In counseling work, one of the hardest thing for patients to embrace is the idea of “self as context” i.e. to step out or “zoom out” of your “identity/mindset/thoughts/feelings” in order to observe or shift your perspective on your current context.
It requires one to hold one’s “identity, mindset, thoughts and feelings” more lightly for psychological flexibility.
By seeing and experiencing it in a different way, it can help the individual to get unstuck from their current troubles and pivot.
It’s like your life is happening in a movie studio, and you are playing multiple roles in different movies and in different episodes.
One moment you are a Doctor. In another moment you are a husband, partner or wife. Another moment, you are a sister, brother, friend, impostor, employer, dad, mum, inner child, the “not good enough person” etc.
If you are unable to shift your mindset, identity, character or role, to be more congruent or more helpful for your context, you are in trouble.
An adjustment disorder may be the result.
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