compulsion

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

Each act of outrage delivers short-term relief that reinforces the cycle, maintaining the compulsion rather than resolving it.

He described the University of Chicago as an "idyllic academic institution" where he was "instilled with the capacity for critical thought and an ethical compulsion not to suffer fools who impeded his search for truth".

There’s even a term for it, a German word, zugzwang, meaning “compulsion to move.”

After finally getting help, he freed himself of “the compulsion to destroy myself. But I still had the demons, the anger, the feeling on edge and never feeling secure.”