Podcast - Episode 0268 - Mental Health Story And INTP Personality (With Christian Rivera)

In this podcast you’ll find:

• Christian Rivera – Dopamine Podcast
• C-Note
• Multimedia designer and creative consultant
• Christian is an INTP
• Dad = ESFJ
• Mom = ISFP
• Grew up in Philadelphia
• Dad pushed him out of his introverted world
• At 11, he realized that he was experiencing extreme highs and lows
• He realized he had a high functioning bipolar disorder known as Cyclothymia
• He birthed his podcast to express his ideas and talk about his experiences with mental health
• Went through a divorce in 2017
• He felt he was the problem.
• He wasn’t gelling with society and didn’t think he could fit in anywhere.
• Used his INTP superpowers to understand typology and disseminate what an INTP was.
• All of 2018 he spent exploring his entire life raised in a sensor feeler society as an INTP
• What is intuition?
• What am I learning as a person?
• What am I capable of as a Thinker?
• What am I capable of as an Intuitive?
• What does society think I am?
• What did my parents think I was?
• What did my romantic partners think I was?
• He does Uber to get to know his city and people
• PTSD after a relationship ends may be common for INTs
• Learning nuances of emotions has helped with his Extraverted Feeling
• Religion-based trauma and mental abuse
• Every time he would talk to someone about how he felt about something he was shut down, so he stopped trusting his Introverted Thinking
• Gas Lighting
• The thing Introverted Thinkers give to the world may always be perceived as an assault unless the Ti user finds a way to convey their compassion and good intent first.
• “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
• “This is my intent. This is what I am trying to say.”
• Be thorough with what your intentions are.
• Don’t treat your emotions as a foreign thing. Emotions are important data.
• Introverted Feeling can hold a lot of space for emotions.
• Introverted Thinking can hold a lot of space for thoughts.
• You have to get to the thought process before you can reprogram it.
• Thinkers, in general, may feel emotions are messy.
• INTPs feel like they have ADD/ADHD/Aspergers because they don’t emote the same way as other people
• People want to know the crossover between mental health diagnoses and personality type.
• Christian relates some of his Extraverted Intuition to his hyper mania
• Depression is the inability to access positive feelings
• Mania has all the positive feelings but avoids challenging ones.
• It is natural when developing Extraverted Intuition to want to go out and party
• It can lead you down a bad path which can hurt your mental health more than it helps.
• Be aware of your triggers
• Listen to yourself when you’re in the middle of an experience.
• An introvert can drown out sensory info by endless talking
• Extraverted Intuition can get overly consumed with doing it all and forget personal safety and health
• Liquid courage to ease connection
• It takes awhile to understand the dichotomous nature of Myers-Briggs.
• Figuring out the balance is important.
• Personal development is work
• Keep your finger on the pulse of your personal growth and recognize when you need to ask for help
• Stop to process. Don’t stay in perpetual motion.
• Refortify your boundaries to make sure relationships are working better.
• You have to put on the shell sometimes to break out of it.
• Extraverted Intuition can give you a ton of info, but then you need to introvert to understand what it means.
• INTX Unleashed
• Personality Hacker book
• Dopamine.life podcast
• https://cnote.thinkific.com/
• Twitter
• Vulnerability is a strength