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Disturbed
Interesting. I have known some EIE who seemed to have had bipolar disorder, but EIE aren't heavy believers in diagnoses and they may be more likely to hide it for their self-image. It does seem like LSI of both subtypes can be quite reactive, and I know of several who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder (as I have been whatever my type, but it's due to the medicines that weren't really necessary). I think a lot of my own aggression was due to dyspraxia and sensitivity to loud noises and of course negative emotions. I'm super clumsy (my movements are impulsive) and I've read that people with dyspraxia can have severe emotional problems (also, something that's intriguing is that despite LSI-Se and IEE being conflictors, both types seem more prone to dyspraxia than average, I'm not sure why, but it's also correlated with autism spectrum disorders and LSI have autism at a higher rate while many other LSI also pretty decent social skills; I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, but it didn't fit perfectly.)
It did seem like there were no Gamma quadra and Delta quadra students in my emotionally disturbed classes and I saw a lot of people in them (those classes had, all sorts of fighting, disruption, truancy, provoking, emotional expression, people drawing/doing artwork during class, farting, loudly complaining about farting, need for and adherence to systems, etc., etc... they were quite Beta quadra environments; there was one ILE-Ti, but he was head strong about not having to be in special ed classes so he got out by the time he finished middle school.. people have always thought I was crazy and I wasn't always treated like the smart person I wanted to be treated as; the IEE I know are actually quite normal and traditional and if there was someone they really couldn't get along with they'd just leave the group and associate with people who shared their views, more likely to do that than EIE who were quite firmly in the place they were in and wouldn't leave; it was usually EIE and SLE doing crazy, unusual, disruptive things, and expressing their anger but not that craziness is bad, I was relatively well-behaved in school, especially in late middle school and high school, even better than my friends who were never enrolled in emotionally disturbed classes.) There is some continuity from receiving special ed services from K-12 to having mental health services as an adult, so that has to do with why there are predominantly Beta quadra members in both (IEE, even if Bipolar, usually get out pretty quickly, they move on to other interests or they don't do anything risky.)
Still, I enjoyed the Beta quadra environments, whether emotionally disturbed classes or in psychiatric wards and really I still enjoy going to most (but not all) psychiatric wards for a while; the staff in both were mostly Beta quadra members with a few Alpha and Gamma subtyped towards Beta (the only Delta people I know of who were employed at psychiatric wards were just two LSE and they didn't seem to understand anything) which meant that they were more likely to be physically beautiful than average (just like police officers are mostly Beta quadra members and more attractive than the average person). I don't think Delta NFs would generally enjoy working as psychiatric nurses and the rudeness from the patients and they're not supposed to be good with authoritarian systems plus they have too much emotional empathy anyway.