Multiple Personality Me

I have just worked out that I have had 7 "personalities" in my lifetime, each with different names. A lot of my life more than one "personality" existed simultaneously - Only three are not current:-

1. Daughter - Waldtraut
2. Friend - Val
3. Wife - Mache (too long to explain)
4. Mother - Mum
5. Professional - Mrs Carlill
6. Grandmother - Granny Tree House (too long to explain)
7. Me - Who am I? - (See previous post)

I don't mean to compare myself to someone who has Multiple Personality Disorder, now called  Dissociative Identity Disorder, & previously called Split Personality. This is a serious & complex condition which is usually caused by serious trauma. It must be extremely difficult to live with.
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder#1

Obviously both women & men experience this to a certain extent, but I would argue that it causes more conflict in women than in most men. Women of my generation made huge efforts to try to fulfill the demands of each role to the very best of their ability. All of the first 6 roles require women to put others first & to be "caring". Somehow the "Me" gets lost in that in my experience.

Seemingly today's women have moved on from this expectation of what women will be & do. Some women are more prepared to consider what they want as being equally as important as the needs of others. However, untill we radically change the way we bring up boys and girls, I don't think the emotional tug on women will genuinely be fair or equal with men. To be fair to men, many are participating wholeheartedly in the upbringing of children now to the benefit of both themselves & their offspring.

In my life it has only been in the last 9 years that I have begun to comprehend what I gave up to my multiple personality life & the compromises I made. I'm not saying that what I did was wrong or that I have huge regrets. I am saying that I wish I had been able to keep a space for No 7 - Me in the daily round of multiple demands on me & multitasking.

I really hope the current generation of women realise that No 7 is just as important as any of the other multiple personalities they have.