> Identification can be a strongly limiting and a destructive power.
This cannot be emphasized enough. Sometimes identifying mental characteristics/behaviors can be very important (for instance, depression) in that it allows you to start examining it and trying to correct it, or build a career or social life that takes account of it. But many people latch onto non-disorder labels (like introversion) and use it to justify all their behavior ("I don't want to go out on Friday night because I'm an introvert." - spoken by many of my friends, even when going out just meant a night in playing board games that they originally suggested).
This isn't true of all introverts, but many self-identified introverts that I've met the last several years exhibit behavior more in common with burnout and depression. They hold the dual views of wanting to do things with people (their friends at least) but refusing to go out because it means dealing with people (often those same friends). At some point, like I did, you have to figure out a healthy way to deal with your desire to have quiet time/alone time/whatever time in a way that doesn't frustrate the people you want in your life to the point that they end up leaving you behind. Or you need to find friends that you actually find yourself desiring more time with.
This cannot be emphasized enough. Sometimes identifying mental characteristics/behaviors can be very important (for instance, depression) in that it allows you to start examining it and trying to correct it, or build a career or social life that takes account of it. But many people latch onto non-disorder labels (like introversion) and use it to justify all their behavior ("I don't want to go out on Friday night because I'm an introvert." - spoken by many of my friends, even when going out just meant a night in playing board games that they originally suggested).
This isn't true of all introverts, but many self-identified introverts that I've met the last several years exhibit behavior more in common with burnout and depression. They hold the dual views of wanting to do things with people (their friends at least) but refusing to go out because it means dealing with people (often those same friends). At some point, like I did, you have to figure out a healthy way to deal with your desire to have quiet time/alone time/whatever time in a way that doesn't frustrate the people you want in your life to the point that they end up leaving you behind. Or you need to find friends that you actually find yourself desiring more time with.