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I have an further question. No pressure if you don't remember or it wasn't listed. (I'm really interested in anyone who can answer this)

Is there a term for when you believe that that "original ego" was killed by something else? Be it killed by "the world" or some serious life event or revelation or something.

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This is the ego death. You could fill libraries with what has been written on this phenomenon, though under many different names.

Looking at the wikipedia page, I'd say "ego death" sounds like a very different concept.

What the parent posters are talking about is when you have two personalities: the original and the mask, but the mask stays on so long it becomes the new permanent personality. The original "ego" is gone and already replaced.

"ego death" sounds like a loss of the only personality. There's no alternate.

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