Hello,
I have a story behind the confusion of my type. Your help is appreciated. Thank you.
When I first took the test I didn't know about the functions, so originally I tested INFX. I thought maybe I was INFP because I didn't test strong J and felt like I was 'late to my appointments'
When I learned about the functions though I felt like I was probably dominant Ni, Fe. It made sense to me more than INFP. I do feel strong Ne though, when I'm with others. We'll laugh about things we imagine.
I don't encounter people too often who I get to use Ne with. Some of my really good friends though who I think are ENXP types I can relate with Ne. I'm an extremely laid back person though. I thought maybe it's Type 9.
What confuses me the most is that when I was younger, in elementary school up to high school, I was completely different. I don't think I was very Ni until high school. And really, I think I had characteristics of ENFP, INFP, ISFP and I was very physically active before that, with possible Se. I made jokes in class. I was somewhat popular and influencial. People liked to copy me. I was extremely random and kind of outgoing which makes me think I could have been ENFP. I was also very coordinated and was able to learn things quickly. I'm also very creative especially with music.
Half way through high school I started to think more holistically and had big ideas and realizations about patterns and systems, and developed interests in studies like demographics, statistics, and anthropology and used Ni more for the first time. However on the outside with friends I was funny and random.
In my junior year of high school I had been stressed out from lack of sleep and I guess thinking too much, and I had a whole bunch of energy then crashed into a deep depression and was diagnosed with Bipolar 2. I went to doctors for therapy and medication but they weren't helping very much so I decided to figure life out on my own. But since I felt such strong emotions for the first time, it made me feel empathetic for everyone and realize that people have their own struggles. Around this time I started to become Fe.
During the next 3 years I thought about life and the way things work and I truly began to develop Ni and Ti through introspection and journaling, disciplining myself. After one year I had developed my own personal ideas about how human behavior and emotions work. That was the way I came out of my depression, by making so many connections in my mind and thinking analytically, sometimes writing my ideas and breaking them down. During this time though I was in college majoring in Anthropology, and that also stimulated the use of Ni.
Some time during college I reunited with some friends from high school and they were sort of surprised by how philosophical and intellectual I was expressing myself through the use of Ni. I was no longer making jokes about stuff or being so random. I was thinking before speaking and trying to phrase things correctly.
This whole time I had still struggled through college with despression and anxiety and wasn't taking medicine. I learned to kind of detach myself emotionally from my own identity in a way that I think lessened the Fi.
In the beginning of my senior year in college I went into a hypomanic episode and my mind was just out of control so I finally acknowledged that the problem I have is beyond my control, even though I tried so hard without medicine or therapy. I decided the mature thing to do was to see a doctor again and take medicine. I got a lot better and my mood stabilized
I feel both Ni and Ne now. I'm very Ni when I'm alone analyzing things, or with someone I can have an intellectual conversation with. I can break anything down into each component it's made of, and put them all together into a whole. But since I'm happier these days, I'm a little more of my previous self, though I've developed a lot of Fe.
I changed in so many ways from when I was younger and people noticed it. I attribute it to becoming more mature but also the change in my thought process when overcoming my depression, and feeling a lot more empathetic and focused on the emotions of others around me. I feel very Ni, Fe, Ti, Se. But whenever I'm with old friends these days I can snap right into Ne and we'll start laughing at all kinds of things around us and make scenarios etc. I have Ni conversations with some of them though.
It just makes me think about who I've become, and that there are different sides of my personality. There have always been. In the past I've been called extremely quiet, and at other times very outgoing. Then When I got older into college I was called intellectual and many people told me they have never met anyone like me. I care a lot about having friends and not always being alone, although I spend most of my time alone.
The most consistent type I feel is the one I attribute to INFJ. When I look in the forums of the other types, the only one that interests me is the INFJ one. To me the topics and threads are relevant with relevant posts that I can relate to and appreciate thinking about. I've looked in other forums for the other personality types and they just don't interest me very much. They don't seem as constructive or revolve around ideas that I find important.
Thanks for reading.
Can I get some interpretations? What does this case sound like to you?
