Neurosis Characteristics and Types
The different types of neurosis are defined by the different psychological types that characterize human beings. There are four psychological types, but they become eight because we have four introverted types and four extroverted types that use the same psychological functions in different ways. The four psychological functions that define the four basic psychological types are based on:
1- Thoughts
2- Feelings
3- Sensations
4- Intuition
Depending on which of these four psychological functions is the basic one in your psyche, your behavior will adopt a series of pre-determined attitudes in life. This means that what you choose to do or what you do without controlling yourself is already pre-programmed. You may believe that you are unique and your characteristics can be found only within you, but the truth is that besides your undoubted uniqueness (only because your particular combination of characteristics is unique even if the characteristics of your personality are found in all personalities) your behavior is determined by your psychological type. In other words, the details of your life may differ from the details of someone else’s life that belongs to the same psychological type as you, but in the end both of you will do exactly the same things.
Why? Because you follow exactly the same path to find solutions for your problems. This path is pre-established by the psychological function that is the most active in your psyche. So, when you become neurotic, your personality acquires different characteristics, that don’t belong to your psychological type. If you are a rational psychological type, you suddenly become a slave to your feelings when you meet a person that has the characteristics that most attract your psychological type. Your rationalism cannot help you.
However, it can bother you, and this is exactly what it does. If you are an introverted psychological type based on thoughts, your rationalism is going to impede your feelings to have the chance to appear on the surface of your conscience. A real war will begin inside you. Your wild feelings that never had the chance to appear in your behaviour, want to invade your human conscience and provoke an explosion. On the other hand, your cruel rationalism wants to kill your feelings and this is why it starts sending you various absurd ideas. It tells you for example, that the person you love is too poor, that you have better plans in life, that you must be proud of yourself and never let the other person understand that you are in love with them and other ideas like these, which can only discourage and mislead you.
If you follow the suggestions of your basic psychological function, you become neurotic because you don’t let your feelings live and give you what you need from them.
If you follow the impulsive desires imposed by your wild feelings, you become neurotic when you realize that you cannot control your behavior, since you start doing things that are totally opposite to what you usually do and you cannot stop doing them. Your thoughts lose their power. If you are an extroverted psychological type based on intuitions, you are going to spend all your energy pursuing new opportunities, instead of developing the ones you have already found. You may end up without money, simply because when you find the best opportunities, you never make them grow. If you are an introverted psychological type based on sensations, your world will be comprehensible only to you. You are always distant from the objective reality, creating your own world over the existing one, which you never examine for what it actually is.
What happens when you become neurotic? The psychological function that is opposite to the basic psychological function of your psyche invades your human conscience, even though it is wild, because it never had the chance to be examined by the human conscience and tamed by its consciousness. This is why the different types and characteristics of neurosis depend on the different psychological types and the characteristics of the psychological functions that don’t belong to the known conscience. If you want to stay far away from neurosis and worse mental illnesses, you must prevent craziness while you still can, because once the process of destruction of your human conscience by the wild side of your conscience is too advanced, it cannot be interrupted.
-Christina Sponia
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