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Industry vs Inferiority
I joined my middle school B-Ball team. My cousins were always better players than I was making me feel inferior with my ability’s to play the sport.
In Erikson’s fourth stage, Industry vs Inferiority. The crisis is that in this stage children compare themselves to others. Which in turn they may experience feelings of pride or inferiority -
Intimacy Vs Integrity
At the age of 20 my fiancé and I moved in together to share and merge our lives into one.
In Erikson’s sixth stage, Intimacy vs Isolation, the major crisis is forming loving and strong relationships vs staying to one’s self and not exposing one’s self to committed an/or solid relationships. -
Identity vs Confusion
Many young adults my age have graduated collage and are well into their careers. An I’m just beginning to find my career path and what I want that to look like and/or be for my future.
In Erikson’s fifth stage, Identity vs Confusion. The crisis of this stage beckons the question of “who am I” during which many become conflicted with their ideas of who “they” should be.