self-destructive urge

Impulse-control disorders, on the other hand, typically involve an inability to resist a potentially harmful or self-destructive urge.

If Woods was motivated by a self-destructive urge, he got more than he bargained for.

But Pariser's anti-triangulation argument deserves attention because it represents the latest expression of a perennial self-destructive urge within the Democratic Party.

But Pariser's anti-triangulation argument deserves attention because it represents the latest expression of a perennial self-destructive urge within the Democratic Party.