I've noticed something about myself recently, and I'm curious if anyone else experiences this.

Whenever life throws a major setback at me, whether its academics, work, relationships, whatever, I don't just feel sad for a while. I spiral. I overthink every little thing, replay conversations, question my self-worth, and my mind can go to some pretty dark places. In those moments, it genuinely feels like there's no way out.

But then, after a while, which could be hours or days or months, depending on the setback, something strange happens. It's almost like my brain reaches a saturation point where it just says, "Fuck it." It feels like a psychological Zenkai boost.

The closest analogy I can think of is Bruce Wayne climbing out of Bane's prison in The Dark Knight Rises. When you're at the bottom, the climb looks impossible. But once you make it out, you trust yourself more than you did before you fell.

It feels like a superpower sometimes. I feel like maybe other INFPs feel it too?

Either way, I'm grateful that my mind seems to work this way. At this point, I genuinely believe that as long as I'm still me, it's never really over.

Has anyone else experienced something similar?

Warning: it's a joke, kinda. I'm just exhausted at news, at the world as it is. Power, money, religion, corruption, bla bla bla. I wish I could end all of this once and for all with my godly powers and turn the world into a pan-communist with optimal resource logistics. Not being ironic now. WE INFPs SHOULD BE IN POWER! F$ck it, I said it.

Even though i feel so much.. a very scarce amount of it reach the surface and i just cant seem to control it
I find myself toning myself down, my laughter, my sadness, my emotions
Have you ever experienced this and how did you get over it- or handled it? 🙏🏽

I have no issues getting them but keeping them is another thing. I either stop liking them or I pull away for some distance. I don’t know why. I suck at staying in touch with people. Might be a “me” thing.

I don't usually watch movies before bed but I had seen a couple of clips of this movie online and wanted to see what it was all about. And oh my god did it hit me hard, Charlie is quite literally me what's everyone elses thoughts on this movie??

I’m an INTJ. I think I somehow made the INFP girl unhappy during our last meeting. Now she has become passive and has been avoiding another meeting, giving me different reasons to reschedule the date. I don’t have any problem with that, but I’m curious about how I should approach her and ask for clarification about what exactly happened. Or should I just not ask and let things fade over time?

I've noticed that, as I've gotten older, I've started to feel more comfortable with the Si and Te functions.

I'm 38 now, and I don't know why, but sometimes I get an urge to clean the house. I've started to procrastinate on mental or intellectual activities—the ones I usually enjoy—and instead spend time cleaning the house or washing the dishes. After I finish cleaning, I feel satisfied and accomplished.

What about you guys?

Si comes more naturally to me than Te.

I've also started listening to Synthwave or video game music as ambient music to help me focus on my tasks.

I've been trying to get better at writing poetry. I do write things down whenever the thoughts and feelings comeby, and sometimes they dont make sense.

Anyway, I wrote this tonight while trying to understand a feeling that didn't seem to fit into either happiness or sadness. It's about pausing without giving up, watching life continue, and trusting that one day you'll catch up to your own shadow. I hope it resonates with anyone who's ever needed a quiet moment before moving forward. 🩷

Last night I had one of the most uncomfortable dreams I've ever had.

In the dream, my partner and their guardian came to my house with a marriage proposal. Everyone around me acted like this was a happy moment, but I felt nothing except panic. I kept running away, avoiding everyone, hiding, and hoping nobody would find me. I didn't want to get married. I just wanted to escape.

When I woke up, I felt ashamed, guilty, and honestly a little disturbed.

The reason it hit me so hard is because, in real life, I'm already at the point where I think I have to end this relationship.

I still care about them, but the love I used to feel isn't there anymore. For a long time I've felt like I'm the only one putting in the effort. I don't feel acknowledged. I don't feel like a priority. It feels like they're slowly drifting away while I'm the one desperately trying to hold everything together.

I kept giving them the benefit of the doubt. I told myself they were busy, stressed, or just showed love differently. I tried being more patient, more understanding, more affectionate.

But after a while, it started to feel suffocating.

When your love, care, and affection are almost never matched, something inside you slowly dies. You stop feeling safe. You stop feeling wanted. You start questioning your own worth.

I've finally decided to stop being clingy and stop depending on someone who doesn't seem to want me the way I want them.

Maybe that's why this dream bothered me so much. It felt like my mind was forcing me into a future that my heart has already walked away from.

Has anyone else had dreams that made them realize how they truly felt about a relationship? Or dreams that reflected something you were trying to avoid in real life?

I met a guy a few days ago on a dating app and it was going absolutely great at first. Things started escalating fast and we became literally SMITTEN by eachother and flirted hard and talked a lot. Aside, from this he's wonderful and extremely romantic and great. The problem is that he replies late to everything but he's always been a late replier tbh, also I can't find his accounting on the dating app anymore so I have a feeling he might have removed me from there.

Now after talking and flirting all night he keeps reposting romantic stuff. I also see a lot of girls in his followers' list and they are increasing lol (not Instagram models, it's women who follow back). We aren't exclusive ofc so I understand talking to other women even with dating in mind. However, what we had felt very very special and not casual at all, that's alongside the reels he keeps reposting. I'm definitely confused but it makes me feel CERTAIN he is playing. Idk if it's insecurity but I have the biggest crush on him and he seemed like he did too, but everything points to him being a player even though he is quite sincere and laid back and respectful when we talk. He didn't jump into insane flirting for instance or anything, it all seemed natural and romantic.

