Hiding booze is basically the biggest red flag for alcoholism that I can think of. This has nothing to do with being IEI; she needs help.
Hiding booze is basically the biggest red flag for alcoholism that I can think of. This has nothing to do with being IEI; she needs help.
But, for a certainty, back then,
We loved so many, yet hated so much,
We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...
Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
Whilst our laughter echoed,
Under cerulean skies...
thanks sigma...you are on track with what i am looking for here. why would infp choose this way? this way of slowing making something die? what motivates that?In my view, IEIs are able to navigate, to adapt to every situation and this gives them a silly approach sometimes. She might be thinking that she can handle alcohol, she can control it... and this is not possible because it has a biological component that is too important.
My father died this summer due to complication in a liver cancer induced by too much alcohol. I know how bad it can be.
yes. i am sorry about your dad. that's no way to die. i have been in recovery for 19 years now...i know how i was when i was drinking...horrible to put other people through it.
The way I view IEIs handling a crisis is by dying. She needs to die for herself and be reborn for some greater thing. Giving is such a pleasant experience for an IEI that if you can get her having few conscious giving sessions, you might hook her on it.
Think about spiraling... right not she is spiraling down: isolation, depression, anesthesia via alcohol, isolation, depression, etc.
you are on to something here. not sure about the giving part but i think she is trying to make something die. i would say she has been a giving person all along...i am not sure this would jolt her out of anything... but perhaps the right person at the right time could make a difference.
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ok so... hmmmm....This is a great question, we should put her life under the microscope and examine it.....
I'll use Enneagram/Socionics/Kiersey/Temperment and typical crap
Answer these questions.....
1) Can you give a description of her behavior/personality in non-technical terms
i do not know her that well...only well enough to deduce her type. she is my ex husband's current wife.
2) What do you know about the current events of her life
she got married to him two months ago. after 3 years of drama with my ex. started drinking last xmas when her brother came to town and took her out.
3) What do you know about her youth
she is the pampered youngest of older parents. 3 older brothers one of whom hated her for being the favorite.
4) What enneagram type is she
prolly a 4.
5) What Socionics type is she
IEI for sure.
6) What Kiersey Temperment is she (Guardian/Rational/Idealist/Artisan)
idealist
7) Is there any guesses as to what triggered the drinking
it is said that she is jealous of the attention my ex husband would give to our children.
8) How do you know her, what is your relationship with her
my relationship with her has become cordial...but it took a long time to get to that.
Attempt each of these question and I'll give you my synopisis/analysis of the situation
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as she is a mental health professional herself, and from what i understand, she was quite skilled at getting out of such help in the psych e/r. you are right quite clearly she has a problem.....though i wonder in general terms how infp looks at alcohol. what do you think?Hiding booze is basically the biggest red flag for alcoholism that I can think of. This has nothing to do with being IEI; she needs help.
Wow. Not everything is type related. Socionics does not explains the reasons for every person's actions, I'm sorry.
i realize that. i am looking for the socionics explanation alongside all the other explanations which are likely much more salient. what do you think is important about a socionics explanation?
why do you think that morcheeba? are you saying that different types are attracted to different substances? interesting.....I can't stand alcohol, I prefer drugs, but I would imagine my dual would like alcohol, just a guess.
wow this sounds pretty compelling...can you say a little more?Personally, I do like to use smallish amounts of alcohol for fun and forgetting my problems temporarily but every day? uh, no. She sounds depressed? I think IEIs can go off the deep end if they've been repressing feelings over time and they can't tolerate hiding it anymore, so it comes out in these sorts of desperate actions. (just a guess)
gotta love krae...snap you're right there dudeDuality
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Duality... hmph. well I have no sympathy for her there, given that she IS with her dual.
IEI-Fe 4w3
yes. and my kids are suffering. they thought she cared.
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She probably still cares. Alcoholism is a major bitch.
Your ex left her??
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin
hey kim yeah he left her. she'd been going on drinking binges ever since last christmas. they just got married over labor day, too. he moved out this week, found an apartment, and the kids helped him move stuff on veterans day. done deal from what i can tell.
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Given what you've put here, I think the most likely explanation of this all comes down to the following....
I think shes probably reverting to alcoholism to deal with the stress of her newfound responsibility as a mother.... maybe initially she like the idea of marrying some guy and having kids but I know that in reality it requires a ton of work and she probably feels a little confined in her circumstances, so she escapes by alcoholism.
This is more likely since she is enneagram 4, if she was an 8 -- I would be inclined to say she does it because she doesn't know how to limit herself and has a personality which is lustful and easyily addicted to self-medicating behavior. However she is a 4 and therefore I find it more likely that she is using alcohol as a form of escapism, in light of the fact of her newfound motherhood likely being the most obvious and significant recent change in her life its probably a reaction to this.
The thing is, if this IEI is past their 20's I'd think this wasn't the first time they've had problems with this, its probably a sore topic for her and probably something she feels drawn into to reconnect with her emotions and have release from the stress surrounding her "trapped in" life. My guess is if you were to dig deep, you'de probably discover incidences of her use of alcohol in her past. Thats why I asked about her past, because it may reveal what her triggers are for going to alcohol.
I think that enneagram type 4's have this prevalent theme of wanting to attract a rescuer.... it comes from their over identification with their own problems through intense idenitifcation with their emotions and moods, they desire another person to help them through these. This is why I think putting more indirect pressure on her and hoping it will make her quit will only drive her alcoholism deeper, she needs intervention I personally think, it will show people care and it will force her to quit, it may be helpful to figure out if this is her first problem with it, if she is a 4 and an IEI with dominant its likely she'll be vary aware of the big picture on a large time scale of her life and her behavior and I can imagine that if this were the case its probably a major failing she has.
It sucks this is your ex-husbands wife and your kids are being exposed to this, it will paint your intentions as possibly being jealous and may bring up old drama I'd imagine. I think if you approach the situation from the standpoint of your kids and the fact alcoholism isn't healthy for anyone and just go with it, people may misperceive your motives at first, but on enough following through will realize your true intent.
I think sigma gives good advice on what she herself will need to do to overcome it.
thanks for your thoughts everybody. i can't really help this woman it's totally not my place. i hate to say it but i don't really want to either since the law of karma applies. my kids are safe since my ex left. i am sure he will start to experience the reality of single fatherhood, which he knows nothing about since she has been helping him since we broke up.
so if anything i am concerned about his stress level and mental state. even though the law of karma applies here too. and about how his state might then affect the kids.
i'm saying concerned but that just translates into watching things closely which i do anyway. things will be fine because i'll just handle it. my relationship with my kids is quite strong (they are incidentally also both alphas).
infpman says their web of lies became too much of a burden to bear. a relationship built on a foundation of lies is no good. i imagine he could be right. i don't think infp would do well in those conditions, nor anybody really.
i told my ex this or something like it would happen 3 1/2 years ago. sometimes i hate it when i can see so clearly yet can do nothing to change anything. what good is intuition when you can't convince anybody?
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When we do something is seldom a true "choice". In order to choose you have to be at least partially awake. And we are not awake.
Most of the time we are the slaves of our habits. She just has bad habits, bad masters.
Trying to run away from something is quite ineffective. In order to have at least partial success you have to run away towards something else. And this involves change, choice, different thinking habits. This is very hard.
She might be trying to kill something (run away from something) and by doing this... she might give it even more force. This is why I spoke about the other spiral. About choosing to do something else.... even it at first she might need assistance in doing this.
"What is love?"
"The total absence of fear," said the Master.
"What is it we fear?"
"Love," said the Master.
I chose Love