Unlike pesticide, or homicide or
suicide or genocide, egocide is an immaterial but no less serious form of ciding, and happens undercover all the time. There are multiple ways to commit egocide, the most common being (as mentioned by another dictioneerist, jpg3) simply devaluing yourself and having
chronic low self-esteem. However, this is a
slow process, and - by the way - egocide is not merely a form of suicidal behavior- more egocide is committed against an other
ego rather than one'
s own. This is basically the competitive side of human nature, the meanness and cutthroat behavior which flourishes in
toxic environments such as office buildings and rich
people's homes. (see sociopathy)
That said, the more radical form of egocide is the one committed by the selfsame
ego, which happens in traumatic experiences or abuse of hallucinogenic or psychotropic
drugs (psilocybin, lsd, etc), a chemically-induced wiping away of the frail scraps of the
ego in the deluge of traumatic experience. Technically the ego can't die, except through Buddhist practice (in which it is simply overcome), but it can be buried underneath the heap of psychic distress which encapsulates the traumatic event.
Egocide is very painful but meditation is a good remedy for its potentially adverse affects.