Okay, so for some background, I've been researching MBTI for several months and I was severely mistyped as ESFP for an overwhelming majority of that time. I would wake up, and what's the first thing that comes to mind? MBTI. I would then proceed to think about it every waking moment of every single day. In the shower. While I'm eating. While I'm doing work. And if I couldn't distract myself enough, while I'm *socializing.* "Oh I wonder if I introduce them to MBTI, would they know what it is?" "I wonder what type I come off as" etc. It was only while I was talking my ass off those thoughts would go away. It was getting RIDICULOUS. My point is, when I'm obsessed with something, I'm O B S E S S E D to no end. And I can't let it go. No one can force me to let it go. Not even myself. In order to step back from MBTI, something would have to take its place, and it either has to match or go above the levels of intense fixation I had with it. And this has been happening since I was a child. There would be one SPECIFIC thing I would get attached to and it would last for a loooong time. Dear gosh, you wouldn't want to see me during my astrology phase. Ickkkkkkk cringe warning. It was almost as bad as this haha.
But now upon finding (what I think is) my true type, I've been rereading the cognitive functions again, (trying not to skim-read for buzz words that I relate to this time), and I've noticed that this kind of fixation on one singular thing seems more attributed with Ni, rather than Ne. Ne is more like 23762369538743972323 interests and not really going in-depth with anything. I don't really relate to that, I get stuck on one thing and then try to find out everything I can about it. What I really want to know here, is because of my obsession with one thing at a time instead of a million possibilities, is that a sign of me actually having Ni instead?
I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. Is it actually a completely different function? Could I actually still have Ni in my top 4 functions and I've been wasting my time thinking I was ENFP? Am I just overthinking again? Please let me know what you think, this is pretty confusing and conflicting stuff lol
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