How to be yourself?

Are you unsure of your role in life? Do you feel like you don’t know the ‘real you’? If you answer yes to the previous questions, you may be experiencing an identity crisis.

Theorist Erikson coined the term identity crisis and believed that it was one of the most important conflicts people face in development. According to Erikson, an identity crisis is a time of intensive analysis and exploration of different ways of looking at oneself.

So, how to be yourself and deal with the Crisis of Identity?

Different, people, ideologies and schools of thought have their own way of dealing with this issue. Watch this video if you want to know what Islamic sources suggest on how to be yourself and how to deal with identity crisis.