(Infj) Understanding why I hate something, or figuring out why something is hard, is helpful with my mental health journey. Going beyond my inferior function. Knowing how to harness my shadow functions. Sometimes, my environment can hinder where I want to go mentally.
As a medical doctor and a mental health practitioner (psychological counsellor) who has been into MBTI/cognitive functions since 2017 and a regular listener of personality hacker podcasts this episode has been one of the most important ones for me. Almost all the episodes that i have listened to have been insightful (wasn't in a mindset to listen to the political/apolitical one given the current state of the world) but this one is particular is very much in alignment with the decolonial, indigenous, depathologising distress and dysthymic mind/body issues and rejecting overgeneralisation of labeling everything as an "illness" and "disorder" perspective. Do agree with looking at nature vs nurture and temperaments/base states of an individual before jumping into labelling and diagnosing them by comparison to the normative standards. Thank you for this episode and all that you folks have been doing - a harmonising intj; afab, audhd.
Time Blindness is a symptom associated with ADHD and sometimes Autism. It is a non medical term that refers to a persistent difficulty in managing time and perceiving the passage of time. It’s a natural consequence of hyperfocus, or becoming so engrossed in an activity that you block out everything else around you. In sum, time blindness is one of the potential consequences of executive dysfunction a person may experience.
I love MBTI but know that it’s pseudo-science. (Hoping it closes more in towards science in the years to come.) As INFP-N, AuDHD and C-PTSD, I think including both personality theory and mental health disorders is beneficial. Yes, ask around the physiological needs first, but I don’t want to end with that as the gospel message to save everyone. Nature and nurture both as greatly influential, with something like autism being highly on the genetic side. Thanks for another great and insightful video!
Thanks for the comment! I hesitate to say that Myers-Briggs is "pseudo" or fake science. I prefer to say that we don't have instruments to measure it's scientific validity at this time. If you're interested, here's a podcast we recorded on the topic of whether or not type is scientific: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RZ0koWstSpo.html -Antonia
Textbook ENFP: I clicked on here thinking it would be a topic about why personality types can fall into mental health disorders, or I'm assuming a perpetual cycle of our shadow sides, and how these can be balanced.
38:49 spot on. Since discovering MBTI, I've had to overcome the disappointment of many people wrapping it in mysticism or even kinks. Relationships and situations are dynamics and those vary widely from person to person. It's detrimental to understand other people are *not like us*, which is a huge sticking point for a lot of people I know that just approach life like an alien experiment, and allow for that. The point made at the beginning of approaching psychology on a positive note is a big reason I have found myself delving into MBTI. I remember as a child being more myself than ever in my life because I was the youngest in a very dysfunctional family and while they were all obsessed with each other, I went out and explored the woods, poked dead fish with sticks, used my allowance money to buy a group of bullies who were going to physically assault me candy from a corner store, and getting lost in art for hours at a time. It was when my older syblings ran away from the home and the parental attention focused on me and told me all the ways I was wrong and how I *should* be acting and percieving that I went out of balance and it's been a struggle for me to find that balance I knew as a kid, especially when reading on the subject, instead of being told, "Well this will probably work better for you," it was, "Here's whats wrong with you and the people, situations, and or dysfunctions that are the likeliest culprits. I'm more about road maps and personal emergency plans that recognizes warning signs and corrects than dancing around the negatives. Rant over, thanks for the video.
