Thank you for the article, but it seems to me that some of the "unhealthy" categories that you listed aren't signs of being "unhealthy" but rather simply a state of being. Here are the items that seem to fall into that category.
Has a fear of conflict: You listed that IPs have a tendency to share this trait. To me that's a trait of being an IP. It seems to hold up Je (preference for an extraverted judging function) users as what is acceptable, labeling Ji users as unacceptable.
Becomes very overwhelmed: Again, this appears to take a trait (especially of those Introverts who are also HSP--Highly Sensitive People) and label it as something unacceptable rather than a trait.
One of the greatest benefits I have gained from studying MBTI is the appreciation for how personalities differ and that those differences are simply that: differences. One person has one set of strengths. Another person has a different set. We may value certain strengths more highly in given contexts, but a comparative weakness that a person may have doesn't make it necessarily worthy of the label "unhealthy". It simply means that that person would have a comparatively more difficult time in some regards compared to a person strong in those regards. One person may be able to lift effortlessly 100 lbs/45 kg, while another may struggle with it. The one isn't necessarily more healthy than the other. The one is simply more gifted with physical strength than the other. Introverts aren't Extraverts. Expecting them to be Extraverts (or act as though they are) isn't fair, isn't allowing them to be authentic, is itself an unhealthy and unrealistic expectation, and can do harm (to both the one labeling as well as the one being labeled) when the label of "unhealthy" is applied to it.
[By the way I identify with INFP as my best-fit type.]
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Thank you for the article, but it seems to me that some of the "unhealthy" categories that you listed aren't signs of being "unhealthy" but rather simply a state of being. Here are the items that seem to fall into that category.
One of the greatest benefits I have gained from studying MBTI is the appreciation for how personalities differ and that those differences are simply that: differences. One person has one set of strengths. Another person has a different set. We may value certain strengths more highly in given contexts, but a comparative weakness that a person may have doesn't make it necessarily worthy of the label "unhealthy". It simply means that that person would have a comparatively more difficult time in some regards compared to a person strong in those regards. One person may be able to lift effortlessly 100 lbs/45 kg, while another may struggle with it. The one isn't necessarily more healthy than the other. The one is simply more gifted with physical strength than the other. Introverts aren't Extraverts. Expecting them to be Extraverts (or act as though they are) isn't fair, isn't allowing them to be authentic, is itself an unhealthy and unrealistic expectation, and can do harm (to both the one labeling as well as the one being labeled) when the label of "unhealthy" is applied to it.
[By the way I identify with INFP as my best-fit type.]