Pretty sure most people I've ever met were either in (the illusion of) stable identification, or disillusioned and frightened by it!
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That it isn't the only available type of frame is pretty crucial, but most people never fully realize!
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There are also other problems.
Lack of core identity, without the tools to handle it, tends to land people in borderline/narcissism territory. It is emotionally destabilising.
"The tools to handle it" tend to superempower people and make them deeply, profoundly dangerous.
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Yeah, the decompensation aspect of narcissism, specifically. The struggle to maintain the self-defense mesh the disorder really is.
NPD sufferers are very sad, frightened people. A lot of that traces back to lacking mature ways of coping with an absence of a stable self-image.
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I am more of an advanced practitioner than a fully realized one, so I have some holes in my understanding and competence, but:
1) Full attendance to feelings as they come up, and meditation on emotions so as to do some heavier depth processing that regular life is too busy for.
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I see narcissism as a combination of emotional (second person) anxiety and physical (first person) extraversion, plus an unhealthy environment that doesn't accept the individual as they are. They are forced to act to please others, and constantly need to check how they appear.