u/Belzaw

Heart types and treating emotions as reality

I have recently learned that my sister is very likely a 4 (I considered 9 but I don’t really think so anymore). So, I was thinking about her behavior in the context of trying to understand heart types. Is it a fair assumption to say that heart types tend to take their emotions/pain as reality?

Perhaps this is a 4 or BPD specific thing, but she seems to believe that when she feels hurt, it is all the fault of others because her emotional pain is truth. She doesn’t seem to understand that unfortunate circumstances, it being partially her fault, and that people end up hurting each other without malicious intentions are possible explanations. I could also see a similar pattern happening in 2s, possibly 3s as well.

This made me wonder if a general projection of one’s emotional experience onto others is a common pattern with heart types.

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u/Belzaw — 3 days ago

[Acne] Acne scars that won’t go away

I am not someone who gets a lot of acne and in the past my skin has been quite clear, but for some reason my acne has been scarring and not going away. My face has looked like the picture above for about 3 months now and idk what’s wrong. I would love to hear if anyone has advice. I have combination skin for context

My routine is:

Morning:
- wash face and cleanse with CeraVe renewing SA Cleanser
- apply olay complete daily moisturizer with spf 15

Night:
- wash face and cleanse with CeraVe renewing SA Cleanser
- apply differin adapalene gel 0.1% acne treatment (only every 2-3 days, not daily)
- put 2 drops of rose hip seed oil on face and rub in
- apply superberry hydrate and glow vitamin C dream mask

u/Belzaw — 4 days ago

Mistype Questionnaire Results

I posted a google form about two weeks ago gathering data about mistyping. Some people were interested in seeing the results so this is the results post. I asked how long the respondents have been studying the enneagram, so the “2+ years” is in reference to those who chose 2+ years as how long they’ve studied. I realize that people can still be incorrectly typed after 2 years, I just think it’s probably less likely. There are some pie charts of some statistics here: Pie Charts

# of people who responded and their type:
1: 2, 2: 3, 3: 6, 4: 9, 5: 9, 6: 7, 7: 9, 8: 3, 9: 9 (57 total)

# of people who responded and their type; only 2+ years:
1: 2 2: 2 3: 4 4: 3 5: 4 6: 5 7: 4 8: 3 9: 6

percent of each type that has studied 2+ years:
1: 100%, 2: 67%, 3: 67%, 4: 33%, 5: 44%, 6: 71%, 7: 44%, 8: 100%, 9: 67%

The following are interesting things I noticed. I also took note of which triads (object relations, centers, harmonics, social styles) every type mistyped as. Take it with a grain of salt since the sample size was low.

The percent of people who identified as 4s had the lowest rate of having studied the enneagram for 2+ years.

People who were more likely to mistype within their own center of intelligence (body, head, heart) were mostly head types.

People were more likely to mistype as their disintegration line than their integration line.

The only triad mistype that happened with every number was in object relations.

9s mistyped in every category except within their center of intelligence.

4, 5, and 7 were the most common mistypes.

The percent of people who said they hadn’t mistyped after isolating those who have studied the enneagram for 2+ years went down by more than 50%.

u/Belzaw — 13 days ago

For context, I am someone who dances at my university 5 days a week. Sometimes the dances we do require heels and I have some of the best heels for dancing you can get. Somehow, everyone else is fine after dancing in heels while the back of my heels tear off. The most recent time, I even put band aids on beforehand but it still tore. Does anyone know if this sort of thing is related to hypermobility?

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u/Belzaw — 15 days ago

I am a college student and when I’m there, I use the on campus gym, but I’m home and I was looking for a gym for like 2-3 months and it’s all so expensive. Lots of sign up fees or only deals on long term memberships. Does anyone have tips on how to get a gym membership for the summer without paying huge fees?

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u/Belzaw — 17 days ago