COMMON
EGO (NARCISSISTIC) TRAITS:

*The ego attaches and identifies with your personal story

* it resents

* it needs to control through dominance or manipulation

* it uses manipulative gaslighting techniques in order to confuse and disorient people so  they become more susceptible to their  demands and emotional abuse

* it uses social media as a means to seek  social status and attention

* it wants approval from others (external validation through recognition and praise)

* it craves more power over people and/or external circumstances (elitism)

* it lives in constant comparison to others

* it feels the need to be right (mental  standpoint)

* it thinks it is the separate doer of actions

* it believes itself to solely be the physical body/personality

* it is conditional

* it fishes for compliments/flattery

* it promotes separation/exclusivity

* it feels unworthiness (a sense of lack) and craves more things to over-compensate (for  its needs are never satisfied)

* it is uncomfortable being alone unless distracted (escapism)

* it is easily threatened and insecure

* it is over-analytical (excessive thinker)

* it has a strong sense of entitlement

* it feels guilt

* it gossips/opinionated/trolls

* it worries

* it is shallow (has a need to impress others)

* it overgeneralizes

* it obsesses over should, must and/or ought

* it holds grudges

* it has lacks empathy

* it has an appetite for drama (to feel significant/important)

* it focuses on past/future (at the expense of  being in the present moment)

* it is emotionally reactive

* it catastrophizes (it takes a little problem and transforms it into a big, terrible, life-changing event)

* it depends on the opinions of others

* it does not trust

* it is defensive (taking things personally)

* it is co-dependent on people

* it represses emotions

* it cannot love unconditionally

* it is possessive

* it hoards/has OCD

* it accumulates

* it has unrealistic expectations of others  (expecting others to meet its standards or  wishes)

* it creates inner resistance to what is actually happening in life (rigid thinking)

* it seeks meaning and happiness from  external things

* it is envious

* it needs to prove its self-worth through  work and hobbies

* it is not comfortable with change or new viewpoints

* it lives in the dark (confusion)

* it labels and judges people and things

* it plays victim role or perpetrator

* it uses scapegoating as a defence  mechanism of denial by projecting  responsibility and blame onto others

* it complains

* it has low self-esteem (also known as an “inverted ego”)

* it is unconscious of itself