The phrase "about their impulses" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing feelings, desires, or reactions that people experience and how they relate to their behavior or decision-making.
Example: "In therapy, we often explore the reasons why individuals act impulsively and reflect about their impulses."
Alternatives: "regarding their urges" or "concerning their instincts".
When asked about their impulses to write, both cited the desire to understand their parents, and their lives, better.
"The prospect of being reported to the local authorities, even if they do not have weapons, may be enough to discourage patients with suicidal or homicidal thoughts from seeking treatment or from being honest about their impulses," he said.
Suppose that we now want to talk about the derivative of the impulse.
Some are quiet, almost guilty about their impulse to flee.
Cooper and his crew have been vocal about their impulse to go back to the festival's original impulse: to nurture the artist with an independent vision, to work outside the mainstream, to support filmmakers who are willing to push the envelope.
Americans even in their impulse to care about injustice in racial health care disparities have not focused adequately on the actual problem of suffering among black patients.
So I read the passage underneath the heading and right there in the opening sentence, for the first time, I saw a part of myself, the part that had frightened me so much for so many years, defined in print: "Mothers with an anankastic [ie obsessive] personality may experience intrusive and distressing thoughts about their babies, including impulses to inflict bodily harm".
In many ways, the unease and willful ignorance about teenage girls' lives, their violent impulses, their unsentimental desires, contributed to the unprecedented and often bizarre legal drama surrounding Kelly Ellard.
True to hip-hop self-assertion, Outkast and the Roots projected more bravado, even when their songs were about contradictory impulses: work and play, fooling around and fidelity, "thuggin"' and idealism.
In many ways, the unease and willful ignorance about teenage girls' lives, their violent impulses, and their unsentimental desires, contributed to the unprecedented and often bizarre legal drama surrounding Ellard.
Her impulse to worry would probably never go away — hypochondriacs almost never lose the impulse to worry about their health.
