What is identity crisis?

Answer 1

You can find out more about Identity Crisis from this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_crisis_(psychology)

Answer 2

Hope it is not your real name. If you think so it is, that is an identity crisis. (Assuming your given name is not your real). That is if you start using that on letterheads that is the high point.
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Humor apart, every one of us will pass through this crisis one time or other.We are so used take the feedback from others consciously or subconsciously regarding our personalities and mental makeup, and according to the majority feedback or the feedback from our favored resources, we begin to assume the said chosen profile to identify and associate ourselves with as our real selves and ignore other attributes, reinforcing the same by repeated feedback right from childhood. Our designation, profession, color, creed, gender, nationality etc may also assume such identity. Once we are away temporarily or distanced irrevocably by any reason disease, depression, drugs etc out of those familiar auras and/ or the people, we tend to lose such identity in mind. It may be temporary phenomenon. In that state, the usual accustomed signals do not keep coming, and we are strangers to ourselves, and start searching for new identities. That is what I guess so. Hope it will pass muster for the question.

Answer 3

Erik Erikson, the psychologist who coined the term identity crisis, believes that the identity crisis is the most important conflict human beings encounter when they go through eight developmental stages in life. The identity is "a subjective sense as well as an observable quality of personal sameness and continuity, paired with some belief in the sameness and continuity of some shared world image. As a quality of unself-conscious living, this can be gloriously obvious in a young person who has found himself as he has found his communality. In him we see emerge a unique unification of what is irreversibly given--that is, body type and temperament, giftedness and vulnerability, infantile models and acquired ideals--with the open choices provided in available roles, occupational possibilities, values offered, mentors met, friendships made, and first sexual encounters." (Erikson, 1970.)

According to Erikson's stages, the onset of the identity crisis is in the teenage years, and only individuals who succeed in resolving the crisis will be ready to face future challenges in life. But the identity crisis may well be recurring, as the changing world demands us to constantly redefine ourselves. Erikson suggested that people experience an identity crisis when they lose "a sense of personal sameness and historical continuity". Given today's rapid development in technology, global economy, dynamics in local and world politics, identity crises are expected to be more common now than 30 years ago, when Erikson formed his theory.

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Answer 4

A Identity crisis is when you question who you are, where you belong & how you fit in this world....

Answer 5

Identity crisis happens when you question who you are. You have trouble defining your goals and you tend to be aimless and unproductive.

Answer 6

wanting or trying to be something or someone you are not.
for reasons you believe to be gainful in one way or another...
instead of saying the hell with it, and being yourself.........etc.

Answer 7

i dont know cant figuare out who you are