compulsion

My friends are the same age, and I had seen the threat that middle age poses, the compulsion to make really poor choices at the cost of so much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

None of these people is real, but the irritations they represent – NIMBYism, narcissism and the compulsion to destroy others to build ourselves up – are quite familiar.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

But now, he is trying a 12-session course of private therapy to try to curb this compulsion, which he believes is driven by loneliness.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Without constraints, Mr. Epstein writes, “we have a deep-seated compulsion always to add.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

I had the strangest compulsion to open his cage and let him out.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

And when Maddie’s disorder tells her she needs to stay in control, she contorts all of this trendy pastel-colored, serif-typefaced wellness to her favor, using it to fuel her harmful compulsions.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Like Maddie, she can easily cloak compulsions under the blanket of modern body positivity.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

As the title suggests, the series challenges viewers to see how we grapple with our demons and our worst compulsions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025

But his chronicle of that heist expands into a saga of psychological suspense spanning nearly two decades and following half a dozen characters whose lives are twisted into grotesque shapes by their addictive compulsions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

They were racked with guilt for being alive, racked with pain in their heads and fear of ghosts, racked with nightmares and strange compulsions, punishments for being alive when the others were dead.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart