Introspection

[Sugarpop]

Are you good at it?

Personally, I've spent quite some time trying to map out what's going on in the dim cesspool of my emotions. I have some difficulties in doing so, but I believe that I have reflected more on the matter than the majority of my peers. At the very least, I now have some qualified hypotheses as to why I feel like I do when I do. My feelings used to be utterly inexplicable to me, so I suppose significant progress has been made. Still, old patterns are hard to break.

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

very much so. right now in fact...

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

I must be terrible at it. I can feel sad or angry or happy and have absolutely NO idea why. I can't say I look really hard anymore though. I used to try and couldn't reach conclusions.

 

[sagewolf]

I psychoanalyze myself all the time. I try to figure out why I do the things I do and why I feel the way I do, and I've, at times, come up with some fairly accurate answers, I think. It didn't help me, though, because knowing why I was doing something didn't help me to know what to do or to force myself to talk to anyone about it. I constantly try to define my personality and my essence, but I seem to constantly elude my grasp. Perhaps, though, it's simply that I'm constantly changing, so my previous evaluations of myself are no longer completely valid and must be redefined.

 

[Ermine]

I analyze my actions more than I do my feelings, but I am quite introspective if I have a pen and paper handy.

 

[dwags222]

i have always been hyper-sensitive of how i feel. i kinda always figured this would be a natural result of intp's desire to understand everything . . . surprised to hear about how bad intp's are at understanding their own feelings, i just thought they were bad at expressing them.

 

[cheese]

^I think they mean they cannot grasp the source of their feelings, even though they can identify the feelings themselves.

 

[Ermine]

i have always been hyper-sensitive of how i feel. i kinda always figured this would be a natural result of intp's desire to understand everything . . . surprised to hear about how bad intp's are at understanding their own feelings, i just thought they were bad at expressing them.

In theory, we wouldn't be so good at this variety of soul searching as we have Fe instead of Fi.

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

Having a very strong Fi with a very weak Fe is very hard to cope with....

 

[cheese]

Soth:
Theoretically Fi should be your very weakest function.

 

[Anhedonia]

I feel like I do, but I also feel like theres some kind of cognitive bias in play that might have some kind of impact on how accurate I really am. Almost like reading your own tarot cards .