Inert Empathizing / R + F

Contact Systemizing / P + L

Description

Persistence of negative emotions, difficulty in managing emotional reactions, and the inability to effectively regulate emotional states. Challenges easily moving on from negative thoughts, feelings, and memories, leading to prolonged emotional states.

Sensitivity to moral issues, with tendency toward self-criticism and self-directed negativity.

Emotional arousal is difficult to control by the mind.

Affective Viscosity.

Accumulation of problems along Empathizing functions. Instrumental problem-solving along Systemizing.

Spectrum Clusters

The characteristic factors

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Frequent episodes or persistent background of low mood

2
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Fixation on negative experiences

3
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Restless sleep with frequent dreams and awakenings

4
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Uncontrolled, easily triggered emotional excitability

5
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Inability to flexibly manage emotions in social interaction

6
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Subjective sensation of richness of heard sounds

7
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Good visual memory for faces

8
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Slowness of reading and semantic comprehension