Do any of you guys have identity problems? I lost myself years ago and still trying to find myself. I lost my true personality. How can you find your true self?
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What do you like to do? Maybe you can find a bit of yourself in an activity again
I like to talk with friends and family, i enjoy school and work.
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That sounds like a good identity there. Learning, socializing, family, earning a living.
I think people get too wrapped up in what there calling is or who they are.
For me life is just an experience for good or bad and everything inbetween. Gotta find meaning in it how ever you can.
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Great response! I agree thats what life is all about.
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Yep yep. Hope your having good night @anon36467691 
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I am having a good night. I hope you are too!
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I never had a true sense of identity until this year. I’m still figuring it out. But it helps to identify little things that you like over time and gather them around you. For instance, a few years ago I had to buy a shower curtain, and I chose a green one with lots of big tropical leaves on it, because I thought it was pretty and funky. Over time I’ve had to gather various household things and have taken note of the kinds of colours and patterns I like to have around me. That’s one thing I can very easily point to and say, “I chose this, I wanted it, this makes me feel like myself.”
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Great examples. I will take note of that.
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I know who I am and what I am about.
My interests can be pretty fluid but my core self is set in stone.
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How do you get there?? Did you do something in particular to have a strong sense of self?
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I don’t really feel I have much of one tbh
Get by fine though
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In my case my identity evolved over time.
Now I’m a disabled sz on the recovery track.
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I lost my identity. Im trying to get it back.
When I’m not being agent 86 of CONTROL, I am Maxwell Smart.
I still have the same tastes in books and music. I feel I’ve lost a lot of myself. I’m diminished by self abuse. Now I’ve reached the point I can’t hurt myself anymore unless I take an action, that my thoughts are powerless.
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Well, you seem an introspective seeker. That’s part of who you are anyway
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Are you talking about me @cragger?
@anon36467691 yes I was referring to your own search for identity. Some people might not even ask the question
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I think this illness can defos fuuck with one’s identity— at least it did for me.
I have a lot of internal voices, so it’s very difficult to gauge things when you have voices telling you the complete opposite of what you know in your heart to be true to you.
All I can say is: Even though we struggle with it immensely at times, we are not solely our illness.
Yes, it affects the day-to-day, and the voices, paranoia, and delusions challenge everything we know, love and hold dear— but in doing so, the fight to regain yourself actually makes your identity stronger in a way.
You relearn what is important to you, and that, in turn, paints a telling picture of who one is as a human being.
Don’t lose hope and never give up 
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