Ego Identity Vs Role Confusion Research Paper

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Surviving adolescence can be hard and incomprehensible to adolescents which can lead to more health issues, mentally and physically. Ego identity Vs. Role confusion is confusion for adolescent because of those exposures to these diseases, illegal substances or stereotypes. There’s not a guide of what will happen exactly or how to deal with the difficulty of understanding the changes, the sexual orientation and the risk of it or health risks. The difficulty of understanding the changes, whether it physical or mental, is different for each adolescent, not everyone develop or mature the same pace. Someone’s sexual orientation supposed to be clear by adolescence, but for some it’s earlier than that, and already has become sexually active. If an

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