Dealing With Stress From Work

[kipparent]

How do you deal with work-related stress? Each personality type has different stressors and copes in different ways. Better understanding of your own stressors and coping mechanisms can help you reduce the tension and anxiety work stress often creates.

When stressed, Guardians usually report being sick, tired, sad, or worried.

Since Artisans are usually optimistic and like taking risks, it takes a lot to get them stressed. But if they become severely stressed, Artisans can act out against others or themselves.

Idealists tend to work for a better future for all, so if things keep going badly and they lose hope, they become stressed. When Idealists experience great stress, they can have muscle or sensory problems.

Rationals search for knowledge, competence, and eternal truths. If these needs are blocked, they become stressed. When Rationals experience great stress, they experience thoughts that tell them either that they must act or think in a particular way or that they must not act or think in a particular way. The outside observer sees the Rational as driven by compulsions or prohibitions.

Here are links to articles on each of the temperaments, and how each of the types experiences, and is able to deal with, work-related stress.

Guardians: Bearing Up

Artisans: Acting Out

Idealists: Out of Balance

Rationals: Appearing Compulsive

[Perseus]

Hello,

I find Providors (ESFJ) start from a rather fixed rigid position and they simply get totally spooked by alternative views (ENTP). There logical conclusions from their rigid position appear twisted for their own selfish ends. They behave like a Control Freak.

Rationals (NT) clash with the Irrationals (SF). It is a power struggle.

Phoenix XNXP from Neptune
http://soredragon.blogspot.com/

[Perseus]

Hello,

I find that the Field Marshall (ENTJ) does not really have any visionary ideas at all, but just steals ideas and concepts of other people (maybe from multiple sources) so I am not about to give him respect for his dogmatism, which often extends to outright bullying (ESTJ) and deserves to be hated and I will walk away from any of these sadists.

These types seem to have the greatest power to cause the most harm (even to drive people to sucide). They should slow down and remember that their dogma is just an illusion.

They have the Providor ascertained to a tee and will tie them up with knots. However, they seem unable to tell the difference between a Horseman (ESFJ) and an Architect (INTP) under the inferior function (fourth process).

PS: Do not forget about the deputy (INTJ).

Andy
http://soredragon.blogspot.com/
There's a Hole in Reality through which We Can Look if We Wish

[The Grey Badger]

Hello,

I find Providors (ESFJ) start from a rather fixed rigid position and they simply get totally spooked by alternative views (ENTP). There logical conclusions from their rigid position appear twisted for their own selfish ends. They behave like a Control Freak.

Rationals (NT) clash with the Irrationals (SF). It is a power struggle.

Phoenix XNXP from Neptune
http://soredragon.blogspot.com/

Hank and Lillian Rearden from Atlas Shrugged, absolutely classic. Also Jim and Dagny Taggart, though Jim is badly marred by his Guardian view of what should be - that as the oldest son and head of the firm, this, that, and the other this should and must be so and never mind that he's an idiot. No wonder both couples ended up changing partners; they were both not only seriously mismatched, but Hank never took the time to understand Lillian or had any use for the one thing she was good at. (ESFJ. Totally).

[Perseus]

PS: The description of the Architects response to strong emotion is simply WRONG! I have no intention of explaining things to Field Marshalls who are not equipped to understand very well* They are reading from text written by an INTJ. Slow down and stop causing so much grief!

Suffice with a hint that the INTP faced with strong emotion may (or can) react (morph-shift) ENTP with the primary reaction of Extraverted Intuition so the setting is important.

*Critical Parent, Shadow process.

[The Grey Badger]

If it's nonproductive strong emotion such as quarreling bitterly for its own sake, this Rational flees and hides out either with a book, or by falling asleep. Confronted with someone whose incessant style it is, I use the ancient martial art of Nike-do. Tie up the running shoes and get out of there.

[Perseus]

If it's nonproductive strong emotion such as quarreling bitterly for its own sake, this Rational flees and hides out either with a book, or by falling asleep. Confronted with someone whose incessant style it is, I use the ancient martial art of Nike-do. Tie up the running shoes and get out of there.

Natural reaction to the Bully (ESTJ) or Sadist (ENTJ).

Intuition probably leads. I am not sure where the Badger lives ? Sitting Bull was Jumping Badger.

The Dragon (INFP) retreats to his Barrow. But he is an ever present threat to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guards_Guards as he can fly out any time.

Marzipan Dragon gets eaten at the Watering Holes.

http://soredragon.blogspot.com/2008/06/sore-dragon.html

[The Grey Badger]

I live in Albuquerque and like to say I am a freedwoman twice over: divorced in 1990 and retired in 2003.

[Perseus]

I live in Albuquerque and like to say I am a freedwoman twice over: divorced in 1990 and retired in 2003.

Albuquerque seems exotic from England

Shoreham-by-Sea (West Sussex, England, UK)
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Shoreham.html

[Goodrum]

West Sussex is beautiful, I have been to Chichester and Arundel....the countryside is so picturesque, like a dream for a desert dwelling Australian. Some of my ancestors came from Dorking.
Nice info page, I'm sorry I missed Shoreham-by-Sea now.