"So dissolved identity > Panic attacks when choice-satisfaction plummets > subconscious suggests all kinds of cartoonist extremes for an easy and powerful identity > Conscious mind agrees to play along, uses this character to make decisions about > Choice-satisfaction rises. "
I'm sure it's different for most others, but I had the opposite experience. It has introduced a great calm into my life.
From where I am now, I see identity as the central problem we face as a species.