I have no idea what makes up an identity. I feel I both have an identity less me which is a weird, raw state, and too much identity which brings confusion but at least it's not emptiness.
I notice psychiatry pretty much skips over this matter. If you don't have dissociation or BPD and you still have identity issues that are troublesome, what "are" you then? Nothing, is my answer, no one cares about that symptom.
I do not have any history of abuse. Yet I had so many personalities it's crazy. And no, to me it is not normal. It's not something everyone goes through. People seem to have a CORE. When I am stripped to the core, there are NO identifiers left!
I realize I will just have to live like this. Psychiatry is not interested even discussing it with me. Books say it doesn't exist. It's fine. I'll continue living. But it makes life choices hard, I don't know which one of me I should listen to.
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