"When some unpleasant truth starts bothering me, I'll have a complete mental breakdown, lose all my physical energy, possibly fall asleep, and maybe get the flu.... it used to last weeks in a row, now I've generally toned it down to hours with help from friends." -- Anon INFJ (a type of introvert called "The Counselor") Forum Mental and physical health are issues of great concern to most introverts.

Introverts are especially vulnerable to the so-called psycho-somatic illnesses like allergies, migraine headaches, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, if we don't give ourselves the timE alone we need.

Introverts needs to spend at least half their time alone for optimal mental and physical health.

Nancy has collected some links and articles of interest to introverts.

For us more than others, our mental health is our physical health. Learn more about this important area for introverts.

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