Mental issues

[HumidDesert]

Hello, i am wondering if anyone else has mental issues. I have several, and they seem quite fitting for the personality type:

1) Social Anxiety Disorder (aka, Social Phobia)

2) Antisocial Disorder

3) OCD (maybe this ones unrelated, but i find myself tapping constantly whenever i'm even a little anxious.)

4) Oppositional Defiant Disorder (authority problems.)

5) Insomnia (technically not a disorder, but symptom. Bad enough to be worth mentioning though.)

6) (extreme) Dissociative Disorder

As you can tell, this really sucks. My therapist thinks it was due to a traumatic childhood, but i'm still curious if anyone else shares any of these disorders, or has some of their own. Thanks.

 

[Razare]

Yes, but if you did not have those issues, maybe you'd test as a different personality type. Ever consider that?

If an extrovert develops anti-social disorder, they might start testing as an introvert.

But no, I don't really have them. I stay up too late, avoid crowds, have only one close friend that lives in Australia, but that's just me and how I am. Large gatherings do make me somewhat anxious, though. Not sure if that's social anxiety or a byproduct of extreme introversion.

Get me in 1 on 1 discussions, though, and I'm fine.

 

[Silas]

Dissociative identity disorder, dissociative amnesia?

I think as a result of a super stressful mother, I developed a false genius complex, or what known as the downing effect, probably as a coping mechanism.
I definitely have had issues of my Ti being too controlling, likely on the verge of Schizoid personality disorder.
Fantasised too much, namely imagining myself as a lot better than I was etc
Probably have had depression most of my life, still have a little anxiety.

But no social phobias or OCD, I dare-say your therapist may be a little bit wrong with the social phobias, Fe naturally being inferior is going to cause social awkwardness/shyness sooner or later.
I suspect INTP's are going to abit more prone to mental issues than others, but hopefully we are good at ridding ourselves of them too once we understand what went wrong.

 

[HumidDesert]

Dissociative identity disorder, dissociative amnesia?

I think as a result of a super stressful mother, I developed a false genius complex, or what known as the downing effect, probably as a coping mechanism.
I definitely have had issues of my Ti being too controlling, likely on the verge of Schizoid personality disorder.
Fantasised too much, namely imagining myself as a lot better than I was etc
Probably have had depression most of my life, still have a little anxiety.

But no social phobias or OCD, I dare-say your therapist may be a little bit wrong with the social phobias, Fe naturally being inferior is going to cause social awkwardness/shyness sooner or later.
I suspect INTP's are going to abit more prone to mental issues than others, but hopefully we are good at ridding ourselves of them too once we understand what went wrong.

Nah bro, he aint wrong. I get panic attacks sometimes when i'm in a group of people i don't know. And as for your original question, the subtype of dissociative disorder is Depersonalization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization_disorder) I have always found it very relaxing, and if i can think when it happens it does wonders to the thought process. But it deffinately has its drawbacks.

 

[Methuselah]

Hello, i am wondering if anyone else has mental issues. I have several, and they seem quite fitting for the personality type:

1) Social Anxiety Disorder (aka, Social Phobia)

2) Antisocial Disorder

3) OCD (maybe this ones unrelated, but i find myself tapping constantly whenever i'm even a little anxious.)

4) Oppositional Defiant Disorder (authority problems.)

5) Insomnia (technically not a disorder, but symptom. Bad enough to be worth mentioning though.)

6) (extreme) Dissociative Disorder

As you can tell, this really sucks. My therapist thinks it was due to a traumatic childhood, but i'm still curious if anyone else shares any of these disorders, or has some of their own. Thanks.

Beware of letting definitions become you. I have known more than one INTP who was making good progress blooming, albeit a bit late, until their therapists told them that they had a few of these disorders. Then all of a sudden instead of trying to work around their social problems, they became obsessed with them and never really moved forward, taking pills and seeing themselves as broken instead.

 

[Methuselah]

Nah bro, he aint wrong. I get panic attacks sometimes when i'm in a group of people i don't know. And as for your original question, the subtype of dissociative disorder is Depersonalization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization_disorder) I have always found it very relaxing, and if i can think when it happens it does wonders to the thought process. But it deffinately has its drawbacks.

What introvert doesn't at some point in time?

Smoking some bud might help you. It helped me cope with things like this. MMJ is far more therapeutic than many people would believe, especially for people who have wound themselves a bit tight.

 

[Cavallier]

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (authority problems.) ---> Describe this to me. Is it just the average chafing under authority taken to an extreme? Frankly, I think everybody suffers from this...or rather I don't trust a person who says they haven't suffered from this at some point.

 

[Methuselah]

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (authority problems.) ---> Describe this to me. Is it just the average chafing under authority taken to an extreme? Frankly, I think everybody suffers from this...or rather I don't trust a person who says they haven't suffered from this at some point.

Indeed. For the most part it is not in our rational self interest to trust in authority. That most people do does not change this fact.

 

[HumidDesert]

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (authority problems.) ---> Describe this to me. Is it just the average chafing under authority taken to an extreme? Frankly, I think everybody suffers from this...or rather I don't trust a person who says they haven't suffered from this at some point.

Thats ones not too serious, basically just get very pissed when people try to controll me.

As for not letting definitions become me, i entirely agree. However, i also beleive that anyone who takes MBTI needs to not allow for this to happen, i have several friends who have focused on this way too much. However, being able to identify your flaws as "broken" and working through them is very important. And you can't medicate most of these (thankfully) it just takes practice. I'm only medicated for the insomnia, and i just accepted it because its proven to increase REM duration and give you more vivid dreams, haha.

 

[RubberDucky451]

1) Social Anxiety Disorder (aka, Social Phobia)

Try to not over analyze things too much, people are much more simpler than you realize. They're probably not as perceptive or as analytical as you.

OCD (maybe this ones unrelated, but i find myself tapping constantly whenever i'm even a little anxious.)

I tap my feet all the time during class, it's totally fine. I would suggest finding something to relax yourself before you're around a lot of people. Listening to some good music usually helps me.

5) Insomnia (technically not a disorder, but symptom. Bad enough to be worth mentioning though.)

I've had this too, the past few months(Been going to bed at 4:00am+). I've found that going for a walk during the day or exercising helps put me to sleep at night. Don't eat anything an hour before bed either.


Also, I had a great childhood and still have trouble with the things you mentioned, so don't worry.