Understanding Personality: Traits, Ego, and Stages of Life

An expression of a trait from one’s feeling is considered a personality. A personality has can be based off person’s behavior, physical appearance, and even one’s mentality. These factors can help understand someone’s trait and ego, which is all linked to form a personality. A personality is the expression of individual traits and characteristics.

A personality is usually formed throughout the progression of an individual life. Genetic Composition, and the environmental setting play a role in an individual life. Our personality is dependent on the development of the eight stages of life, according to Erik Erikson. If you are successful in each development stage, you will gain a virtue for each stages that is completed. However, failing the

Erikson also stated around this age is where children become very social and have more self-esteem. During this age period, it was very rough. I became very sick and I did not have friends. My “friends” were my family members such as cousins and sisters. I became very sick at the beginning of this period when I was in Canada. In all, I remember playing around in the blistering cold with my cousin. As I went inside the house I took a nap and felt this burning sensation, and I just did not have the strength to get up. Then all I remember was waking up in the hospital unable speak or fully understand what happen. My mother explained to me that I passed away and I was brought back to life with a defibrillator. This effect my childhood because I was able to speak 3 languages and I completely lost forgot them. This has affected me in school, but due to my social trait I was able to mask any questions I had about myself and continued on with life. Not only did I experience a traumatic event, I witness my close family members passing away. Then I began to question life after death, I also questioned my own existences. I never asked for help but I believed that I needed to discover the answer to my questions solely for myself. One problem after another, I also lost control of my thoughts and began to talk back

During this stage, Erikson states that we are trying to find out our own identity and build a moral structure for ourselves. He also stated that we try to find out if we fit in with the social world. During this development stage, I was hiding the pain that was brought on to me. Despite how mentally strong I was there were more deaths in my family. The biggest of them all was the death of my mother. The death of the person I cherish the most dropped my heart in the depths of darkness and obliterated my mind. I hated everyone in sight and I unleashed pure angry that built up rage. My mind collapsed even more when I witness the strongest man in the world, my father break down into tears in front of me. I became antisocial and accepted that I did not want to deal with anyone in my life other than protecting my sister. This attitude also translated into my grades, and attendance at school. I knew right from wrong, but I did not care. I did not care what society thought as well. I fell into isolation for the majority of this period. Year after year, more close family members died. Suddenly when life couldn’t get any worse, I got into another event where i was brought back to life by a defibrillator. This immense pain I had ultimately made me break every single relationship I had. At the age of eighteen is when I climbed out of my hole, but only