MISTYPED AS INFP?

[Poki]

Another ex: preschooler being mean to weaker peers
Is this Ti with poor Fe?

My weaker Fe leaves me quiet and anti-social. I may become mean, but that when people won't leave me alone. You push to hear the comment "well if your gonna be that way I will just leave you alone" because that's what I want. I don't mind someone present, but I don't want to have to be all talkative and social. Leave me alone, let me do my own thing and I will come around.

When depressed my weak Fe keeps me from really being social and I just become lonely.

 

[Poki]

Really? I assumed you were joking but I'm very curious how depression manifests in people with inferior Te. Or do you find the thought of being INTP utterly depressing?

I realize my comment might give the wrong impression; I don't think INFPs are depressing or even necessarily depression prone (any more than other types), but depression usually leads me to a state of distanced apathy and nihilism, then very strong and uncomfortable emotional states if not dealt with or alleviated--this overflow of emotion leads me to question a preference for feeling, but it's not my natural "flow" state and it is difficult for me to control, regulate or even understand my feelings in that mode, whereas I imagine an INFP in a depressed state might be at least a little more in tune with their emotions.

Thoughts?

I think us IxxP, excluding INTP have a semi natural defense against depression. Not that we don't become depressed, but we end up going back and forth between ok and depressed. I think since depression causes us to crawl into a cave we aren't really that bad in the cave because of who we are. We are good being quiet and by ourselves and introspective. I think we tend to go back and forth between depression and ok. I have noticed this in myself and other IxxP types. Except INTP for some reason, I don't know what itis, but they get all stuck in the details or something and just spiral down.

None of this is proven or anything...just something I have noticed and wondered.

 

[OrangeAppled]

Really? I assumed you were joking but I'm very curious how depression manifests in people with inferior Te. Or do you find the thought of being INTP utterly depressing?

I realize my comment might give the wrong impression; I don't think INFPs are depressing or even necessarily depression prone (any more than other types), but depression usually leads me to a state of distanced apathy and nihilism, then very strong and uncomfortable emotional states if not dealt with or alleviated--this overflow of emotion leads me to question a preference for feeling, but it's not my natural "flow" state and it is difficult for me to control, regulate or even understand my feelings in that mode, whereas I imagine an INFP in a depressed state might be at least a little more in tune with their emotions.

Thoughts?

In all seriousness, I am more likely to test as and identify with INTP descriptions.

For me, depression has a heavy dose of misanthropic feeling. I lose perspective and tend to have less empathy, compassion, etc. I become more critical, including being agitated by illogic in others.

I am out of touch with rational feelings, but instead ruled by fleeting moods which I try to cling to as rational feelings. This means everything gets rationalized. I have elaborate reasoning to explain why every mood is valid, because I am not seeng it as a mood. Emotional expression is shut down because I am not really feeling emotions, but stuck on prolonging moods and fantasies, which is not in real time nor really all that relevant to how I truly feel. So outwardly, I may look more stereotypically T, with the only apparant emotion being irritation and frustration as a critical response.