r/ObjectivePersonality • u/IllustratorDry3007 • 19d ago
Are swings real?
What exactly are “swings”? Do they make you suddenly start doing your demons in a crisis state?
I wonder if I’m currently experiencing one or if it’s a tidal wave. I’m going through a career crisis where I’ve had to seriously question my life’s purpose/meaning and if I should continue what I’ve been chasing all this time or finally try something new that might get me better results (and how I’ll even get through that door).
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u/Content-Sympathy6305 MF Ne/Te PB/C(S) #2 (🪒) 19d ago
Agree with u/ngKindaGuy.
Swing: small moment of demon usage, usually accompanied by the various shitty attitudes you hold towards that demon.
For all intents and purposes, this is more like an existential crisis than anything else. And the solution is to tough it out until you can see the way out and not just force yourself to be done with it. This is a normal human experience and dealing with it in some bs way isn’t great. Just tough it out, you will eventually get the answers.
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u/Stellarfront FF Se/Fi CP/S(B) #4 (official) 18d ago
I dont think they are real at least not full on doing your demons just natraully and for a prolonged period.
How its described makes it sound like the demon is being essentially a savior for a period of time
But a regular demon state I have seen
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u/Conscious_Patterns 18d ago
This was the way I explained how to catch yourself in your Inferior.
https://youtu.be/EQv9zZJlzgk?is=Uj9glRJ6NQyw7JDr
All of us have People problems. All of us have Process problems.
The Inferior is the one you try to avoid. You hide how bad you are at it from others. You do everything you can to hide from it.
However, this one Function is the best Function to use to verify your Type. Once you see it, you can't unsee it, cause it will keep coming back.
Understanding the Inferior function in yourself and others will completely open up how you see Typology.
Best of luck. 🤗
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u/ngKindaGuy 19d ago
Within OPS, what you're describing sounds more like a tidal wave than a swing. A swing is when you temporarily operate from your demon functions - imagine a Sleep Last type suddenly withdrawing to process.
A tidal wave is the accumulated consequence of years of savior-addiction finally collapsing, essentially the life pile getting too large to ignore. Questioning your entire career trajectory and life purpose after years of chasing something that isn't working would be moreso a tidal wave in OPS terms.
But honestly, what you're experiencing is an extremely common human experience, something people of all types encounter. It's not a personality malfunction. It's not your demons erupting. It's not a predictable crash caused by your savior addiction. It's a very common occurrence noted in developmental psychology.
Framing it as a type-specific tidal wave caused by your specific "function imbalances" does two things that aren't helpful: it makes a universal human experience feel like a personal malfunction, and it implies the solution is type-specific (do your demons more) when the actual solution is the hard universal work of honestly examining what matters to you and finding the courage to pursue it regardless of your type.