# Feel confused about where I belong? And it's sometimes very upsetting

**URL:** <https://community.patient.info/t/feel-confused-about-where-i-belong-and-it-s-sometimes-very-upsetting/676800>\
**Category:** Mental health\
**Tags:** Mental health\
**Created:** [4 September 2018 19:44 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/feel-confused-about-where-i-belong-and-it-s-sometimes-very-upsetting/676800 "2018-09-04T19:44:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon87974465](https://community.patient.info/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e5b9ba/32.png) [@anon87974465](https://community.patient.info/u/anon87974465)\
**Post date:** [4 September 2018 19:44 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/feel-confused-about-where-i-belong-and-it-s-sometimes-very-upsetting/676800/1 "2018-09-04T19:44:52Z")

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Hey guys

I hope you are all well.

I don't know of this is the right forum but couldn't find anything else relsted so please excuse me hehe.

I am a 26 year old guy and am half British half Egyptian. Over the years I love different aspects of both countries but I have came to notice how I am becoming quite confused and have a feeling of not belonging in either.

This is a feeling I have struggled with ever since I was younger having lived in Egypt for the first 15 years and the rest in the UK. During this time I had the sense both sides from both countries don't treat me as the opposite nationality and it hurts as it makes me feel lost.

When I am in Egypt my friends in me but you know when you feel others are sympathetic u r not the national so it's underlying feeling that's what I mean.

In reverse when I'm in the UK and that's where I live, even though I feel British on some/many times I don't feel accepted as being British.

How can I overcome all this confusion as deep down I have an attachment with both it's hard to explain.

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**Author:** ![nh\_user\_999719](https://community.patient.info/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@nh\_user\_999719](https://community.patient.info/u/nh_user_999719)\
**Post date:** [5 September 2018 14:55 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/feel-confused-about-where-i-belong-and-it-s-sometimes-very-upsetting/676800/2 "2018-09-05T14:55:01Z")

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Hello,

I wish I could help you...but I can not relate to your problem.&nbsp; I have lived in the same Country my whole life.

What I do hope for you....is that you will be able to just know who YOU are as a human being!&nbsp; When you become confident as your own person...with your own unique talents, gifts and weakness...I think those things won't matter to you as much.

Though I haven't experienced what you have, I can tell you being in your 20's is a difficult time because it is still an age where most everyone is still trying to figure out where they belong in life.

It is a common thing. As a woman in my 50's,&nbsp; I am so glad that I am not in my 20's!&nbsp;&nbsp;

I hope you focus more on WHO you are as a person rather than where you fit in as far as a Country. And I hope you can find friends that you can tell them these things. Good friends won't see you as a person from a Country...but they will look at the qualities of the person that you are!

Sorry I can not help you more. I can only say it is most important that you be a good person...and focus on that...and be confident in that.