I have spent the past few weeks in silent self-observation as a means to help me become aware of my various personalities, and used this awareness to try to ascertain which of them are expressions of my Individualness and which are not.

One revelation I had during this process, is that I went into the effort assuming that my personalities would coincide with my various roles – one personality for Parent, another for Husband, a third for Employee, and so on.  In actuality I found that my personalities appear across these roles, largely dependent on my perceptions of my actions or the actions of those around me.  I found, and continue to find, this disturbing because it implies that some of my “darker” personalities can and sometimes do surface in some of my most loving and caring roles.

I plan to post more about this in the future, as I’m still figuring out what to do with this information.  It’s nice to know I’m not alone in this though; there is plenty of evidence around that many suffer from “multiple personalities”.