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What is INFJ burnout?
INFJ burnout is when, even if it is something that you are passionate about and love to do, you feel like you are going through the motions and aren’t doing what your soul called you to do and you feel empty. A little pep talk from someone who knows us well can usually wake us up and put us back on the right track.
Are INFJs prone to burnout?
INFJs tend to put themselves last on their priority list. INFJs aren’t the only personality type to suffer from emotional burnout and exhaustion, but it’s a common problem that almost all INFJs experience at some point in their lives. That’s because we have several personality traits that make us prone to it.
How do you prevent INFJ burnout?
So here are a few ways to prevent INFJ compassion fatigue and empathy burnout.
- Separate compassion and empathy with the act of helping others.
- Know what’s your responsibilities and what’s not.
- Don’t let external harmony dictates your inner peace.
- Maintain some space between you and the person you are helping.
Can Infj lose empathy?
It’s so important an INFJ have time alone to let their truth reach the surface, otherwise they may get lost in feeling others emotions their entire lives, unable to differentiate them from their own. So in short, the INFJ does not experience empathy by definition, but sympathy.
Do INFJs have an empathy burnout?
Other INFJs can have an empathy burnout too when they absorb their friends or family’s emotions or care too much for others in an unhealthy way. that we feel too drained to help the other. Instead of feeling compassion towards others, we become apathetic, numb, and indifferent to other people’s sufferings.
How to recover from compassion burnout as an INFJ?
No matter how much passion you have for your job, if your ideas can’t be actualized, it won’t feel satisfying for an INFJ because it wouldn’t be deemed meaningful to our Ni function. To recover from compassion burnout, you can stop, you can slow down, you can withdraw, you can find support, you can practice more self-care, and etc.
Do INFJs get compassion fatigue easily?
INFJs get compassion fatigue easily because somehow we think that: We can help the other person. So we tried to do a lot for the other person, spending a lot of time and energy on their problems. Then]