INTP's and Schizo-ness

[Otherside]

Found this on a site about celebrity INTPs but I don't know what their source was:

About INTPs

Abstract-minded systems analysts

Amongst the types with the highest average IQ

Strongly linked to the Schizotypal personality

Somewhat linked to the Schizoid personality

More common amongst men than amongst women

Repress their Extroverted Feeling function, meaning that they may irrationally submit to certain conventions in a suspension of their usual critical analysis




Interesting.

 

[MsAnthropy_Indefatigably]

I actually believed I had schizoid personality Disorder initially (probably still do), but I found that the explanation of having INTP typing makes even more sense. I belong to a Psych Forum and found that, even though I shared a lot of similarities to being schizoid, I don't quite understand their absolute hatred of anything socially-related at all. I'm not that bad. None of the women in that forum had kids, which was another thing. No one could relate to me reproducing and raising offspring.

Anyhoo, point being, I feel a lot more closely affiliated with just being INTP versus being SPD.

 

[Otherside]

I'm a schizotypal male with a daughter but manage to have what I think is a healthy relationship with her. It takes everything I've got, but the parent-child bond is so strong that I'm happy to give it everything.

It's become such a significant issue in my life that it effects everything else to a much greater degree though.

 

[MsAnthropy_Indefatigably]

I'm a schizotypal male with a daughter but manage to have what I think is a healthy relationship with her. It takes everything I've got, but the parent-child bond is so strong that I'm happy to give it everything.

It's become such a significant issue in my life that it effects everything else to a much greater degree though.

You aren't alone. I sometimes feel like my son loves me WAYYYY too much. But I guess that is what pure and real love is supposed to feel like. I reflect at times when he just comes up to me, just to say, "Mommy I just wanted to tell you that I love you more than anything in the world", And he's NOT even being sarcastic or anything! I feel so bad that I don't give him that kind of verbal support back, but then I feel like, "well, I'm just not that kind of person". I make sure to give him whatever attention he asks of me, but I also have to be cautious of my limits because then I tend to become annoyed (my feeling tank becomes empty) and I complain of his attention rather than accept it.

 

[Otherside]

You aren't alone. I sometimes feel like my son loves me WAYYYY too much. But I guess that is what pure and real love is supposed to feel like. I reflect at times when he just comes up to me, just to say, "Mommy I just wanted to tell you that I love you more than anything in the world", And he's NOT even being sarcastic or anything! I feel so bad that I don't give him that kind of verbal support back, but then I feel like, "well, I'm just not that kind of person". I make sure to give him whatever attention he asks of me, but I also have to be cautious of my limits because then I tend to become annoyed (my feeling tank becomes empty) and I complain of his attention rather than accept it.

Nice to find another parent. My daughter seems to be developing as an INTP, something I didn't expect because no child in my family ever seemed to have a similar personality to either parent. Her mom is probably an ESTJ, and I expected a blend that would be like neither of us.

I think it's the naturally shared understanding we have of each other that makes the time we spend together so much fun. We have a blast when we do something like go to an arcade. Probably because I can be such a "kid".

 

[Pizzabeak]

This is interesting news.

1st. Here's this article about what rapper Kanye West meant in one of his songs, the lyrics go: "That shit Kray" (it sounds like he's saying "cray", crazy without the z). Turns out the Kray twins were actually schizophrenic and the cops supposedly couldnt find them.

http://www.therundown.tv/headlines/...kanye-west-meant-when-he-said-that-shit-cray/

2. After I smoked weed a few times I started to think I was schizophrenic. Glad to hear it's probably a somewhat common issue between 'us'. Also, marijuana supposedly is linked to schizophrenia, but there are hardly any data.

3. Shamanism is linked to schizo, as in (and I've done a modest amount of "research" on shamanism) they are able to perceive reality in multiple ways - similar to that of a schizo, apparently. This is somewhat related to that other thread we had a discussion in (I considered replying in that one). Here's a video (the narrator, Terence McKenna, was a pothead.. Make of that what you will):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEglHjd_gUQ

So yeah, some concepts in shamanism probably sound ridiculous to the more physical grounded person, but I'd like to believe there's some amount of credibility in them.

 

[Otherside]

That's interesting, but I don't know if the creator has ever experienced psychosis.

Here's a movie clip that does a better job. The George Clooney character only exists in the mind of the other actor (playing Chuck Barris), and is probably an amalgamation of people and events that Barris imagined or misperceived while psychotic.

Explaining it would be like explaining the concept of having a dream to a person who has never had one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs8k31_ucJ8&feature=relmfu

 

[Otherside]

More importantly, the person in psychosis feels that others know things about them that they have never divulged to anyone, and sometimes feel they are being persecuted for them.