Has your ego outlived its usefulness?
Your ego is an identity built through relationships, shaped by the roles you learned to occupy within your family, community, and culture in order to survive.
The good child. The caretaker. The achiever. The peacemaker. The outsider. The one who is needed. The one who never needs anyone.
These roles once served a purpose. They helped you adapt to the relationships and circumstances your survival depended upon, but when those conditions change, the identity built around them can remain long after it is needed.
That is when the ego has outlived its usefulness. What once helped you now stands in the way of your survival.