Do you find it hard to understand yourself?

Nice topic you've chosen!! I've asked myself the same question every once in a while. "Do I understand myself??" or "Who am I really?" and till now I haven't managed to answer those questions. There's still so many things I have yet to find out about me. That is why I don't agreen whenever someone says "I understand you .." because how could they? When I myself am confused.

I think I understand myself it`s just that there are times I just can`t accept the truth `bout me.

Ya I also feel difficult to understand myself something. A human being is a emotional creature. where there is emotions this will surely happen.

I actually find myself easy to understand. I have spent a great deal of time evaluating myself in many situations, looking them over objectively, questioning my behavior and the reasons why I act the way I do. But more than that, I listen to the criticisms of my peers. In may situations, I would ask my peers to criticize me so I can gain more knowledge about myself and how I can be a better person. Though for others, I deal with them the same way, looking through things objectively but taking into account their emotions on issues. I do believe this has helped me in maturing a lot over the years.

I have been interested in psychology and personal development for many years, and I like to learn more about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses. I was diagnosed with a depression 4 years ago, and since then I have talked to 4 different therapists. One of them was very good, he helped me a lot and I learned a lot about myself through the conversations that we had. I keep a diary and I like to write about my experiences, my thoughts and my feelings. Writing about those things is also a way to get to know myself better, and it has been very useful for me.

Yeah,I agree with you.I've always been thinking about this question,the more I thought,the more I got confused. I am 21,just graduated from the college.I am just standing at the crossing,wondering where I should go.For many of friends at my age,they all have the same problems when we talk with each other.So I doubt this may be a problem about a generation.Looking back to our parents at our age,life seemed very hard to them,so they set themselves the goals to make a living and support the family,focusing on getting a good job and salary,something like this.All these facts made all the things much clear to them.When it comes to us,our life gets better and better because of the hard work of our parents.For most of us,we don't care much about suriving.We can have good education,learning a lot things like piano,guiter,violin,dancing,singing and so on.And lots of us have accpeted this training when we were kids.However,as we learn more things,the outside world gets more things to attract us which can also confuse us.Right at this moment,we lost something.I do not know where to get the answer,my friends,would share your ideas with me.

There are times when I dont fully understand myself. I know who I am, but it is more of why I do some of the things I do. I mean how do we all know why we do the things that we do and how we think. There are things that we will never know.

Hey beaushell! That's true, I myself sometimes don't understand me. Sometimes I need other people's opinions, honest opinion of what they think about me. When stuck in a problem, or when in faced with a hard situation, I end up questioning what I did or how I reacted. As a person, we should also give ourselves a time to get to know our self, It's one way to get to being truly happy, to real bliss. :)

Yes, it is hard to understand myself, that's why I read self-developmental books because I always feel there are some things I need to find out about myself. Gradually I discovered why I developed inferiority complex and why I was so indifferent. Sometimes I refer myself as anti-social who dreaded being in the crowd and partying with friends. Right now I am still on the process of understanding myself. I made an effort to do this because I don't want other people get affected with my being indifferent and insecure.

Yes,there's a time that i dont understand myself.Im hypocrite if i wont accept the facts sometime i do know that i even hurt somebodys feelings.That's way sometimes it makes me hard to understand others too.But im trying to be more considerate most of the time. Happy my lotting my friend.

Every time i come to the conclusion that i have understand myself completely, something happens & i am back at the beginning.Sometimes i think that I am Invisible.

en we really should ask ourselves this question "who are you ?" when we make any action . Who are you ? What do you want ? These questions are very in deep meaning. If you know yourself very clearly it will reduce the mistakes you would make and you will be happier for sure.

The other thing that I find that people have a hard time with is what I call "Just Listening". In figuring who you are you need to just listen. Everyone hears words coming out of others mouths but do they actually take the time to LISTEN to the words. Sometimes that is how you can get to know someone, about who they are and what they are about.

Yes, it's hard. I've been studying psychology for 6 years now, and I still don't understand myself!. I recently created a website that might help some people -- you can take personality tests and participate in studies and get detailed feedback about the results. Take a look at http://yourpsyche.org

ya dear i find very difficult to understand me why because see tomorrow is exam for me and am still here doing other works and not studying and i want to study but i cant go hmm

I don't think it is difficult to understand myself because I have simple wants and needs. I can easily please myself and I can easily satisfy myself too. I have learned to cope up my weaknesses and I know my limitations. That's the reason why it is not difficult to understand myself.

yes some time it become very hard to understand what exactly i am/ it again gives me very mix kind of feeling that why this situation is getting arise that i have to search why i am to search myself, i thing because the time we think on this topic we are not happy with the situation and try to find out the reasion.or many times yes it happens that i starting hate what i have reacted to the perticuler situation and i could have done something else. but as people say truth is very bitter. i some one hide the things thn it become very dificult to face the cating eyes.

I don't find it hard to understand myself. On the contrary, I find it very easy. Having said that, it requires investment of a lot of time in thinking about my motivations, behavior, etc. I spend around 30 minutes a day just thinking and writing about my beliefs, behaviour, attitudes,strengths, weaknesses, etc.

Hi there, It is a kinda gift of the nature that I fast understand people and their motives. Looking at the face I can read his/her nature too. But when things come down to my own head I feel some time stumbling as if or not I do understand myself well. I often go for introspection and jerk myself inside up to see the flaw in me and some time I succeed and sometime remain puzzled but more or less I have known myself and still trying to see myself through objectively.