Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research
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Re: Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research
#2See also: David Bowie.
Re: Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research
#3See also: David Bowie.
See also: Elton John
Re: Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research
#4I got a nickname when I was 14, my life completely changed after that. I went from sitting alone at lunch, to having parties with over 100 people. Most of them only knew me by the nickname, or variants of the nickname. I went by it almost exclusively for over 10 years. I definitely feel like a different person than I was then.
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#6you mean like 4chan?
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#7I wonder how much this applies to furries. How often is a fursona “the real me” vs roleplay? I’ve witnessed both in different individuals, and also both within a single person (primary ‘sona and some other separate ones which are just role playing).
Adjective Species probably had an article on this, though it also reminds me of the discussions about therianthropy, contherianthropes, and New Age discussions of the use of masks in tribal religions.
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#8Does anyone here do this? Seems like a powerful thing - I might try it. I'll need to come up with some good names.
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#9This sounds a bit like "fixed role therapy" [1]
[1] http://www.pcp-net.org/encyclopaedia/fixed-role-ther.html
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#10This worked on our (then) 5 year old, who was shy on the soccer field but kicked it up a notch when we told her to be a dinosaur. Of course, this also resulted in her running around with t-rex arms and baring her teeth, so I guess you have to be careful which alter ego you adopt.