Apparently a couple of people have found my blog partially using the search term INFP, which is awesome. Hi there, folks. One of the searches also led me to this post: cybette's blog: INFP = ADD = Depression. Very interesting stuff, and I like her hypotheses about different reasons why our personality type may correlate with depression and ADHD, especially this one:
So what causes depression? Stress (among other factors). Feeling the need to "fit in" a world dominated by ESTJ/SJ's, or at least a world where ESTJ type is encouraged (many U.S. presidents are ESTJ's, including George W. Bush). Also, a lot of gifted and creative kids are mis-diagnosed with ADD, simply because they are misunderstood.Count me shocked, shocked!, that GWB would show up as a J. Anyway, it's very interesting stuff.
She also cited short "prayers" for each of the 16 MBTI types. Here are a couple:
Pretty much, yeah.
• INFP: God, help me to finish everything I sta
• ENFP: God, help me to keep my mind on one th -Look a bird- ing at a time.
5 comments:
Hi
I found you by your comment on one of ADHD blogs.
Re INFP, it is more exact definition for us, probably. Did you heard about HSP? Highly Sensitive Person? I read this book and it opened for me the whole new way of looking on myself and others. I checked some HSPs forum (if you want the link, ask me), they run the poll for how many of HSPs are INFPs - the result was like 90 percent.
I am not ADHD, my son is (and my wife, and her father). I am HSP and INFP. You talked on your blog posts about career changes - this triggered my feelings. I changed my careers a lot!!! If you want, we can discuss it.
Arieh
Arieh,
Thanks for the comment. I'd definitely love to talk more about your career changes. We can carry on a conversation via blog comments, or if it's easier, I can find a way to email you.
Hi X
I would like to look on the whole mess of my "career" from an HSP point of view. Actually, the book describes an HSP as a constant searcher for the meaning, for something that triggers her/his soul, so you can easy understand a hint - NO stable career.
HSP's mantra, as I understand it, sounds like this: I live my life looking around curiously and don't know which field will catch my attention in a next year.
I was born in rather technical, engineers family. My mom wanted actor, theater career, but the family forced her to be a doctor.
I dealt with sculpture from age of 6. Also, various handcrafts. But in our home(s) there were only electronics, mechanical parts around me. Also, my mentors at home and school were engineers.
So, I picked electronics direction. I was exhausted in 3 years, completely. Then break in studies, then religion studies.
Then again return to electronics in another college, I got close to PC (personal computers) there. I found computer graphics, then 3D graphics. 3D triggered me (sculpture) and I had relatively stable period of 7 years in the 3D field.
I have artist and tech personality both. 3D was good for me. Then GUI, UI, usability, freelance. 3-4 years. Next break.
Sculpture period, I was off from computers for 1 year. Now, a midlife. More interest in family, kids. I am back to computers, just to run my own web projects, blogs etc. I would like to study psychology BA, but not enough money for this. I am also not sure - I will break this study as any previous study.
Now, I started a blog about some less known ADHD treatment (my son has ADHD). Crawling exercises.
Reading OSHO helped me to start to live in peace with my HSP personality.
Arieh
CrawlingClub.org
Oh, wow... thanks for being here! For the validation!
I'm just discovering blogs. Never knew what they were or how they worked, and didn't have the focus to investigate them thoroughly. :-P
Which is too bad, because I love to write, and two of the only things I can say that is truly successful about my life (aside from two kids that look like they're turning out okay) is that it has been authentic and interesting.
But INFP? Oh yeah. Discovered that about 15+ years ago, but I was younger then, and have my ENFP days now (love love LOVE the prayers, by the way, omigosh!).
Depressed? Not in a few years, thank goddess, but grew up depressed and spent my life that way until I was about 35. So, like J.K. Rowling's dementors, it's always something that's "lurking" there.
HSP (Elaine Aron's 'highly sensitive person')? Oh yah. Just had the pleasure of discovering her book, and how validating it has been!
ADHD? I always thought so... I'm a school psychologist now, and although there are times I can focus pretty well, I look back to my elementary school years, and I strongly believe I was. Classic 'underachiever' by 5th grade and up... prior to that I had made good grades based on mastering the work quickly (my IQ has been estimated in the 140s range), but gave my teachers fits with my talking and getting up out of my seat. Socially awkward all through school (and still? Sometimes I wonder), bullied (had to switch schools because of it), sensitive to criticism, cried easily, needed lots of rest.
Then I discovered music and theater. My love, my passion, and I was practically forbidden to pursue it by my parents (why oh why did I listen? Probably because it has been my journey to manage other people's influence, who knows?). So in my quest to dull the pain, I found psychology appealing, and here I am. It's unfortunate, it's not a great fit. I have very good therapeutic rapport and have had some mind-blowing client successes, but I'm so different from the other psychologists that at times it is uncomfortable and makes me feel I'm in the wrong field.
I've been wanting to gravitate toward personal coaching and motivational speaking (back to the stage at last perhaps?), but the financial needs of a family, and my ADHD lack of focus, and lingering confidence issues... well, that's how it is sometimes. One old therapist I had said that the most important thing was that I never give up. So I'm still swinging.
Anyhow, I love to write, and found you as I was researching how to start my own blog. I'm still fuzzy on what it should be on... I feel too diverse to limit myself, and also there are areas of my life that I'd like to write about but would have to do so anonymously (such as my relationship with my ex and his wife, as we coparent our two children).
Thanks for the opportunity to connect with you, and for the terrific blog entry. If you have any blogging advice, I'm all ears!
Thanks so much for the comment, anonymous. I really do appreciate your encouragement.
I really haven't been updating this the last few weeks, because my job dissatisfaction morphed into a moderate level of satisfaction almost overnight. But I don't want this blog to be just a release for my own job-related Angst, and so I'm pondering how to sustain it in those seasons where things are going well and I'm not motivated to vent, as it were.
In particular, I've thought of inviting guest bloggers. If you'd like to post about your own career journey, I'd love to have you.
Arieh,
I just realized you had a comment on here that I never replied to. So sorry about that!
HSP's mantra, as I understand it, sounds like this: I live my life looking around curiously and don't know which field will catch my attention in a next year.
So true. I'll check out your blog. It looks like fascinating stuff, although I need to read more there to get what the crawling exercises are all about.
Thanks!
Dynamo
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