How does depression feel like in Fe vs Fi users

[Idunno]

i know that mental disorders are out of the realm of typology but if there are any, how does a Fi users experience differ from a Fe user in terms of depression

 

[hepiaaro]

Um, Fi users have more detailed knowledge of what they are feeling. This is the only difference I can see.
I am an Fi user, and when I was depressed, I behaved just like everyone else.

 

[Reluctantly]

I think Fi has more issues in dealing with their own feelings about things.

Fe more to do with not being a part of the group.

Other than that, I'd say it's the same.

 

[Jennywocky]

There seems to be some gender-based differences of expression, but those could be partly socially influenced. (Males with depression can be harder to recognize due to the expression differences.)

Not really aware of anything categorical that would be different between Fe and Fi in terms of the depression itself. People's personalities however influence how they view themselves when they are depressed and what their expectations for themselves might be.

 

[Quietude]

I don't know if there is any difference between the two, perhaps in how they may react to the depression in their every day life. Since I really don't know much about how depression may affect personality type, specifically Fi vs Fe, I can only offer my own experience with bouts of depression. I think that normally I have a fairly good use of my Fe. I am an Ni-Fe user (I think), so not my strongest function, but in there.

Trying to go with what relates to my Fe alone, when I begin to struggle with depression, I also start to withdraw from people, and I can't handle other peoples' emotions for them. In a way, I am very much aware of other peoples' feelings and I absorb them, and feel in part responsible for them, so it can drive me crazy and this is why I need to withdraw so much, because I can't handle it any more and the only way to free myself of that extra burden is to separate myself from others, since I can't shut it out very easily as long as I am around them. I am not very in tuned to my own feelings and emotions on the other hand, so I often don't realize I am depressed right away until it is bad.

In a way, I also do not have a strong self identity, since I am not so in tuned to my own feelings, so when I begin struggling with depression, I also become a bit dissasociative and detached. For a time I thought I was INTP, since I thought I was using Ti quite a bit, but I think I get into Ni-Ti loops, which might stem from my bouts of depression and withdrawing into my introverted functions. With different levels of depression I have different levels of reaction and such, at times being more apathetic, other times more gloomy and sad, or struggling with anger.

Because of my Fe, I have always by nature been very friendly and engaging with in-person communication (outside of family), so even when depressed, I am this way, though it wears me out, thus the reason I withdraw. But really, all these things can happen to anyone with depression.

Basically:
I withdraw.
I become listless.
I can't handle others feelings.
I struggle to take care of others.
I can't take care of myself.
I give up on people and friendships.


I only speak from my own personal experience, and I am also not completely certain of my own personality type, so I could be wrong on that too in some of my explanations regarding my reactions. Also, I have never been clinically diagnosed with depression, though I have had other health issues (non-mental), which have resulted in my depression bouts.

 

[nanook]

Fe=Self Hate. The classic example of the loved family member(lover/best friend) who can't admit that they don't want to be part of this family(relationship/circle of friends), instead they act like they are so horrible that surely nobody in their family would want to have anything to do with them so that they have an excuse to escape into alone time, for which they have no productive use, since their Fe makes them devalue everything that is not of benefit to their family. say they have the impulse to paint a picture. they will only end up hating the fact that their picture isn't good enough to impress everyone in their family. they will bother other people with their self-hate drama, for example ask for compliments and everyone who says the picture is great is accused of lying, but everyone who says the picture is shit is accused of being a monstrous murderer, because the individual's sense of survival is fused with having value to other people.

(results from inability to listen to the voice of Ni or Si)

Fi=Apathy. the inability to feel that you can do something with your life. you get by with least resistance and practice escapism. you feel that life has put you down, but it's doesn't feel or sound like self-hate or self-deprecation, more like pessimism and lack of confidence. if anything, people would accuse the apathic person of self-pitty, because the person would like to have a life, but knows that they can't pull it off. they appear to ask for invitations, but reject most invitations because they don't match the individuals needs. buried alive, hitting against the wood of the coffin. it's perfectly described by teal scott in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu9MPRzpEbQ

Fi uses can have a mild shadow of something similar to the Fe principle through their Te, however in this case it looks more like the con of a simulator (someone who plays sick so he does not have to go to war). they might suggest that they do want to fit in and have a life like anybody else, but they perceive it as duty and end to means so they can't muster up the courage and enthusiasm to actually do it and live through the details of it. they can't perceive possible forms of life as opportunity and can't find opportunities that promise self-actualisation. everything about possible forms of life seems horribly unappealing. they will be accused of being dead inside, as if it's their mistake, that reality has put them down. the idea of reality is informed by Te, which is usually hostile towards Fi.

(Fi has been suffocated by reality)


there are different levels of depression, these examples are neurotic patterns that you may grow up with.

other examples are more generic, independent of type. whenever a person grows, they will have to let go of their previous world or role in the world and that can appear as depression.

 

[Bock]

Fe=Self Hate. The classic example of the loved family member(lover/best friend) who can't admit that they don't want to be part of this family(relationship/circle of friends), instead they act like they are so horrible that surely nobody in their family would want to have anything to do with them so that they have an excuse to escape into alone time, for which they have no productive use, since their Fe makes them devalue everything that is not of benefit to their family. because the individual's sense of survival is fused with having value to other people.

Gave me a similar experience to what

http://www.intp.org/intprofile.html

did when i first stumbled upon it.

 

[MrBean13]

It FEels FIshy if I had to FInish this sentence with the goal of FEeding you information.

I'm an Fi user (and also a guy, i like Kirko Bangz he's like my hero no homo) and its cool but my Fi always makes me feel insecure in my manhood; I always feel like a 12 year old boy spending the night at my creepy uncle's house and I have to hide that or else people think I might be metrosexual, or worse, into sitcoms like "The Nanny". They say depression hurts and suddenly I may go from FEeling FIne till my Fi gets activated by the inFInite mental FIlaments in my brain. I might need some FEmara so I don't grow tts.

So that's what it FEels like from a FI user's point of view.

 

[Yellow]

I don't know that depression would feel different for different people. I think the variances (attributed to gender, age, culture, personality, etc.) exist in how a person interprets and expresses the depression.

 

[Latte]

It FEels FIshy if I had to FInish this sentence with the goal of FEeding you information.

I'm an Fi user (and also a guy, i like Kirko Bangz he's like my hero no homo) and its cool but my Fi always makes me feel insecure in my manhood; I always feel like a 12 year old boy spending the night at my creepy uncle's house and I have to hide that or else people think I might be metrosexual, or worse, into sitcoms like "The Nanny". They say depression hurts and suddenly I may go from FEeling FIne till my Fi gets activated by the inFInite mental FIlaments in my brain. I might need some FEmara so I don't grow tts.

So that's what it FEels like from a FI user's point of view.

I know that Feel too slithering around in seeming samsaraging right now because I prefer the scorching sunny 180 despite the bustling nature of the uncontrollably awake intencity in that valley of water and flame.

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Unrelated: The alternative is not touching the ground in a floaty manner.