After learning to better manage a lifetime of distress, I began two journeys within a few months of each other: volunteering as a Patient and Family Advisor in a mental health organization and enrolling in a Master of Social Work degree program. As these journeys intertwined, so did the associated identities of “person with lived experience” and “social work student,” reflecting the entangled sanism of the healthcare and education systems. Using Miranda Fricker’s concept of epistemic injustice as a basis, I define and explore concepts of power identity equivocation (when an identity occupies two different locations and meanings within a context) and power identity dualism (when a person simultaneously occupies two different identities within the same context) as they relate to my experience of social work education.