compulsion

“Addiction is like an ironclad compulsion,” said Dr. Michael McDaniel, the medical director of Heartland House in San Diego.

At this very early stage in the 2024 election, Trump’s personal compulsion as a political “strategy” appears to be encountering serious difficulties against Vice President Kamala Harris.

"It can be hard to open up and talk to someone about your obsessions or compulsions, which may lead to the condition not being diagnosed and lead to feelings of isolation."

“You see my outside, but you don’t see my inside, and it’s just awful in there. This compulsion with winning, it’s a sickness.”

Her dad moved out when she was in grade school, under similar circumstances to Mitch Winehouse, so she understood the compulsion of a young woman to stand in the spotlight trying to be special.