Has anybody ever felt like they needed to reinvent themselves?
I don't know if it is a reinvention or if it is just a feeling of the need to shed the part of me that has been a negative representation of me.
For example, for me, I have never liked my name. It isn't that I don't just like it, I don't feel like it is a reflection of me as a person. I look at my name and I kind of don't recognise it as me, it's just a name. I've thought about changing it to something that I can relate to, that represents me, and has real meaning. It is something I have thought about for years and years but I am worried that people won't understand.
I don't know if it is the need to change and be the true me after years of hiding or blending in as someone else or if is due to me being in a truly terrible place mentally and it's my way of changing something in my life, even a form of escaping in some way. Thoughts?