves doing this a lot? Is it an INFP trait, an INFx trait, or simply an Ixxx trait? Do you have any advice? I've never experienced something so strange, frightening, and yet so specific and clear in how my mind operates.
Lately I have been struggling with this, because of the massive amount of data that I've collected over the year has been left "unsorted" if you will, with my depression hindering the process and introducing some frightening new experiences to analyze, and all the life changes taking place right now, pushing me forward, stumbling, into a new world where I am unsure of what "I" should think or do. How I should proceed; How I should perceive.
My question is, do you INFPs find themselves doing this a lot? Is it an INFP trait, an INFx trait, or simply an Ixxx trait? Do you have any advice? I've never experienced something so strange, frightening, and yet so specific and clear in how my mind operates.