acting like nothing close to your type

[RedN]

Do you have moments where you act, think, feel and all in such a way that it's really far from your type? Maybe to an extreme where its almost the opposite even?

Does it happen often to you?

 

[Jason]

When getting high or drinking I often became someone totally different. Sometimes it worked ok but for the most part it got me in trouble. Do you ever feel like you don't fit you type RedN?

 

[ApostateAbe]

No. I don't even change my type when I am drunk or high. Does it happen to you?

 

[pjoa09]

You could. Spending too much time with other types and in the attempt of fitting in you might temporarily change the skin of your color so to speak.

Spend time alone. You will just find yourself. No matter how bizarre you really are.

 

[RedN]

I was just thinking about it last night. For a while now I thought it was my meds thats changed me but remembering things again, I think I was just like this even way before I took them - my teens even.

I was really lively before and I think I just became reclusive and really introverted after the breakup with someone for 8 years. I mean we did everything together, went everywhere together, i mean every freakin meal we ate together. I think i was more like depressed then...? Only now after a long time am I finding myself again.

sorry, mind isnt really working right now.

 

[Milo]

Sounds like manic depression triggered by something. I used to have it chronically until I changed my diet and started exercising more. It also helped me to realize I should let the past go and start thinking about what is next (but not too far in the future) because I used to worry about a lot of things all the time.

 

[Suraj]

Myers-Briggs' book calls this the "shadow side", which is the emergence of behavior seemingly inconsistent with one's personality type. It gives an example of a wife wrongly characterizing her outwardly-cold husband as a thinker rather than a feeler, even though he's actually ISFJ.

For the past few weeks I've been very extroverted - that is, wanting to go out as opposed to forcing myself to - but now I'm burned out, back to my introverted self. It was certainly productive developing my social muscle, but at the end of the day (and during the beginning and middle of it, too) I'd much rather hang out with myself.

Lately, I've been consciously working on my judging trait.

 

[RedN]

Hmmmmm so im not crazy then... its just my shadow side. thats comforting... the way it sounds

 

[SLushhYYY]

Yah sometimes, but the voices always remind me that I'm acting differently, or stupidly. That goes for when I'm under the influence of any substance as well. Most of the time I ignore it and just go with the flow since I know im only acting differently because of my surroundings and different people, at the end of the day im still my unusual self.

Lol, I highly doubt you're crazy.

 

[Manic]

It happens to me sometimes. Drinking exacerbates whatever my mood happens to be; when I'm up it almost turns me into an E!

 

[redbaron]

I've done a lot of stupid, ISTP-type things in my time.

I did made the conscious decision to never do anything stupid while drunk, high or tripping since it would most likely be a bad decision. If I decide to do something while entirely sober, it's because I'm sure that it's relatively safe and won't result consequences that I'll end up regretting later.

In spite of that, I've lit myself on fire, flipped off balconies and taunted police just for the thrill of it and ensuing hilarity/hysteria.

I definitely identify with a lot of aspects of being ISTP that even contradict those of INTP - I can identify with both. Defined by my love for thrill-seeking, I would be ISTP. Defined by my preferences and my thinking, INTP.

Overall I would say I approach everything with an INTP mind, but I consciously allow myself to take in the outside world and just live in the moment. I am still primarily inside my own head, but I try to shut down my Ne and let Se have some fun for a while. I can't do it all the time, but I think that we all need to do a few things that are out of character if we want to truly be happy.

EDIT: I think I kind of derailed the thread, considering ISTP is not THAT far from INTP and it was meant to be about acting like nothing CLOSE to your type.

Sorry!