When I read Walker's book, I knew right away his description of the freeze type was spot-on for me. Including his notion that sometimes freezes fall into a sort of contentment with their characteristics and are therefore among the hardest to treat or change. Oh, for sure.
Living isolated by choice there are days when the inner critic screams that "this is insane, I hate it" and others when I'm fully content, as being isolated also gives me a great feeling of safety and most importantly a sense of peace. Peace is all I've ever truly wanted.
As Walker also points out, the freezes have several good traits (as do each of the 4f's). The positive attributes consist of acute awareness, mindfulness, poised readiness, a sense of presence. and--peace. Peace--what I always wanted! No wonder I have a hard time thinking of my freeze persona as necessarily a bad deal. Still, there are days when I'd like to burst out of my bubble/iceberg and reach out, and there are times when I was able to do so; though I always retreated in the end.
I'm fortunate to have a good therapist to help me work on the low lights of being a freeze. Even that's against the grain, as Walker hints that freezes are prone to bail out of therapy when it gets rough.
I've come to regard this not as a stereotype poor-me loser situation, but as a part of the trail. I mourn the reasons I went this route, including neglect/abandonment. I've been angry and spiteful about this, and towards my own history, as if it was my fault. Studying the freeze outcome at least has allowed me to understand a bit better, including those positive aspects.
I like the idea that it's better to understand and work with what and who we already are, no matter how we came to reflect a certain pattern. What else can we do? Finally, the only sure type is that of being human. Not everyone received certain needs, though, and therein lies the problem we're all struggling with.