Lately, I've been feeling very lost.
I feel lonely, but I can't connect with people. I've been unemployed for two months, but I can't seem to motivate myself to put in more of an effort to find a job. I'm 22 and entering my last year of school, and I feel lost.
I feel like something inside me is missing, and nothing is right.
I'm frustrated most of the time that I have this personality. I know it will sound awful, but I've started to resent being an INFP like it's a disease. I think, if only I were more Extroverted, I would feel more comfortable being social. I wouldn't be so sensitive. I could have casual friends to hang out with, rather than requiring everyone to be "good" friends. People would want to contact me, and I wouldn't have to be the initiator.
I struggled a lot in the spring with similar issues of connection and such, partially due to my friend's death. Although I hadn't spoken to her in over a year, she was the person I would turn to when I didn't understand a social situation or needed help or needed an honest assessment of my strengths and weaknesses. Lately, I can't find any positive attributes about myself. I assume anyone who is interested in me must have something wrong with them. I think I'm so used to doing things alone that I don't know how to be around people.
I feel like there's this block within myself, like a dam in the way, that is holding me back. Either that or a missing piece of myself.
Has anyone else felt like this? What do you do when you feel like this? How do you find yourself and make room for others in your life?
I feel lonely, but I can't connect with people. I've been unemployed for two months, but I can't seem to motivate myself to put in more of an effort to find a job. I'm 22 and entering my last year of school, and I feel lost.
I feel like something inside me is missing, and nothing is right.
I'm frustrated most of the time that I have this personality. I know it will sound awful, but I've started to resent being an INFP like it's a disease. I think, if only I were more Extroverted, I would feel more comfortable being social. I wouldn't be so sensitive. I could have casual friends to hang out with, rather than requiring everyone to be "good" friends. People would want to contact me, and I wouldn't have to be the initiator.
I struggled a lot in the spring with similar issues of connection and such, partially due to my friend's death. Although I hadn't spoken to her in over a year, she was the person I would turn to when I didn't understand a social situation or needed help or needed an honest assessment of my strengths and weaknesses. Lately, I can't find any positive attributes about myself. I assume anyone who is interested in me must have something wrong with them. I think I'm so used to doing things alone that I don't know how to be around people.
I feel like there's this block within myself, like a dam in the way, that is holding me back. Either that or a missing piece of myself.
Has anyone else felt like this? What do you do when you feel like this? How do you find yourself and make room for others in your life?