An identity crisis is a period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person, maybe a self at the moment, your sense of identity becomes insecure. Huge transitions in our 20s put our identity into question in a way that we often don't have to question in other periods of our life. The biggest trigger for this experience is change in which we're forced to make decisions from a place of uncertainty. We might find it harder to remember our values and our mission and the things we love. What makes us really us?