I have a story behind the confusion of my type. Your help is appreciated. Thank you.
When I first took the test I didn't know about the functions, so originally I tested INFX. I thought maybe I was INFP because I didn't test strong J and felt like I was 'late to my appointments'
When I learned about the functions though I felt like I was probably dominant Ni, Fe. It made sense to me more than INFP. I do feel strong Ne though, when I'm with others. We'll laugh about things we imagine.
I don't encounter people too often who I get to use Ne with. Some of my really good friends though who I think are ENXP types I can relate with Ne. I'm an extremely laid back person though. I thought maybe it's Type 9.
What confuses me the most is that when I was younger, in elementary school up to high school, I was completely different. I don't think I was very Ni until high school. And really, I think I had characteristics of ENFP, INFP, ISFP and I was very physically active before that, with possible Se. I made jokes in class. I was somewhat popular and influencial. People liked to copy me. I was extremely random and kind of outgoing which makes me think I could have been ENFP. I was also very coordinated and was able to learn things quickly. I'm also very creative especially with music.
Half way through high school I started to think more holistically and had big ideas and realizations about patterns and systems, and developed interests in studies like demographics, statistics, and anthropology and used Ni more for the first time. However on the outside with friends I was funny and random.
In my junior year of high school I had been stressed out from lack of sleep and I guess thinking too much, and I had a whole bunch of energy then crashed into a deep depression and was diagnosed with Bipolar 2. I went to doctors for therapy and medication but they weren't helping very much so I decided to figure life out on my own. But since I felt such strong emotions for the first time, it made me feel empathetic for everyone and realize that people have their own struggles. Around this time I started to become Fe.
During the next 3 years I thought about life and the way things work and I truly began to develop Ni and Ti through introspection and journaling, disciplining myself. After one year I had developed my own personal ideas about how human behavior and emotions work. That was the way I came out of my depression, by making so many connections in my mind and thinking analytically, sometimes writing my ideas and breaking them down. During this time though I was in college majoring in Anthropology, and that also stimulated the use of Ni.
Some time during college I reunited with some friends from high school and they were sort of surprised by how philosophical and intellectual I was expressing myself through the use of Ni. I was no longer making jokes about stuff or being so random. I was thinking before speaking and trying to phrase things correctly.
This whole time I had still struggled through college with despression and anxiety and wasn't taking medicine. I learned to kind of detach myself emotionally from my own identity in a way that I think lessened the Fi.
In the beginning of my senior year in college I went into a hypomanic episode and my mind was just out of control so I finally acknowledged that the problem I have is beyond my control, even though I tried so hard without medicine or therapy. I decided the mature thing to do was to see a doctor again and take medicine. I got a lot better and my mood stabilized
I feel both Ni and Ne now. I'm very Ni when I'm alone analyzing things, or with someone I can have an intellectual conversation with. I can break anything down into each component it's made of, and put them all together into a whole. But since I'm happier these days, I'm a little more of my previous self, though I've developed a lot of Fe.
I changed in so many ways from when I was younger and people noticed it. I attribute it to becoming more mature but also the change in my thought process when overcoming my depression, and feeling a lot more empathetic and focused on the emotions of others around me. I feel very Ni, Fe, Ti, Se. But whenever I'm with old friends these days I can snap right into Ne and we'll start laughing at all kinds of things around us and make scenarios etc. I have Ni conversations with some of them though.
It just makes me think about who I've become, and that there are different sides of my personality. There have always been. In the past I've been called extremely quiet, and at other times very outgoing. Then When I got older into college I was called intellectual and many people told me they have never met anyone like me. I care a lot about having friends and not always being alone, although I spend most of my time alone.
The most consistent type I feel is the one I attribute to INFJ. When I look in the forums of the other types, the only one that interests me is the INFJ one. To me the topics and threads are relevant with relevant posts that I can relate to and appreciate thinking about. I've looked in other forums for the other personality types and they just don't interest me very much. They don't seem as constructive or revolve around ideas that I find important.
Thanks for reading.
Can I get some interpretations? What does this case sound like to you?
