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I thought I'd start a discussion where we can check in with members and use this space to keep in contact. It's a space to be able to say how you really feel and it's a space for the good, the bad and the ugly moments in our lives.
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
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oceangirlSenior Contributor
Hi @Teej
I know you will bounce back you always do. I have an appointment tomorrow too with my psych. I'm just waiting on some washing and then going to bed soon. Not feeling tired yet.
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Zoe7Senior Contributor
Take the time you need @Teej and know we will be thinking of you and hoping that you can pull yourself up out of that hole quickly. So pleased you have your psych appointment tomorrow and certainly am hoping that helps. Here for you when you return and sending you love and hugs for now 💐💜
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
Hugs n hugs @Teej ..... I hope you’re feeling better and back with us soon.
💜🌷
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TeejSenior Contributor
I’m wondering if anyone has a good book or article on identity and/or personality.
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Zoe7Senior Contributor
Nothing I can think of off-hand @Teej but more than happy to discuss the ideas of identity/personality with you 
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TeejSenior Contributor
Lol @Zoe7 Right now I have bugger all personality and an identity deficit 😜. On a serious note though, I am struggling with trying to understand lots. I am really lost and confused as to how to develop them in a healthy way. I have a feeling that I’m a therapy tragic 😖
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Zoe7Senior Contributor
For what it is worth @Teej I don't think you have bugger all personality or an identity deficit. I actually see you as a very humourus and self aware person. Although you struggle at times with where you are sitting in your life - you do continue to connect here and it is often not only with wisdom but also with care - that further shows us who you are.
So much of our identity is formed when younger and if we have been through trauma it can make us feel like we have lost what we could have been rather than identifying who we are now - some of that is as a result of what we have been through but it also - I think - gives us more empathy ...and that you certainly have.
I have no doubt that you are second guessing your positives right now and letting that negative mind take over - but I am also sure that all of us here can see your positives - because they are many 
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
I know of an article @Teej, but it talks about the development of identity from the perspective of adolescence. I think any crisis in life that is an existential one can throw us back into this continuum, and we have to find our way around in it again.
I think I have gone through at least a couple of mini-versions of this ..... exploring and re-establishing a slightly different version of my identity within the current reality I found myself in. I think I am far from alone in that .....
Interested ?
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
Well said @Zoe7 ^^^^
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