stackyFACTSSometimes the urge to casually ruin your own life is literally built in. Psychoanalytic theory proposes a 'death drive' called Thanatos, an innate compulsion toward chaos, risk, and returning to an inorganic state. It perfectly explains why you text your toxic ex at midnight.
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