How to avoid an identity crisis

What is an identity crisis?

How to avoid an identity crisis involves knowing and understanding what having an identity crisis actually means. If or when a person fails to achieve an ego identity during adolescence, it is a identity crisis according to Erik Erikson.

At this time (usually during adolescence), a person is going through a period of very intense, self-analysis as he or she begins to seek ways to understand him or herself. An identity crisis may occur during the identity cohesion versus role confusion stage.

When there is no cohesion of identity role, confusion results. In this kind of a scenario, the person does not know who he or she really is and may make the following statement. "I don't know who I am!" Many times, with appropriate parenting professional guidance and counseling an identity crisis can be avoided.