that was more a description of pathological tendencies than a healthy/unhealthy description, a "landscape" if you will. Naranjo's work is designed to show people their type by reveals the darkest corners of each of the 9 types, and whichever makes you uncomfortable (even defensive in many instances) is likely your type.
I've seen other descriptions of unhealthy reaches of 8s and the posted just seems.. far, far too out there. There was a thread (that I believe you started actually) where I went into some details about unhealthy aspects of the typical 8 that emerge in daily life that make the healthy 8 not as heroic, selfless, and amazing as the healthy descriptions posted in that thread were making it. There's a balance to it.. The typical 'unhealthy' person still functions in society, but has mild aspects of this sort of behavior.. The description itself is just too extreme for me to take seriously. It sort of feels like someone saying, "If you haven't tried to kill someone in rage you're not really an 8!!" which just sounds ridiculous.
the main reason I don't think you're an 8 is that you seem far too in touch with your emotions and display no difficulty in areas pertaining to relationships, as well as having clear superego influence and being highly service oriented.
I am very in touch with my emotions.. Partially because my religion pushes me to do this... Partially because I am a feeler.. but most of it has to do with my upbringing. I grew up around 3 women that are very emotional, volatile, and easily upset and hurt if you say and do the wrong thing. Learning how to interact with them was essential for me. I had my father to fall back on since he, like me, requires very little emotionally from people, but it is still important to be in touch with one's emotions.
Also, growing up means knowing and understanding them. You cannot control something you don't understand. It was essential for me to know *why* I was getting angry.. the sources of anger, or sadness, or happiness, because I did not like people influencing those things. I wanted to decide when to feel those things, instead of letting others make those decisions for me. It's why I keep a level head and don't go off the deep end in rage when something happens at my job. Not to say people never make me angry, but I grabbed a decent grip on it at an early age.
I do have many difficulties with relationships.. I just tend not to post them here. My service orientation came from early training as a soldier. I was a very different girl before then.
neither do I see the sith-like tendencies of viewing people as a means to an end, lust for power at the expense of others ("casualties") or getting a rush from intense conflict. overall, your thoughts just seem too...people oriented. 8's natural landscape is Darwinian, emotionally dead (when you view the world as a dog-eat-dog jungle, it tends to make you lose your sense of awe and other "childish ideas") and desensitized.
Obviously I wouldn't be a very healthy person if I saw people as a means to an end. I recognize the times where people, and relationships, benefit me to have and continue or benefit me more to tolerate even if I wish to end them then.
And well.. I am child like in nature. Always have been, and always will be. I cannot function in life as an emotionally dead person. I am apathetic to things people find odd--like going to war or putting my life in danger--but overall being an apathetic person brings with it no joy. It is hard to be truly happy and apathetic as well. There is more of a calm in apathy that I just cannot tolerate. I want too much out of life, and I have too many ambitions, to deal with simple calm and quiet.
most descriptions of 8 tend to focus too much on the external traits, ie, confidence, independence, freedom etc (traits that could easily apply to, say, a healthy 7 or 6) and don't really get to the core of the distortion that is type 8 (the enneagram is a lens that clouds one's view of reality and a complex system of ego defenses and neurosis)
overall, I have trouble seeing you as an average range 8 (certainly not an unhealthy 8). if you are an 8, you would have to be integrated to the point where your fixation was not externally noticeable at all.
The enneagram highlights the motives and motivations in life.. Which colors one's view of reality. I agree that it tends to focus on more superficial notions of that, since confidence is easier to for people to recognize than deeper traits within themselves.
But it isn't a matter of 'if'..I know what I am. The description is one I cannot take seriously.. It might as well be telling me, "Oh, and you'll kill your mother and have sex with your father..
I swear I didn't steal that from a play either.."
I don't really highlight my downfalls anywhere, certainly not here. Those are personal, and mine.. I sometimes feel it suitable to write darker aspects of myself, but I don't really try to draw attention to them. They're private things.
I suppose I'll find something to answer in video form and post it then. [MENTION=4945]EJCC[/MENTION]: Brilliant! 
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