Why INFJs and INFPs Overthink EVERYTHING
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- čas přidán 6. 02. 2023
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Overthinking is a big problem for both INFJ personality types and INFP personality types. Overthinking is tied to INFJs and INFPs struggling overall with creativity, feeling connected to their intuition, and life in general. So many INFJs and INFPs ask: “I overthink everything. Why can’t I stop?” Overthinking for INFJs and INFPs manifests differently, but with either type, it tends to show up around the same areas in life-specifically in writing and creativity, and in relationships and interpersonal interactions. In all of these areas, overthinking tends to manifest as decision anxiety. For INFP personality types, overthinking shows up as the feeling of having too many ideas and not knowing how to choose between them all. The underlying fear is that they will “choose wrong,” and they feel that if they make the wrong choice, they will ruin the creative project, or the relationship. INFJ personality types experience decision anxiety around following their intuition over using logic and/pr proven formulas. The underlying fear is that they will end up with a creative “mess” or that they will make a “mess” of their life. So many INFJs and INFPs feel stuck in life and held back by mental and emotional blocks that they can’t seem to get past, and this is mostly due to overthinking. If an INFJ personality type or an INFP personality type can learn to get out of their head and move into their intuition, the struggle of INFJ overthinking and INFP overthinking falls away and they can finally move forward and stop self-sabotaging.
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I'm always misunderstood by others.
I understand everyone, but I feel like no one understands me.
Give yourself time to just listen to yourself it's worth it :), Greetings from Germany
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It's not necessary to feel understood by everyone. It's good enough to have a small amount of authentic relationships.
This is stuff that I need to be reminded of on a regular basis. "Stop Thinking" is a necessary but difficult phase to enter.
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I like to think of myself as a cognitive outlier, not neuro diverse. I accept that I process differently, and help others to expect my thoughts to be different.
You know I have been so afraid to make any decisions that now I see life has passed me by in many ways, so many missed opportunities. Thank you for your channel content. 💜🕯🙏
Out of all the videos related to INFJ, your explanations are the most spot on to what I'm feeling 😅
Lauren explains exactly why my stories explode into galaxies of ideas that get off topic. I have a number of ideas with no resolution--kind of like why Jane Austin's novels never really come to conclusions.
This couldn’t Be more timely!! I’ve literally spent the past few weekends in a thinking coma trying to figure out what’s my next step and what I want to create out of my blank canvas of a life. I don’t want to waste time nor make a wrong decision and I definitely don’t want to make a mess out of my life, especially since I’ve spent the last year cleaning up all the pieces. I look forward to learning more about this class. I’m ready for what’s next, I just need help getting there.
It's so true... the fear of chaos is so big, when the pressure outside gets higher.
An INFJ, and this video just hit home heavily. Thank you💙🌎 I also rewrote this like 12 times
Everything. Because we analyze everything.
Your timing is perfect. My wife commented this morning about my overthinking. I'm an INFP with a very close score on the P-J scale. It is fear that is the uniting theme. Thank you for explaining this. Having ADD doesn't help, either.
I relate to both INFJ and INFP fears you mention here! I am an INFJ (even though the J-P test results are just so close) but I relate totally to both here, not one more than the other... Actually cos of the J/P result so close it is always a bit confusing since depending on the circumstances I feel that I am both INFJ/P.... even here I feel I don't fit in again cos it is not as clear as it is for some other people
Too much, too many IDEAS :/ don't wanna choose wrong. That was me when I was younger. Nowadays I manage the overwhelm and don't care I just pick one and God already gave me the grand vision so the rest is just trial and error.
This rings 100% true and is so timely! Thank you Lauren.
you are awesome!
This happened to me with a relationship infp