Haphazard
Don't Judge Me!
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2008
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- MBTI Type
- ENFJ
One time I was driving in the rain, and my car went sliding off the road. I swerved back on the road in a continuous motion, and I noticed I didn't hit anything. I concluded everything was fine. I was by the time I got to the next stop sign. Some girls I know would've been spazzing out, and buy the time we got to our destination would probably still be affected by it. They might possibly make reference to it. I would represent low neuroticism and the girl would represent high neuroticism.
Right now you should be in a normal state. Elements of neuroticism involve how easy it is for your fight-or-flight response to start, and possibly how intensely it's activated. It also involves how long it takes for you to get back to a normal state like you should be in right now.
So if one's fight/flight response is intensely activated by anticipated stimuli but barely by actual stimuli, what do you have there? Low neuroticism with other anxiety issues, or high neuroticism that curiously fails at what it's supposed to do?
Or is fight/flight limited to only sudden responses, and that long, drawn out, painful panic of anticipation truly has nothing to do with it?