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Melissa’s decision to join the army: Identity versus Role Confusion
Melissa (Age 17) struggled with her identity and sense of self in her future goals and occupation, so she joined the military to find herself through a positive ad supportive environment and relationships.
The crisis in this stage is the ability to form your identity and develop an awareness of who you are and what your capabilities are within their culture. Those that fail to experience their sense of identity experience a loss of purpose in life (confusion). -
Melissa’s Decision to Marry: Intimacy versus Isolation
Melissa (Age 28) and Keith decided to marry and share their lives together.
The crisis in this stage is between being close to others and having meaningful connections that assist in having a satisfied, enriched life (intimacy) and the lack of trust and communication and isolating oneself due to past or present trauma by not committing to another in a relationship (isolation).