Calling my fellow INFJ personalities.

[Pacifist Patriot]

Did you know we are the rarest personality type accounting for only 1% of the population? Interesting that we accounted for such a high turnout on the M-B thread.

Beneath the quiet exterior, INFJs hold deep convictions about the weightier matters of life. Those who are activists -- INFJs gravitate toward such a role -- are there for the cause, not for personal glory or political power.

INFJs are champions of the oppressed and downtrodden. They often are found in the wake of an emergency, rescuing those who are in acute distress. INFJs may fantasize about getting revenge on those who victimize the defenseless. The concept of 'poetic justice' is appealing to the INFJ.

"There's something rotten in Denmark." Accurately suspicious about others' motives, INFJs are not easily led. These are the people that you can rarely fool any of the time. Though affable and sympathetic to most, INFJs are selective about their friends. Such a friendship is a symbiotic bond that transcends mere words.

INFJs have a knack for fluency in language and facility in communication. In addition, nonverbal sensitivity enables the INFJ to know and be known by others intimately.

Writing, counseling, public service and even politics are areas where INFJs frequently find their niche.

Okay, not so surprising. :)

We share a personality profile with Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Teresa, Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King, Jr.

:applause:

[EFerrari]

1. I wonder how many of us there are at DU?

lol

:thumbsup:

[coffeenap]

2. I'm one, according to my test this morning. No wonder I have

suffered from depression since I was 10--who understands us but other "usses"?

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. *chuckle* indeed

[EFerrari]

4. Some understanding people but if you look at Pacifist Patriot's list

they're all DEAD.

:rofl:

[coffeenap]

5. Ok, who's up for a nice seance???

:shrug: :grouphug:

[EFerrari]

6. Me! And maybe Dennis Kucinich. lol

:hug:

:grouphug:

[coffeenap]

7. I'll do anything to meet Dennis! (And you, btw!)

:hug:

[EFerrari]

8. I bet Dennis has our MBs and I bet he'll be in our hoods this year.

:)

:hi:

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. Hey, what about Jimmy Carter?

I could have added Tom Selleck and Shirley MacLaine to the list, but I figured I'd go with non-entertainment industry for a bit more respectability.

[EFerrari]

13. Oops!

:blush:

[gbate]

23. I have also suffered from depression and anxiety.

[crim son]

9. Checking in.

Bet you're surprised, aren't you? :P

[coffeenap]

10. Oh, I love having something in common with people

so obviously popular around here. (Maybe I can get into the clique now????):P

[crim son]

14. You're already in, baby.

I wonder if there is something to the INFJ/depression connection.

[coffeenap]

15. I would bet on it!!! nt

[EFerrari]

16. Sure. Some people call it a defense against reality.

No shame there. :)

[crim son]

19. I've suffered from depression all my life too,

though as I grow older it's become more episodic and less a constant state of being. I can express very clearly how the desire and ability to understand how other people think fucks up my own thinking. Reality bites.

[EFerrari]

29. It can. But, it can be great, too.

:hug:

[LostinVA]

12. OMG -- I am, too!

[gbate]

17. When I first took this test years ago, I shrugged my shoulders. Now that I am older, I get it.

I am *so much* an INFJ and I knew that we were the rarest of the types. What I think is the most telling about me is the part about friendships. I am very choosy about who I call a friend. The list is pretty small.

http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html

[coffeenap]

18. Same here. I always do friendship backwards: first I need to know

if we share the deep stuff. Then, and only then, can I share the shallow stuff! It works better now as a "mature" adult, but it did not work before.

[crim son]

20. I do the opposite to stave off loneliness.

Years of practice make me capable of great superficiality. The people who know me well, there are five or six of them, mostly close family members.

[EFerrari]

30. This is so interesting because I used to be more like coffeenap

or maybe, I'm mostly still that way. But in the last 10 years, I've developed this whole other speed which is social, not personal, because it could get pretty lonely married to a chronically ill and unavailable person. So, I learned how to talk to pretty much anyone I meet on my block, including stray cats and the meter readers. lol

[WritingIsMyReligion]

21. Nuh-uh! INTJs are rarererererer!

:P :P

Seriously, though, each is about 1% of the population. Compared to them 4 artisan types runnin' around as almost 45% of the population. Cloggin' my good NT water, them is.....

:crazy:

[VenusRising]

22. Another INFJ!

I was not at all shocked at reading the description. It sounded like reading my generalized biography.

I've also had depression and anxiety since early childhood.

:grouphug:

[ganeshji]

24. I felt the same way.

Like a lot of us apparently, I have suffered from depression the majority of my life as well.

[Z_I_Peevey]

25. Reportin' fer duty!

I'm thrilled to be in such good company.

[LaurenG]

26. I am an INFJ

:hi:

[Dervill Crow]

27. I'm INFJ.

I was ISTJ when I took the test about 15 years ago. Strange, huh?

[distantearlywarning]

28. I am an INFJ.

:hi:

The description you posted describes me perfectly, by the way.

ON EDIT: I also suffer from depression and anxiety, and like a few of you upthread, I firmly believe that most of these problems are due to "seeing the world as it really is", and beyond that, not being able to effectively discuss or communicate that reality with other people around me (because they don't understand, or are in denial, or whatever). I even feel that way on DU a lot, although it's better here than in the real world.

[last_texas_dem]

31. That's me

Another depression/anxiety-suffering INFJ-er! :hi:

[BlueIris]

32. INFJ checking in.

M-B is the second personality test to classify me as having a rare personality type. I think it was the Minnesota Multi-Phasic that labeled me a submissive, introverted, abstract thinker, which is supposedly only 8% of the population.