If introverted feeling is a river, a Te grip is the equivalent of the INFP building dams around every edge of the river, until the water becomes entirely trapped inside. Nothing can enter that will further pollute the river, but the water also ceases to flow. It ceases to integrate. Introverted feeling lies polluted and dormant inside of Te’s walls, where it is safe but also wholly ineffective. To outsiders, the INFP may seem to have lost the very essence of who they are, as their compassionate and creative personalities have been replaced with a strict, almost militant version of themselves.