BerberElla
12 and a half weeks
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2008
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I still honestly can't make up my mind whether I really am an extrovert because of this, but I do get physically exhausted if I socialise too much.
For example last week my friend came to my house for my birthday on tuesday, and didn't leave until the following monday (this monday), with her 4 kids, so that's now me, my 3 kids, her, her 4 kids and my brother all in my house for that many days.
I was desperate for time alone, by the time she left on monday I didn't even want to answer the phone to anyone. I have been physically exhausted and withdrawn since then, and if it wasn't for the fact that I know she is very lonely, I wouldn't be heading back to hers from this friday for another 9 days because she tells me she is really low and doesn't want to be alone.
This is taxing me so badly, I really need some down time, I have been unable to function properly since she left. I feel brain dead, I feel like I need to recharge, something that introverts need to do right?
If you asked me how I would cope on a deserted island, part of me is crazy drawn to that hermit lifestyle and I know I would be fine with it (as long as I had internet connection haha).
Even if we removed all the kids from the equation, at a weeks company I would feel maxed out and would need to be alone or else I get snappy, rude, abrupt, basically everything I usually am not.
Again something I read happens to introverts.
So do other ENxP types suffer from this need to shut the world out after too much socialising?
For example last week my friend came to my house for my birthday on tuesday, and didn't leave until the following monday (this monday), with her 4 kids, so that's now me, my 3 kids, her, her 4 kids and my brother all in my house for that many days.
I was desperate for time alone, by the time she left on monday I didn't even want to answer the phone to anyone. I have been physically exhausted and withdrawn since then, and if it wasn't for the fact that I know she is very lonely, I wouldn't be heading back to hers from this friday for another 9 days because she tells me she is really low and doesn't want to be alone.
This is taxing me so badly, I really need some down time, I have been unable to function properly since she left. I feel brain dead, I feel like I need to recharge, something that introverts need to do right?
If you asked me how I would cope on a deserted island, part of me is crazy drawn to that hermit lifestyle and I know I would be fine with it (as long as I had internet connection haha).
Even if we removed all the kids from the equation, at a weeks company I would feel maxed out and would need to be alone or else I get snappy, rude, abrupt, basically everything I usually am not.
Again something I read happens to introverts.
So do other ENxP types suffer from this need to shut the world out after too much socialising?