<p>What do you think about introversion? Is it an illness that should be cured or just a different type of personality?</p>
<p>How is this debatable? Introversion is a personality type.
Extreme introversion can be 1 of many symptoms for certain psychological disorders (social phobia for ex)… Just like extreme extroversion could be a symptom for other disorders (maybe antisocial personality for example)</p>
<p>To argue otherwise, you’d say that only extroverts are mentally healthy?</p>
<p>Silly.</p>
<p>I’m introverted, but I can act extroverted; people who don’t know me well might not pick up on it. Even though I love being with my friends…I love being by myself too :p. I have a few very social friends who always have to be around other people - I wouldn’t be able to handle that lol. </p>
<p>Another case of nature vs. nurture. =p</p>
<p>What 1 sky pilot said.</p>
<p>I don’t have many friends, but the friends I do have are all very good friends so that makes up for it.</p>
<p>And introversion isn’t a disease, unless it’s something like justtotalk said. Introverts just need to put a little more effort into making friends. But we also often are able to enjoy being alone more than a major extrovert.</p>
<p>I think you’re very confused as to what “Introversion” means if you’re associating it with a personality disorder. Introvert describes someone who energizes alone and is drained from socializing, whereas extroverts energize by being around people and have find it harder to be alone. If you had to divide the population into one or the other, 50% would be extroverts and 50% would be introverts.</p>
<p>But it doesn’t work like that; most people aren’t either or. Think of it as a scale, from 1 to 10, with 10 being extremely extroverted and 1 being extremely introverted - either extreme would be kind of a problem. But most people fall around 4-6, a mix of traits and slightly introverted or extroverted. </p>
<p>“Introvert” doesn’t imply creepy loner who lives in a cave and “extrovert” doesn’t imply some ADHD social butterfly - those are just extremes. Well I’m no Psych major so I won’t pretend to know about personality disorders, but I’m guessing the “extremes” are linked with some disorders (like social anxiety disorder, borderline personality, whatever).</p>
<p>What do you think of extroversion? Is it an illness that should be cured or just a different type of personality?</p>
<p>Just kidding. But seriously–introversion is not a disease, or even personality disorder. It’s simply a facet of personality. A recent neurological study found that introverted brains were already thoroughly stimulated by itself, and an extrovert’s brain does not naturally have this stimulation, so they need people to fulfill that need while introverts do not. I probably badly summarized it, but you get the general idea. There’s more to introversion, obviously, like how Jungian cognitive functions work.</p>
<p>But anyways, introversion isn’t as uncommon as one might think, either. A little more than half of people are introverted. I myself am introverted, so I don’t really think it’s a mental deviation. At all.</p>
<p>actually i remember reading somewhere that the U.S. is divided into 70% extroverts and 30% introverts. of course, extroversion is preferable in this society (just look at OP’s post) so this may be a nurture thing. kids in the U.S. who are the more ‘loner’ types are often seen as more suspicious than the needy social butterfly.</p>