Dealing with INFJ Emotional Overwhelm

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Dealing with INFJ emotional overwhelm is one of the biggest problems INFJ personality types struggle with on a daily basis. One way an INFJ personality type deals with emotional overwhelm is through avoidance, and many of us don’t even know that we’re doing it or how much it’s holding us back. Avoidance in INFJ personality types may show up as social anxiety, procrastination, perfectionism, shyness, and/or denial about things that need to change in our life. One of the reasons we have such strong avoidant tendencies is because we get emotionally overwhelmed. Almost every INFJ is also a Highly Sensitive Person, and this high sensitivity extends to our emotional system as well. We are hurt easily by criticism and dragged down quickly by pessimism or any other kind of excessive negativity. We are also hyper-aware of the tone of voice and moods of others, so if we feel like someone is judging us or doesn’t understand our point of view, it can quickly send us into a tailspin of INFJ anxiety and even INFJ depression. All of these things can cause us to experience an emotional storm within ourselves. These storms are hard to weather and so, as a way to protect ourselves, most INFJ personality types avoid anything that might cause one of these storms within us. However, there is a way to deal with emotional overwhelm for INFJs that doesn’t feed into our unhelpful avoidant tendencies. I talk about this more in this video on dealing with INFJ emotional overwhelm.

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