You Ego is LYING to You

People higher in neuroticism tend to suffer from (are more sensitive to) negative emotion. Shame, guilt, and remorse are some such emotions.
Observing my own psychology, it's interesting to me how the ego would rather torment the self than be relegated to a position of lesser importance in the psyche.
We are a confluence of several such almost autonomous forces. The ego, the passions, the relationships and their grounding force, etc.

[@devintriantos]

Very interesting. I see that the ego would rather be anxious and important than peaceful and less-so.

[@Alexman208GR]

I agree with the general sentiment but I'd put it in another way. The ego creates an identity to protect the person from negative feelings. No need to feel bad that you got rejected, you're a great person, you are wealthy, you're handsome.
To build this identity you need to form connections between the self worth and something external and make comparisons with other people, which the ego thrives on. If someone attacks the extrernal thing you're connected to, you feel a personal insult. Like insulting the team of a sports fan. They can't help but take it personally.
Another way to see how the ego is protective is to notice how it puts others down and lifts itself up. So after you've insulted his team, the fan will often defend his team and then insult your team in return, and if you don't have a team then the fan will insult you for not being a real fan of the sport!
So I guess my disagreement would be that, it's not the ego that makes you worry, it's that you worry and then the ego intervenes to protect you from the negative feelings.
And I wouldn't say it's the ego that torments you directly, but having a big ego is ultimately a coping mechanism and a non ideal way to handle the negative emotions, and a big ego controls the person, making them act badly. It's basically what narcissism is, extremely low self worth with an ego that's ballooned to such a size it's warping reality.
That's another attribute of ego, for it to make you believe it and listen to it, it recruits your intellect so that the thoughts it produces sound reasonable. It's a really important part of ego, that it often says correct things. "My team lost the match because the referees were biased". And you know what, that may indeed be true! But that thing being true doesn't mean it isn't born from the intellect in request of the ego in order to soothe the person feeling bad about his team losing. And the ego if it becomes big enough it can twist and warp the intellect to the point of delusion. Which is the nature of malignant narcissism.

[@devintriantos]

Very interesting. I see that the ego would rather be anxious and important than peaceful and less-so.

[@ThomasBarrios]

Good content!

[@devintriantos]

Thanks man!