What is identity confusion?
Our identity is what we are. We all have a specific identity; one that is both physical and psychological and has many facets and layers. We were born with much of our physical identity and some of our psychological identity already given to us, but over time we added on this base. Experience and education taught us things that extended our identity. Some of these things were true when we learned them and remain true, others became less true over time and still others were never true. The things that remain true enhance our functioning, but the things that were false or became so, create self-conflict and limit our functioning. In short they create identity confusion. Identity confusion then is when our true identity is overlaid with mistakes, and these mistakes, like glitches in the software, screw up our psychobiological computers. They create conflict, stress and dis-ease. As I have said, identity confusion exists on both the physical and mental levels. One example of physical ident
