Personality

Are you ruled by a set of feelings and thoughts set into your system,  both mentally and into the very fabric of your flesh. They represent a history of incomplete, undigested experiences. Repeated bad habits.

This set of patterns is unique to your personal history, And, it is constantly being reinforced in self perpetuating feedback loops of thoughts-feelings and/or feelings-thoughts. One generating the other, regenerating again.

You feel stuck.

Then you identify as who you are by these familiar yet imaginary chimera. You call it personality. If it "works" for you, you try to keep it going. Until ... it doesn't. Then you slump into a depression. Or, choose to wake up.

The good news is that simply seeing the situation for what it is creates the beginnings of the dispassion which allows this sort of thing to resolve itself just in the process of life itself.