I'm a 16 y/o girl and for the past I don't know how long I've felt like I have no sense of identity. And I know it's typical to go through an identity crisis in teenagehood, but I think this is something bigger. I feel like I'm not a real person, or like I'm both a puppet and the puppeteer pulling the strings. I rapidly switch between obsessions and those obsessions take up 100% of my sense of identity. That's all I am. Then when I go onto the next thing that whole period of time will seem foggy, and I'll struggle to remember how it felt to be a "different me." It'll almost feel like a totally different person. I don't know how else to describe it. I'll be able to pick out moments, I can remember other times in my life, but I won't be able to get the overall sense of everything. It's like I'm looking through a scrapbook with pictures of a life I haven't really experienced trying to tell the story like it's me. I feel like I can't predict my future feelings and actions. I feel out of control, even though from the outside my life seems totally in control and I seem like a successful person.
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