The Champion is usually a bundle of energy, but they can become exhausted if they are overloaded with work. They also will experience stress if their values and principles are violated and they see others in the company being hurt by policies that kill the human spirit. Then they become hypersensitive to what is going on around them. Facts become exaggerated. They have feelings of paranoia and may withdraw. To regain their equilibrium, meditation will help. Kindness and support by others, but not patronization, will help them get back to normal. Says Gloria, “I’d given a number of years of support to one boss, then he started bad-mouthing me. It threw me into a turmoil. I became suspicious of him and everyone else. Then a friend said that the boss was blowing up at everyone, not just me, and encouraged me to look at a position in a new section. I meditated to become centered again, then applied for the job. I love my new job and now life is great again. My old boss retired; he was drinking too much.”
Sounds like me to the tee. It happened not too long ago. There was a shift of power in our division. We went from being led by an NF to being led by an NT. And this one one cold-hearted NT. The NF was very light, warm, friendly, just as long as you do your work, it's all good, talk, play, have fun at work. The NT was the complete opposite. If you're talking, you don't have enough work, very strict, very sneaky, seemed as though she tried to find ways to get us in trouble. I'm a lot lower down in the chain of command, so it didn't directly affect me as much as it did my superiors, including my INFP supervisor. That's how it began to affect me. Only thing is, I didn't withdraw very much. I became rebellious if this NT asked me to do something. I'd happily do it if it was assigned to me by my INFP supervisor, but not the NT. I tried to get my other co-workers to go along with me on this, but they wouldn't. The SJ's just take it and do it. They don't rebel much, I've noticed. My other ENFP friend that I work with rebelled right along with me, but it wasn't as obvious because he doesn't work as closely with her as I do. So it made me wonder if rebelling against the type of "leadership" she displayed is an ENFP trait.
Anywho, after the NT was gone and was replaced (not sure what temperament...he's only been here for 2 weeks), I learned from someone who worked quite closely with her (he is an SJ) that she actually liked me? What? She liked the fact that I didn't take her BS? Really? UGH. That was NOT my intent. I wanted to piss her off, not please her. Haha.
But yeah, facts did become exaggerated. Yes to feelings of paranoia and a little to the withdrawing. I did withdraw, but I withdrew from those I cared about and put all my energy and effort into observing how they were feeling, how it was affecting them, trying to understand how they're taking it, and then put the rest of my energy into trying to aggravate that NT. What helped me get back to normal was the shift of power to this new leader that's much more calm, laid back. He reminds me a lot of the NF we once had. Everyone's gone back to normal. (:
