Apathy

[Black Rose]

I seem to have allot of emotions. Are INTPs mostly apathetic or is that a stereotype.

 

[Words]

I can only speak for my self. I am the most impassive person I know. Both outward and inward, but possibly mainly outward.

I surprise people with my sudden angers and rare positive faces.

People often have this wrongly-related negative first impression of me being a "snob"(sigh).

This is a tragedy; The lack of emotion handicaps my ability to become as much motivated as most people I know.

 

[Black Rose]

How do emotions affect you when they occur. I panic/suppress mine.

 

[Words]

^ Yes, it is quite unstable. The "temperature" goes quickly back to 0.

 

[Fallenman]

I'm apathetic. I have a constant just nothingness throughout my days. I have a friend who goes absolutely berserk over candy. I can't even begin to comprehend how anyone could be so happy over something so insignificant. I don't even know what something like that would look like for me.

 

[Black Rose]

I'm apathetic. I have a constant just nothingness throughout my days. I have a friend who goes absolutely berserk over candy. I can't even begin to comprehend how anyone could be so happy over something so insignificant. I don't even know what something like that would look like for me.

When I am excited I like to keep it private. The most I can show emotionally is a smile. Theatrics would be embarrassing.

 

[nihilen.]

INTPs are the most likely to hide their emotions.

Some are actually apathetic, others are an emotional mess.

 

[Fool]

People say that I don't care about anything. Truth is, I DO care, I just would rather not show it. I'm not sure why I would rather not show it, but I believe it has something to do with not wanting people to manipulate me.

 

[RedLoki]

When talking to others I noticed when we're talking about something I actually care about, I tend to naturally revert inward, wall up and pretend I don't care. I tried to rationalize it as being afraid to open up, letting others know more about what goes on in my mind feels very awkward and impeding. What's really sad is I met someone who I actually shared a lot of interests and beliefs with, but I did this and realized it a month later -.-

I also have the exact opposite problem too. I learned to almost pretend to care about what people say, I've even been told I'm charming. I force myself to create a concise mental imagine about what people say to me and try to fill in gaps or make appropriate comments about how I want to be perceived. But the sad truth is I really don't care. I want to care, I try to care, but down inside I just can't empathize at all.

 

[Midus]

I am an emotional person. I just try not to show it or let it affect my decision making. I've come to the conclusion that I am emotionally immature. I always sweep things away and try to forget about them. 22 years of this had led me to have very little experience with emotions with further fuels my need to push them away.

When something really hits me, I tend to hit extremes before quickly suppressing the emotion and putting it away somewhere. Sometimes I come back later and think it over and try to come to grips with it logically. Other times I just leave it alone. I often feel embarrassed when people see me get emotional.

Examples. My brother was shot four weeks ago(He is fine now). I was hanging out at a bar when this happened. Left the bar, and punched a wall just outside. By the time I got to the hospital, I was back to being calm and collected. Went from calm to extreme anger to calm very quickly.

A girl that I've been in love with for months rejected me the other day. Cried during the rejection. By the next day, I was fine. Embarrassed, but fine. Me showing emotion to the girl hit me harder than the rejection itself in the long run. I guess I see it as a sign of weakness in a weird way.

 

[citrusbreath95]

When I was much younger I was an emotional mess, and I didn't have a good handle over my feelings, they just sort of all "came out", (I was angered easily) though I think this originated from frustration of not being understood (now I know why... INTP ) but as I got older I calmed down, and now my emotions really don't get in the way, I suppose this is a form of apathy, though I'm not completely apathetic as I still get things done that need to be. I just don't reveal my emotions. I do have emotions/feelings of things though I just don't let that get in the way of choices I make. It seems as the years progress, I emotionally mature (funny, I thought they said your teenage years are an emotional rollercoaster...

 

[Cati]

I'd say apathy is a defining trait of my personality. In fact, most people I know are surprised when I show any sign or emotion whatsoever. I would be annoyed about this, but I really don't care.

 

[Philosophyking87]

I am generally apathetic and unassertive.
Mostly, I just go through phases of caring and not caring.

For instance, I don't really care if God exists or not anymore.
It's beneath me. And I don't really care for the state of politics.
It just seems to be the same old shit regardless. Why bother?

 

[Alexk]

I'm extremely apathetic. Something has to prove value for me to care, and lately nothing really does, so I pretty much don't care about anything. When I do become emotional its only over something that has proven value.
I'm pretty sure if I wasn't apathetic I would be depressed, so I don't see anything wrong with it heh.

 

[Lobstrich]

I'm very apathetic, but it's an objective apathy.
I'm apathetic towards people that expect me to comfort them.. Very.
But when people come to me in search for "enlightment" I happy to oblige!
(I know enlightment is not a feeling, but I WANT to help them.)
I'm not saying I'm some kind of god that enlightens non-intp's
I'm just saying that when people want me to help them out, figure out stuff, or just ask me stuff or the like. I'm as I just said, happy to oblige.

Actually that was a bad example.. I'm not going to delete it though, waste of time! Hehe

But I have this example: My grandmother just died. And my mother is sad (obviously) And right now she is seeking to her boyfriend. But also me, and there is nothing to seek. I don't WANT to comfort her, I want to just think about it myself.
And today she just told me that she had gone to see her body kind of as a "goodbye"
And she told me that she had kind of pinched her, because she had hoped she would wake up. And I find it stupid.. She is NOT going to wake up, and my mom knows that. And I know why she did it. Because: She's thinking even though she is dead, what IF she is alive and just sleeping.
And I acknowledge that is what she is thinking, but I plain and simple think it's stupid.

Now I'm going to stop as I get the feelin that I'm just typing and typing and non of it actually makes sense when you read it.. But rest assured, if that's the case. It certainly did make sense in my head! Not that, that is going to "enligten" you, hehe.

 

[Cognisant]

Apathy itself is pointless too, so I try not to avoid being apathetic for its own sake.

 

[Lobstrich]

Apathy itself is pointless too, so I try not to avoid being apathetic for its own sake.

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend being an ass just for fun, hehe.

 

[VwllssWndr]

I got a new cable modem a month or two ago. It needed to be calibrated through tech support for me to access the internet. After the guy got it working, he asked if I needed anything else.

"No, everything seems to be working okay as far as I can tell."
"You don't seem very convinced, are you sure there's nothing I can do?"
"No," I replied, "everything's fine. I'm just unenthusiastic."

 

[RedLoki]

I can't help but feel apathetic, I have to force myself not to be and I hate doing that. I need alcohol or kava kava stop forcing it, open up and stop thinking excessively. Not a lot of alcohol, just enough to be more present minded. Has anyone else used alcohol (or kava kava) to feel less apathetic?

 

[intp a]

In every situation I choose do I want to care or just be apathetic. What I want to say it is that it depends on situation

 

[420MuNkEy]

I would post a serious reply to this thread, but I just don't care.