I feel like I should let it go, but I'm so sad it's probably not real.

Echoes in the Dust

They reached beyond the sacred line,
Trading truth for glittering signs.
Giants walked with towering pride,
Leaving broken hearts behind.

Enoch climbed where silence burned,
Saw the pages still unturned.
He watched the heavens testify,
While shadows whispered polished lies.

The flood erased the flesh from earth,
But hatred searched another birth.
Where envy found an open door,
The ancient hunger asked for more.

Every mirror tells a tale,
Every soul can choose the trail.
Chains are forged from unchecked pride,
Or shattered when we look inside.

Wake the fire beneath your soul,
Don’t let darkness steal control.
Voices calling, smooth as gold,
Selling crowns already sold.

Stand where love and courage meet,
Truth is never in retreat.
Every heartbeat draws the line
Choose the light while there’s still time.

The loudest throne can still be dust,
Power breaks without true trust.
Blame becomes a polished shield,
While honest hearts refuse to yield.

The helm they brought was fear and war,
Making neighbors keep the score.
Every mask became a face,
Mercy vanished without a trace.

Yet every dawn still breaks the night,
Calling sleepers toward the light.
Freedom waits with open hands
Love, not force, is Heaven’s plan.

Who’s pulling strings when nobody’s looking?
Who writes the script while the headlines are cooking?
Pointing fingers, building kingdoms, feeding every empty throne.
Truth gets buried under noise until deception feels like home.

Giant egos wearing halos, shouting, “I’m the only way!”
Never facing what they’re planting, harvesting another day.
Every lie that dodges justice leaves another chain to grow.
Every soul that owns its shadows plants a brighter seed to sow.

Enoch saw beyond the curtain, not to make the fearful freeze,
But to tell us every heartbeat bends the future to our knees.
You can’t conquer hate with hatred. You can’t heal by feeding blame.
The strongest warrior stands humble, lets the refining fire change.

The battle isn’t flesh alone
It’s every choice to harden stone,
Or let compassion break the walls
Before another empire falls.

Raise your eyes above the smoke,
Hear the ancient promise spoken.
Darkness echoes, light replies;
Truth is living, never dies.

Walk the road where mercy leads,
Faith is louder than deceit.
Every soul must freely choose
Love’s the victory we can’t lose.

The dawn is calling… can you hear?
Hope keeps rising year by year.
When the sleeping finally see,
The chains will break… and all are free.

❤️Dawn❤️

I just realized all of my best/close friends since childhood have been either enfp or enfj.

Enfj are usually the longer lasting friendships, very close, mostly the kind of friendship where you don’t need to do anything and can talk for hours. Though these are usually the friends who say they want to do lots of things with you but never get around to it or hang with their other friends more.

Enfp are usually the friendships when we instantly become friends due to doing spontaneous/goofy things together, making random plans and committing, and laughing about everything. Though, these friendships have never lasted long, not due to conflict, just due to our lives no longer intersecting or getting busy or them making more friends and forgetting me lol.

You can write a few :) or albums! But if you write albums please write which songs you consider the ultimate Diamonds there

So Iv been thinking about why theres so much bias against infps online because in real life Im liked by others. And I was thinking about what are the types that consistently like my energy and they are mostly istjs, esfjs, isfjs and they are like the least active on mbti 😭😭

So I think the bias is skewed because our biggest appreciators are too busy enjoying life and not here on reddit

Something I wrote while eating at an ihop last night

Hi i am 24f infp 4w5, i will be 25 this coming september. However, i have got a problem going on throughout my life. It's hilarious to say but i have problem with letting things go, also don't feel comfortable when expressing my anger, disappointment or frustration towards people. I carry these resentments in me for years and when i coincide the people mistreated me again, I can't forget what they've done to me. It also becomes absurd for that person because they have already moved on from the situation or they don't remember what they did to me because i didn't expressed my resentment in the first place and continue acting cold!! I know this is a problem about myself, i don't want to blame anyone. Sometimes i even explode crying, yelling,...etc. I feel like i poison myself and act contradictory towards people. I am scared of the people feeding from my reactions. I am not in the search of seeking revenge or something but i can't forget the mistreatments. Thanks for reading the all.

Recently out of a 15 year relationship. Staying in another city while remote working, to give her time and space to move out. After finishing work I really don't know what to do with myself, so tonight I've just been sitting here and listening to Loveless by My Bloody Valentine on repeat. It's comforting, and nice to actually just sit here and take in a great album without distractions.

As an INFP, I genuinely can’t stand intj. The superiority complex, the refusal to explore alternatives, the close-mindedness, the demeaning way they speak to you like they’re the smartest person alive and you’re lucky they’re even talking to you, etc…

Worst people ever. I have never had an interaction with an intj that didn’t end badly and I hope I never encounter one again.

Many of the best, open minded, intelligent people I know are entp. They are just fun and awesome, keep your mind stimulated, challenge you logically without the superiority complex or "talking down" that intj do, consider different perspectives, are not judgmental, make you laugh all day, etc…

I never got along with an intj despite that they’re one of our compatible types, but I seem to form a connection pretty easily with entps