By showing a mask to the world(hiding your true self), how does this damage your sense of self-understanding?

What are your thoughts? All comments are greatly appreciated!By showing a mask to the world(hiding your true self), how does this damage your sense of self-understanding?
Being confused and at a loss. As my real sense of undentity will suffer vaguely from what really it is about me.By showing a mask to the world(hiding your true self), how does this damage your sense of self-understanding?
Well all wear masks, all the time. Even when you're ';being yourself'; you're wearing the mask (called personality) that you've worked many years to create - consciously or subconsciously. It's just are way of interacting and moving through the world.





I think that the path to self-understanding stands regardless of the presence a mask or lack thereof. If one finds it somehow damages there sense of self, I would say that the person is waaay to attached to their persona, which is another issue within itself.
Sometimes, we use other people to determine who we are. It's called the ';looking glass self.'; Other people's reactions and behavior toward ourselves help us better understand ourselves. If you hide your true self, you will perceive yourself to be fake, or you won't be able to perceive your true self.








';Created by Charles Horton Cooley in 1902 (McIntyre 2006), the looking-glass self[1] is a sociological concept that has three major components and is unique to humans (Shaffer 2005). According to Lisa McIntyre’s The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology, in the looking-glass self a person views himself or herself through others' perceptions in society and in turn gains identity. Identity, or self, is the result of the concept in which we learn to see ourselves as others do (Yeung %26amp; Martin 2003). '; (1)





I would think most people do this. We all wear masks. We act like the people we wish we could be. We act in ways so that people perceive us the way we want them to. Therefore, we act in ways that we would make us happy to believe we are that way. By putting on a mask, we cause people to perceive us wrong, and therefore, you cannot know your true self.
what are you? - are you the legend of your own mind or are you the actions you take.





to yourself you are a essentailly good person and you ARE the legend you see in your own mind.





but also you are exactly what you project too - others judge you by your actions not by the qualities you have hidden in your mind and if actions you take are changed from what you feel is right in order to protect yourself from harm - then that coward is who you become.





your self understanding is only hidden from them you still always know it - it should not affect your potential to be the person you know you can be.





good luck with that thick shell or yours and whatever made it!
If you constantly put on a mask to make people accept/like you, it means you are telling yourself that you are not good enough…That You are not worth existing Even that you have to create a new one.


And how does this damage your sense of self-understanding? Well as it is the case here, you have to put some sense inside first.
if you are hiding your true self to everyone, then tendency later on when the people comes to know the REAL YOU, then their TRUST will be broken...





it is better to show the real you afterall you will know who is your true friend by accepting who you are in the real life...





IT IS HARD TO BE SOMEBODY AND YOU'RE NOT...
Having lived under a false self for 34 years before awakening, I can answer this with experience.


You have no understanding of yourself; its constant confusion. You are not able to see yourself as others are. And it makes you frustrated, angry and a bit crazy.
It doesn't. The mask is simply something you perceive as ';Different from yourself'; but actually it is the real you trying to interface with the unknown.
If we constantly pretend to be somebody else, we ourselves will start believing the lie.That will create psychological problems