Quote Originally Posted by Joy View Post
I think ESxj's don't get sick as much (or as badly) as others, or that they can handle their symptoms, because they eat when they're hungry, stop when they're full, sleep when they're tired, avoid food that makes them feel like shit (fast food, etc.), know when it's something that should be seen by a doctor, do their stretches every day if that's what it takes to feel good, maintain a reasonable balance between being active and resting, etc.
Well my wife, ESFj they say, is not too much like that. She can get sick, she often forgets to eat when she is too busy with other stuff, she sleeps too little, overall is being "too" active and rests too little, never stretches. Actually I push her to eat better, sleep better, do more physical training and stretch more. It is just almost impossible to make her do that without consistent pushing. Which I generally do but it gets tiresome after years...

The parts that fit is that she always stops eating before she is "full" i.e. has a very good sense of when she has eaten enough (unlike me, who has to calculate what is enough in order to avoid overeating). Also she never eats things which she doesn't really like. She is kind of picky about the quality of food. Unlike me who can eat whatever in order to get the needed nutritions.

About the doctor...hard to say. I go to doctor way more often than she does but perhaps it is because I cannot evaluate properly when I should go and when not. It is kind of hard to get her to go to doctor because she believes she knows very well when she needs to (which is like...never)

So either my wife is not ESFj / ESxj or that stereotype doesn't hold too well.