onemoretime
Dreaming the life
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There are many things in my life that correlate with descriptions of inferior Si. Amongst them:
- Difficulty accepting how I feel on the inside without a desire to change that
- Attempting to change those feelings through substances and pleasurable or stimulating activities
- Taking the above to excess
- Self-defeating habits that arise as a result of that
- Difficulty in accessing the experience of strong emotional feelings without external stimulus
- Desire to take on detail-oriented and consistent tasks, and feeling disappointed when I do not succeed to my satisfaction
- Desire for a level of financial and material independence
- Fear that I will be incapable of that independence, and that I will depend on others for basic life tasks
- A sort of paralysis when overwhelmed by internal states of anxiety
- Difficulty in recalling the experience of past positive emotional states
- Desire to maintain the general stability of myself and my surroundings, and a fear of permanently "breaking" anything
- Sticking with deteriorating relationships longer than is healthy, for fear of losing future possibilities or hopes while having to experience the feelings of loss and grief
- Difficulty maintaining a healthful diet, preferring expedience over what makes me feel good
- Tendency to retreat to fantasy when reality is making me feel uncomfortable
- Tendency to unconsciously and irrationally recall negative memories, and think less of myself as a result
Circumstances in my life have made these particularly pronounced, to the point that it interferes with experiences of Ne preference, while Ti shifts to rationalization. Everything can get focused on one particular source of unease, and stubbornly so. The world starts to be seen in the lens of a stubborn conviction in the things that cannot be done, rather than perceiving what possibilities there are, and honing down from there. Of course, when engaging with others' issues, it's second nature to come up with multiple possibilities.
Feel free to share your experiences of your inferior function.
- Difficulty accepting how I feel on the inside without a desire to change that
- Attempting to change those feelings through substances and pleasurable or stimulating activities
- Taking the above to excess
- Self-defeating habits that arise as a result of that
- Difficulty in accessing the experience of strong emotional feelings without external stimulus
- Desire to take on detail-oriented and consistent tasks, and feeling disappointed when I do not succeed to my satisfaction
- Desire for a level of financial and material independence
- Fear that I will be incapable of that independence, and that I will depend on others for basic life tasks
- A sort of paralysis when overwhelmed by internal states of anxiety
- Difficulty in recalling the experience of past positive emotional states
- Desire to maintain the general stability of myself and my surroundings, and a fear of permanently "breaking" anything
- Sticking with deteriorating relationships longer than is healthy, for fear of losing future possibilities or hopes while having to experience the feelings of loss and grief
- Difficulty maintaining a healthful diet, preferring expedience over what makes me feel good
- Tendency to retreat to fantasy when reality is making me feel uncomfortable
- Tendency to unconsciously and irrationally recall negative memories, and think less of myself as a result
Circumstances in my life have made these particularly pronounced, to the point that it interferes with experiences of Ne preference, while Ti shifts to rationalization. Everything can get focused on one particular source of unease, and stubbornly so. The world starts to be seen in the lens of a stubborn conviction in the things that cannot be done, rather than perceiving what possibilities there are, and honing down from there. Of course, when engaging with others' issues, it's second nature to come up with multiple possibilities.
Feel free to share your experiences of your inferior function.