Victim of Erick Erickson

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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored. The constant sense of discovery is what I find most captivating about Psychology: looking at an individual's pretentious behaviour in an analytical way allows me to glance at the world in a new and present angle. As a Social Work student, psychology class is one of the most relevant subject to me that need to be passed by. It plays the role of discovering how people adapt in environment, how they think, their weaknesses and strengths, and how they response in different issues in life. As a growing woman in our society today, there are a lot of changes that are taking in and need to be face and accept. I am one of the victims of the Erick Erickson’s psychosocial stages of development, the Identity vs. identity confusion. I experienced sometime I cannot cooped up to everybody, feeling of out of place, because they have different point of view with mine. So as time goes by, I start to find myself, my true identity. Who am I? What is my purpose in life? What future waits for me? I begin to discovery my life in a wrong and wicked ways. Because of peer pressure and wrong circle of friends I taste alcoholic drinks, smokes, and joined in a wrong group. Because I am full of curiosity, what I am doing is a total incorrect in the eyes of my parents and in the eyes of everyone and mostly in the eyes of God. I’ve become total confused in my identity so I had to tray all those things. Seeking your true DNA in the wrong path can’t bring you your true identity. It makes me suffered everything that I tried in my early life, but as many says that ‘learn from your mistakes’, this line doesn’t give me the true change that I want to experience; not all mistakes can bring you the potentials to make you better. Famous quote says ‘every person has the ability to
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