Needy
Recently, I've been learning all about enneagrams. The enneagram is basically a personality assessment that helps determine personality type, strengths, weaknesses, and how to become the best version of ones' self through self-reflection, self-care, and improvement. If there's one thing I've heard my whole damn life, it's that I'm independent and yet somehow also really needy. This juxtaposition of two extremes has made some question my mental health. While I'm not saying that I am guaranteed mentally healthy (undiagnosed depression and anxiety?), I'm mostly referring to the fact that my personality type is seen as one that does tend to deal in extremes emotionally. Learning about my personality type is the first time that I've felt truly understood, honestly. The following is a description I found on enneagramworldwide.com: " As feeling types, Fours have an intense emotional life, which can lead to big ups and downs. They altern