Someone just said to me that under stress you become your opposite.
What do you think of this statement.
I'm not sure it's that cut and dried though. I feel that as stress increases, your functions change BUT it depends on the stress.
For instance, if it's a fight with my SO, I can't even remember what's said afterward, only feelings (I always lose fights) UNLESS I'm angry - then I seem to become a lawyer with insane debate capabilities.[/QUOTE]
I get brain freeze. My brain stops working. It stinks and is not useful at all.
Pretty much me, as I said - unless someone actually manages to get me angry. Somehow that makes it different.I'm not sure it's that cut and dried though. I feel that as stress increases, your functions change BUT it depends on the stress.
For instance, if it's a fight with my SO, I can't even remember what's said afterward, only feelings (I always lose fights) UNLESS I'm angry - then I seem to become a lawyer with insane debate capabilities.[/QUOTE]
I get brain freeze. My brain stops working. It stinks and is not useful at all.
Honestly, I have no clue. If I'm hurt, I go pure emotion/intuition. I may as well not even know what words are.Why do you think anger makes a difference. Does the adreniline jump start everything?
One of the theories of the MBTI is that under extreme stress people become their opposite type.
For example, when faced with a problem a person will try to tackle it in their preferred way by using their primary and auxiliary functions (which in an INFJ would obviously be Ni and Fe).
If that doesn't work then, if the person become stressed enough, they will try to use their tertiary and their inferior/shadow functions instead (in INFJs: Ti and Se). So they will approach the problem (and therefore appear to be) like their opposite type (in this example: an ESTP).
Unfortunately, because most people haven't really developed the proper use of their other functions and because in this situation they are under such stress, they tend to behave like a very negative version of their opposite.
Someone just said to me that under stress you become your opposite.
What do you think of this statement.
Unusually introspective, overly sensitive or dramatic and withdrawn, perhaps..what would a negative ESTP act like though?
what would a negative ESTP act like though?
:typing:Someone just said to me that under stress you become your opposite.
What do you think of this statement.