Ne and information overload??

[Dreamer]

Perhaps I'm just loosely associating this to Ne, and most likely it doesn't relate to any function at all and it relates to my fantastic ADHD-ness. But anyways, when I take in information, it literally feels like a vacuum of information coming in with absolutely no bias for this or that, no filter. This isn't just relegated to learning, but applies to any time I try and understand something, or someone. Everything is given equal weight in importance and all things are considered. I can see the word "possibilities" looming above me just taunting me right now, but no, I banish thee! Be gone!

Anyways, this doesn't happen too often, really, probably only when I'm also under stress and are more susceptible to the added emotional stress, but I can get to a point where my mind just does not function anymore and I start to freak out and it feels like my world is falling apart. This is usually the time when I knock on my INTJ brother's door and ask him to sort my life together again, give some rationale to my thoughts, some much needed hierarchy. These little episodes only last for like a few hours where I get a panic attack.

Wait...maybe this is just a panic attack and not related to functions.

Well anywho I'll leave this post up anyways, even if perhaps I just answered my own question. Anyone relate to information overload? I mean, perhaps this mental freeze IS just a panic attack, but what leads up to that point?

 

[mono]

Underdeveloped auxilliary function, Fi in your case. It is exactly as you put it, mental overload, burst of different perspectives and possible outcomes, and not so possible ones lol, and of course the need to sort them out, figure out what is and what isn't, what will benefit you and what won't. I need to sort that shit by objective criticism and maping (Ti), you need to do that by filtering all that data through the map of your personal values. It does cause me anxiety when for whatever reason I fail to do that. I might already be stressed by life, and I feel I can't judge and sort out properly, which feels like I have no personality in times like those. Or that I need EVEN more input.

 

[IndigoViolet11]

Perhaps I'm just loosely associating this to Ne, and most likely it doesn't relate to any function at all and it relates to my fantastic ADHD-ness. But anyways, when I take in information, it literally feels like a vacuum of information coming in with absolutely no bias for this or that, no filter. This isn't just relegated to learning, but applies to any time I try and understand something, or someone. Everything is given equal weight in importance and all things are considered. I can see the word "possibilities" looming above me just taunting me right now, but no, I banish thee! Be gone!

Anyways, this doesn't happen too often, really, probably only when I'm also under stress and are more susceptible to the added emotional stress, but I can get to a point where my mind just does not function anymore and I start to freak out and it feels like my world is falling apart. This is usually the time when I knock on my INTJ brother's door and ask him to sort my life together again, give some rationale to my thoughts, some much needed hierarchy. These little episodes only last for like a few hours where I get a panic attack.

Wait...maybe this is just a panic attack and not related to functions.

Well anywho I'll leave this post up anyways, even if perhaps I just answered my own question. Anyone relate to information overload? I mean, perhaps this mental freeze IS just a panic attack, but what leads up to that point?

Hm, I will try to explain as good as I can. Say, you take in information. Then after you did, you have to process them in order to put them in your memory.

Therefore, in cognitive function, only looking at dominant and auxiliary, there is a good reason why if the dominant is an extroverted function like Ne, then the auxiliary must be an introvert, and vice versa -- You either take in outside stimil (extrovertion dominant) and process it later (introvertion auxiliary), or you have something in your mind that you automatically define in your head (introvertion dominant) but missing some crutial information to make sense of the world, and as a result, collect the pieces from real life (extrovertion auxiliary), to make sense of the world outside, and build the puzzle in the head, of how the world looks like.

In your case, it is possible that your dominant is acting like a sponge, collecting all those data but not knowing how to process them in your head, which became... yukky. Take [MENTION=26661]mono[/MENTION] 's post as example, that there is a possibility that one's auxiliary is very underdeveloped. Or say, that your dominant became way too strong (ie you see more than others) for your auxiliary to process it. The first one is easier to fix, but the second one would be harder. In additional to that, putting the cognitive function aside a little, you cannot not have thoughts nor feel. Information comes with thoughts and feeling that does not make sense doesn't mean you don't have emotions, except without the right or sufficient processing, emotions just remain.. unknown, hidden, and never see its daylight. Normally we tie some of our thoughts or feelings automatically, but that is not alwaya the case.

 

[INTP1W2]

Underdeveloped auxilliary function, Fi in your case. It is exactly as you put it, mental overload, burst of different perspectives and possible outcomes, and not so possible ones lol, and of course the need to sort them out, figure out what is and what isn't, what will benefit you and what won't. I need to sort that shit by objective criticism and maping (Ti), you need to do that by filtering all that data through the map of your personal values. It does cause me anxiety when for whatever reason I fail to do that. I might already be stressed by life, and I feel I can't judge and sort out properly, which feels like I have no personality in times like those. Or that I need EVEN more input.

Perfect explanation, Mono! I'm NeTi (ENTp). I get overloaded at times too with the processing of stuff. Never with one "thread", as I call the many lines of processing that we work at any given time but it's when I'm processing multiple, heavy threads. My emotional responses to what I'm processing, if any, can add to the weight of the thread(s). Sometimes it's so much and I forget to come out of my world that when I do, I'm like mentally exhausted and need a nap or to go to sleep, in which case I sleep for hours. I'm known to have 5-hr "naps".

I'm still learning how these cognitive functions and stuff work so great explanations like Mono's are really helpful to me.

 

[Luminous]

Perhaps I'm just loosely associating this to Ne, and most likely it doesn't relate to any function at all and it relates to my fantastic ADHD-ness. But anyways, when I take in information, it literally feels like a vacuum of information coming in with absolutely no bias for this or that, no filter. This isn't just relegated to learning, but applies to any time I try and understand something, or someone. Everything is given equal weight in importance and all things are considered. I can see the word "possibilities" looming above me just taunting me right now, but no, I banish thee! Be gone!

Anyways, this doesn't happen too often, really, probably only when I'm also under stress and are more susceptible to the added emotional stress, but I can get to a point where my mind just does not function anymore and I start to freak out and it feels like my world is falling apart. This is usually the time when I knock on my INTJ brother's door and ask him to sort my life together again, give some rationale to my thoughts, some much needed hierarchy. These little episodes only last for like a few hours where I get a panic attack.

Wait...maybe this is just a panic attack and not related to functions.

Well anywho I'll leave this post up anyways, even if perhaps I just answered my own question. Anyone relate to information overload? I mean, perhaps this mental freeze IS just a panic attack, but what leads up to that point?

I experience this too sometimes, Dreamer.

I had been blaming it on anxiety/panic attacks. I do think our tendency as NPFs to take in a lot of information can be overwhelming, though I don't think that's all there is to the panic attacks.