*waves shyly*

[Aura]

Hello there 
I'm not good at talking about myself, but I'm gonna give it a go.
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed and because of this I often feel intellectually inferior to pretty much everyone. But I am willing to learn and I am forever questioning things and to me intelligence is always craving to learn something new, not assuming that you know everything already. But it seems that other people in my life don't think the same and I am often made to feel I am beneath others and I have to work harder to prove myself. You could argue that this happens because I allow it to happen, and you would probably be right.

When I was 17 I had a nervous breakdown. Now I am fascinated by mental illness and the idealist in me wants to completely remove the stigma that is attached to mental illness and bust the myth that  people with mental illness can never make a full recovery.  But this is just a dream
I am particularly interesting in typology. I don't believe in putting yourself and others into categories, I believe in understanding others and growing as a person and if there are tools to assist you with this then I am all for it I'm particularly interested in the Enneagram and I am currently studying it. A lot of people poo-poo the whole thing and I must confess that so did I but after delving a little deeper it has proven to be an extremely useful tool. It has helped me to help myself

I care about others and I have a deep need to understand them. I am just getting into psychology and rediscovering my love of it, as I did it at school for a few months before my breakdown (which i have recovered from by the way. See, it's not impossible!)

I think that will be all

[SWM]

Hi there,
Welcome to the Forums
that was a nice introduction, I am pleased to have you with this.

I like what you said about intelligence it seems that you are modest about yourself which IMO is much better than presuming to know everything but actually being an ass.

Some people equate knowing things with intelligence. I think intelligence is how you use what you know. They say Knowledge is power but wisdom does not need power.