Before we begin, let’s make an exaggerated analogy with our world. In a warrior society, a good-natured person who is a Buddhist (with good serotonin/dopamine production in his brain) would be diagnosed by warrior psychologists with “cowardice syndrome” and perhaps treated with liquor. Similarly, in a kindly harmonious Buddhist society, an aggressive warrior would be diagnosed with some form of antisocial disorder and treated with what the psychiatric monks deem appropriate.

In the descriptions of the Myers Briggs personality typology, the most adaptive and maladaptive characteristics of each type can be filtered. Assuming the type we’re looking at is acute (say an ESTP with each letter 60 or more), the so-called “positives” and “negatives” can be quickly drawn out. It then becomes intuitively logical to think that some types of MBTI are more likely to have some psychological “disorders” than others based on their default modes of being. All one has to do is match descriptions of psychiatric disorders with descriptions of MBTI types when they are not in their prime and can’t drive (say a low-income, low-educated, stressed-out INFP in a country where ESTJs are culturally dominant and expect everyone to be like them).

The reason I put psychological “disorders” in quotes is that, as hinted above, these maladaptive “conditions” seem to be (for the most part) physiological traits of different races of homo sapiens when brought to the neurotic breaking point by Social conditions. Negative psychology still dominates and only classifies conditions when they become more apparent and severe. Usually that involves a certain breed of human being at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale who is forced to seek help to keep functioning. The self-defeating nature of negative psychology (versus the emerging field of positive psychology) has been hurting for over a century.

In other words,

1) The dominant culture/socioeconomic system of a country is often closely related to some dominant Myers Briggs types (usually extroverted Ts)

2) Breeds that differ physiologically from the dominant breeds in the herd are forced to participate in a socio-economic system (directed by rulers) that is incompatible with them.

3) If the people who are incompatible with your system are wealthy and connected, they have more coping mechanisms to deal with stressors and avoid/decrease the activation of the “negative” neurotic qualities of your MBTI type.

4) Those breeds that are likely to seek help (and have their condition classified and codified as science) have the positive qualities of their MBTI type suppressed and the negative ones exaggerated by the neurosis that social stressors cause. They are likely to be from the poorer and less educated end of the proletarian class and therefore have more on their plates every day without being able to verbalize what ails them. Even if they belong to the arrogant faction of the proletariat that fancies itself to be “middle class,” they are likely to be misinformed about the fundamental structural nature of their neurosis and refer to so-called experts within the dominated field of negative psychology. by corporations.

5) All this is exacerbated when the economic pie shrinks instead of expanding (this means a reversal of industrialization instead of a constant material renewal of an industrialized country).

Let’s begin the journey of matching the Myers-Briggs breeds that are most likely to get a certain “disorder” rating for one of their more extreme members. As a baseline, the MBTI types to match are acute (60 or more on each letter). Some disorders may require only one function to be abnormally (statistically) high, such as 100 F. Thus, not all acute MBTI types would necessarily match the disorder descriptions, but those acute MBTI types within the already acute group of your brothers. This is an incomplete and imperfect list that will be updated as time goes on. It serves as a starting point for discussion.

Autistic spectrum

More likely among ISTPs: High detection function of near 100 seems key since the nerves leading to the eyeballs are thicker than in most people. Temple Grandin, an autistic woman, beautifully explained in her TED talk that she “thinks” in images rather than symbolically. She humorously mentions that the introverted scientists/inventors/technicians in the audience are probably borderline autistic in some cases and that helps them in their detailed specific work. High Introversion accounts for super low interpersonal communication skills and avoidance of energy-consuming social situations for autistics.

High T and unemotional explain the lack of close attachment to objects within the world during those rare moments when the autistic person decides to engage with the world (a flash of extroversion). High P contributes to action paralysis and supersensory overload. The brain is probably overclocked with video/audio inputs with no biological way to use the data nicely. The overall result is a person acting much like someone taking dissociative drugs (able to be closer to perfect robotic objective perception of the world without being clouded by emotion).

Mood Disorders: Depressive and Bipolar (First of all, for emotional roller coasters to happen, you need a super strong F-function (again, 90-100 range) to feel the extreme highs and lows as well as the extreme lows. Other functions determine the specific mood disorder at work).

