Hello everyone. Does any of you suffer from an identity crisis? Sometimes i feel like i dont know who I am, i don't know my identity. I can't explain it very well but its something i call identity crisis which causes me a lot of fear, anxiety and doubt. I have done ERP for my harm and pure OCD and it helped me but this identity crisis still exist. Does any of you have the same issue?
I am so sorry you feel this way. It is really common in this day in age. What's helped me, though I'm still figuring it out and probably always will be, and so will you, is finding what you like. What do you enjoy doing, what gives you that sense of peace? And if you don't know, just start trying different things. Read, go on walks, try a sport. You most likely have many beliefs and opinions and also make you who you are. Labels are not always a bad thing. If you want my two cents, we have an identity crisis when we are lost spiritually. Believe it or not deep within all of us there is a drumming, that is ancient, and constant, in your blood, in your family, in your sex/gender. Our roots lie in our ancestors, from ancient times, and they did not have identity crises because they had a connection to... something. Just a suggestion. Finding my own way to not feeling so isolated with the world around me has given me a sense of purpose, and every time I connect with that I feel powerful. Can I ask, what is your bloodline? European? Hispanic? Asian?
I know thatt ocd causes this identity crisis because of the doubt that it creates. I have this crisis for many years because of my OCD. But at this time its a little bit more confusing because my harm ocd is under control. I think that maybe this identity crisis is another subtype of OCD and maybe i have to do ERP for this. Its kinda different now than it was before that's why i am a little bit more confused.
I feel like im having an identity crisis quite often, it’s apart of my existentialism subtype. I feel like when im not anxious, I don’t get these feelings. I don’t worry about not knowing who I am. When im anxious or I start to ruminate, all of these thoughts and feelings come back. Nothing has changed, the only difference is the anxiety and ruminating
Yes I do. It’s hard I feel like I lost myself during my traumatic Harm OCD phase.
i don't know who i am. trauma and bad choices. being exposed to things as a kid. developing an addiction. I'm not happy with who i was. now i don't know what i am. i have thoughts and feelings and they are processed. i have a face and a voice and i seem to fit in sometimes. but i don't fit in anywhere. i don't know if I'm really there. I'm kind of just along for the ride. my eyes are seeing things and the information is being relayed to me. what is me. who is me. how many of me are there inside my shell. how many masks do i have. what am i. who's emotions are i feeling. who's thoughts am i having. am i good or bad. do i exist at all. am i a ghost. am i a mannequin. am i a puppet. am i an actor. what are my motives. what is my goal. who controls me. it hurts. help.
I have this issue that I need help with and I would like to hear if anyone else has gone through something like this along with any tips. A few months back I had what was arguably my worst OCD episode in my whole life, it lasted a whole week, in this week I felt nothing but constant anxiety and obsession over this thought, it was like nothing in life mattered except this thought and that lead me to really become disconnected from what’s around me and become so occupied in my own head. After this week, I felt extremely numb and disconnected from myself and my identity which lead me to go down a spiral of disconnection and I had a lot of nostalgic sadness due to thinking “I miss the old days when things were so simple and I didn’t have severe ocd” and this caused me to become very sick of ocd thoughts to the point of suppressing them. Now it’s been quite some time and I have become much calmer but I still feel 2 main things from this extremely bad OCD episode that have stuck with me. 1) I feel extremely disconnected from my identity, my thoughts and emotions, I cannot name my emotions nor embrace them anymore and I can’t think straight (brain fog). 2) that sense of continuous background anxiety that I experienced in that week in my bad OCD episode has stuck with me and now I feel that anxiety all the time for no particular reason along with feeling dull, sad and disconnected. I feel like I have unresolved emotions and experiences from all this but at the same time I feel like I can’t point out anything specific that is causing me to feel this way. I have searched up symptoms for generalised anxiety disorder because of my continuous anxiety but I do not seem to match any of the symptoms, in fact I currently never feel anxious about anything except things related to my bad OCD episode. Please do not hesitate to leave any helpful comments if you have any :) and thank you in advance.
I’ve had this problem for a few months I question if I actually believe myself, it could be something small like my fav color or if I really love someone. If I think I like something my brain automatically goes to “you only like it because you think people want you to like it” even if I’m saying that I like something in my head and no one would ever know, it’s just small things throughout my day like that; that have me questioning who I am and if I even know anything about myself. I don’t know if this is related to ocd and would like to know if anyone has experienced this.
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