I don’t think there was any confirmation, though I assumed our correction going without a correction from him meant we got it right.
This is interesting to me as those ranges vary so much from mine.
Conflict-Averse – Mediators generally prefer to avoid conflict. They can put a great deal of time and energy into trying to please everyone. This desire to please others can drown out their own inner wisdom and make them painfully sensitive to even constructive criticism
This is true except I willfully wade into the fire of conflict as it’s a necessary evil. It does a wonder on me afterwards and/or I’ll get a bit hyped up/manic when engaged in the confrontation (if it’s one I really wanted to avoid bc I’m aware of likely outcomes).
Mediators can also have a tendency to mentally fixate on problems in their relationships rather than discuss them openly. Because they don’t want to trigger a conflict, they may find it difficult to talk about what’s wrong and why. This can cause significant issues in their relationships. After all, their partners can’t read their minds.
People with this personality type may need to remind themselves that open, honest communication is necessary in a relationship, even if it isn’t always easy.
I discuss everything, every elephant in the room I’ll bring up. Every potential issue I address via long conversation.
This just isn’t me in that I naturally see things from the additional level of what’s in their head and, as a result, communicate clearly and clarify as I go. I’m very, very long-winded covering all angles tho.
I’d say I can find happiness and contentment in any situation. Instead of getting suicidal or thoughts of self-harm, when I’ve been at my actual lowest I tell myself I can just get thrown in prison and read books for the rest of my days. Worst case scenario is never that bad when I’ve got that as a fallback.
All I really want is friendship and love, that’s the only fulfilment there is. Being happy and giving and sharing love. We’re all just animals waiting to die otherwise, people get caught up in the rat race and their life passes them by.
There’s aspects of both that are true (shocking) but overall I would agree with me being more the former.
47/53 A/T speaks to me being down the middle there.
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It’s me.
And you!
Nice to meet another person who identified with the traits and descriptions.
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This is very strange. The logician description fits me more perfectly than any of the other myers briggs descriptions I’ve read over the years. Like line by line, that’s me.
I guess ISTP and INTP are pretty close and I was fairly close to the middle on that one category, so it makes sense.
Feels like we’re discovering what character preset someone decided to play us as in the sim.
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I’ve consistently scored as an INTJ every time I take this type of test…until now. I think it’s skewing another direction partly because we’re in pandemic mode. So, questions concerning being around groups of people at social events, which used to be an automatic “hell no. I’ve been dealing with humans all day at work. The fuck would I want to be around those clowns.” Has transitioned to “Big party with lots of people I don’t know? Sounds intriguing, maybe even enjoyable.”
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Still doesn’t sound enjoyable to me. I fucking hate people IRL.
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The pandemic has def taught me I’m much more extroverted than I previously thought.
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I’m a meat eater too
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I don’t really take Myer-Briggs seriously, it’s more like an exercise in thinking about yourself, but I’m INTP and I liked this description of the type although it feels more like a caricature of me than an accurate profile. Like INTP is the direction I’m in, just like you can be physically north of something, but there’s still the question of whether you’re 100 miles north or 1,000 miles north.
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[x] health insurance set up
[x] refilled “turns me into my best me” medications
[x] searching for new therapist
[x] searching for new PCP
All the stuff that takes a couple of hours of prep work and then it’s done. But getting to a place where those two hours are on the table… Sometimes there are more obstacles to easy decisions than I anticipated.
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Had a full-on panic attack at the end of one of my classes.
Basically found out that semester grades had to be turned in today when I thought they had to be in next week. Was told by a student no less. The panic set in and I got to work on catching up on grades and spent the 10 minutes in between classes to finishing them.
I tried to teach through the attack but I had to leave my next class about 15 minutes in. I apologized to my students and logged off to complete my grading (which I did in time). Thankfully they were understanding of my panic attack.
Nice to have such good students.
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Better now that the problem is solved
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That sucks. I used to drive a ferry, and would sometimes get panic attacks mid-shift. I had to learn how to ignore them, because I couldn’t just stop driving the boat. But, I also didn’t have to teach a class of people listening to my every word. Sounds rough, sorry
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I had a stretch where I got quite a few panic attacks from around 2014-2017 - a lot of them after a night of heavy drinking, unfortunately. It really is amazing how mentally debilitating and physical they can be.
Towards the latter part of my experiences with them, I randomly came across a silly solution to run in place if I could. It seemed a bit counterintuitive considering you feel like your heart is about to explode but it was something I needed to do to get my mind from feeling like it was all of a sudden strapped to a rollercoaster with out my control. It helped give me a temporary feeling of control over my attitude and body until I could come to grips with it.
I understand that something like that may not be possible depending on where you are and what you’re doing but It was something that I found personally helpful for me.
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It’s called a grounding technique and there are a lot of them. I haven’t tried that one, I will next time. Others can share theirs but deep held breaths help me the most. Doing mental arithmetic can help too, if I’m having more of a mental panic. Usually mine are just physical reactions.
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I hold on to a bag of ice for dear life. No matter how much it hurts, it won’t HURT me. Helped me escape self-harming behaviors.
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I can only be thankful that it wasn’t an in-person class and that the cause of the anxiety was solvable by me. Otherwise, I’d be totally fucked.
Anxiety attacks that physically intense are actually quite rare for me. I still have intense anxiety but most of the physical symptoms are mild enough that I can hide them from others. Unless you know me, you wouldn’t be aware of one happening.