Depression

More likely among ISFJs and ESFJs: Our current ENTJ/ENTP dominated society is very unfriendly to self-sacrificing SFJs. Rapid technological and cultural change, the atomization of society and the family by the free market, and dog eat dog interpersonal interactions are likely to have the greatest negative impact on SFJs. Their help isn’t rewarded, but ridiculed and duty-bound SFJs are less likely to kick back and enjoy themselves than their FP counterparts. The strong S makes them focus on their constant lack of affirmation from others in the here and now, while the J contributes to an inflexible and emotionally charged self-righteous system that the S constantly sees as violated. Strong J also anchors the person in a depressed melancholic mood with fewer interruptions into a happier, more elevated mode (see below).

Bipolar

More Likely Among ENFPs and ESFPs: Considering the extroverted manic phase of a bipolar person, high E appears to be a key contributor along with very high F. emotional plane for a strong J). The outgoing FP goes out into the world full of energy and inspiration but is brought down by the cynical social environment. Acute sensitivity to criticism and a strong P for seeing how such criticism is justified from many angles creates a severe emotional breakdown and withdrawal in the depressive phase. The constant emotional change adds to mental confusion and a feeling of lack of control. These are the people who love to party and are everywhere but face serious accidents when they come across an environmental obstacle. Extroversion should be maintained and not repressed in unhealthy ways.

ADHD

Most likely between ENFP, ESFP, ENTP and ESTP: the key seems to be a constant change of perceptual angles for a P over 60 and a strong extroversion that makes the person go out into the world and feel bored when that desire is thwarted. It also appears to be just a common childhood exploration phase of toddlers and children of most types of MBTI.

schizoid personality

More likely among ISTJ, INTJ, and possibly INTP: Schizoids are marked by social withdrawal, emotional coldness, and indifference to others. Seriously impaired social functioning, extreme loneliness, and grandiose views of extroversion. The above features are obviously caused by the same strong I and T as in the autistic, but schizoids are not totally overloaded with sensory overload. This allows them to be creative at times. Political Ponerology makes an interesting case that schizoids (because they spend so much time alone looking at the fast-moving world with often vengeful fantasies) write the literature and constructions that inspire clinical and subclinical psychopaths.

psychopathy

More likely among the ENTJs, the ENTPs: These are the natural predators of the human pack and they feast on it if they come to power rather than enhance it. The essentials are a high max T of 100 for clinical psychopaths and a T above 60 for subclinicals (the softer ones who have one foot in both the human world and the predator world and make natural politicians). This ensures that there is no emotional empathy for their fellow homo sapiens. They literally cannot feel what others are feeling and this makes most people seem irrational and weak to them. The closest thing they have to emotion (which they confuse the concept with) is sexual arousal and aggression. Strong E makes them go out into the world and socialize intensely with their prey, while strong N intuition allows them to quickly learn to imitate their prey (smile, know what emotional words to say, etc.).

There is debate in the literature as to whether psychopaths cluster on the J (left brain) or P (right brain) side or if it is nothing more than a continuum of psychopathy. Most likely, it is a continuum with different specialization of work among predators. They share all of the same characteristics, except that ENTJ is mindlessly goal driven regardless of human cost (the stalker) while ENTP is disorganized but more capable of emulating/getting along with different humans and creatively exploiting that ability (the con man). ). Their lack of emotional intelligence and desire for exploitative shortcuts makes them poor technocrats, blue-collar workers, and high-tech specialists. Subclinics could be headed in the right direction and become productive members of the community. They have additional “disorder” characterizations of hypomania and narcissism.

Schizotypal personality disorder

More likely between INTP and INFP: The key element seems to be a super high P which can create a flood of perceptual data creating a pseudo-hallucination effect. An N of 100 and a P of 100 can easily create conspiracy theories that don’t exist.

Borderline personality disorder

More likely among ESTPs: These very boring emotional people (high P and T) live on the edge and therefore make good soldiers or criminals. They don’t have the intuition to be psychopaths and they don’t interact with too many diverse people as often as they don’t get along. A super high E is key and makes them seek entertainment in the here and now (S) that would be overwhelming to most.

This ends the brainstorming session. Again, the article does not imply that each Myers Briggs type matches a group of descriptions that are labeled as a specific disorder. It implies that among the intense MBTI types, there is an even more intense minority within them whose behavior (if sufficiently stressed/guided by society) matches certain disorder descriptions more often than others. There are certainly overlaps that I didn’t mention along with some types that were excluded (for now) like ESTJ, INFJ, ISFP, and ENFJ. You can take a Myers Briggs test online (try to pick a good, detailed one) and see where you fall for yourself.

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