u/sadflameprincess

I'm in a rut. Have been depressed, trapped at home, can't spend too much money to go out right now, not many friends, and have been thinking too much about all my failures which kills my confidence and increases my self doubt. Like I've failed so much why would it be any different the next time.

Also, I need to start a project but am stuck in over analysis paralysis mode because there are too many ways to start the task but me being an intp need to choose the easiest one with the highest ROI. I know irrational. So now i'm procrastinating by analyzing them and feel like i'm going in circles. It's so much more difficult when I have no one to talk to or ask advice except reddit or online materials and have no external accountability.

What do you do to break of ti-si loop? please give advice. thank you.

Recently I've been feeling depressed and super annoyed by one inconvenience. My body. I didn't feel like showering, eating, going out, socializing but ofc I still did them. I started wondering why do I have to do all these things?

My conclusion: It's all for this body.

We go to work to make money to buy food and self-care necessities, pay our rent, we have to socialize to improve our mental health, have families to feel loved, procreate, we have religion to cope, have hobbies to feel and ease our boredom, create to improve quality of life, and so much more. Basically it all leads back to the goal of satisfying this garment of flesh and blood.

If we had no body we wouldn't need to do a thing.

We're slaves to our bodies.

To exist is to be a slave.

I started wondering if it's possible to exist without a body... perhaps we could upload our consciousness into a computer or something but then what would be the point of that? We'd feel no joy or have hopes and dreams - nothing. That's pointless. What if we encoded emotions into it? Then it would become a slave again. Its goals would be dictated by its emotions. If it suddenly felt sad then it would work to ease that feeling.

Slavery is inescapable.

Can we simply exist as mere awareness to be free from all the burdens of the body?

Is it normal to think this way or unhealthy in general?

Anyway, no I'm not su1c1dal or anything haha. I just had some random thoughts and would like to hear your thoughts or some new perspectives.

Hi INFP/ISFP,

I come here to seek advice. I moved back home with my family temporarily. A new addition to the family is my brother's girlfriend who lives here too now. My brother's in jail now so it's just her and my niece at the house now.

I noticed she literally stays in her room 24/7 and only comes out to go to work or feed her baby. It's literally like a rare sighting when I see her. It's like seeing bigfoot during an eclipse haha. Not that she looks like bigfoot.

Anyway, I tried to be her friend and make conversation with her many times so she doesn't feel lonely or depressed but for someone reason she doesn't talk back - just politely laughs or smiles then leaves. I even sent her a funny reel just so she could feel more comfortable with me and loosen up a bit but she left me on seen haha. I got the impression that it bothered her and she just wants to be left alone and hide from the world or something.

She doesn't even ask me how my day's going in return when I initially ask her about hers nor does she greet anyone. My family say she's like that and just keeps to herself.

I don't know what her exact type is but based on our few conversations and my observations of her behavior she's either an ISFP or INFP.

Is this unhealthy Fi or something? What might be going on with her? I just want to make sure she's okay and isn't suffering from severe depression or something and I'm also concerned for my niece to be honest.

Do you recognize this behavior in yourself too? If so can you please provide feedback on how to reach out to her and let her know she's not alone. I've verbally said it many times but she doesn't seem to really register it.