"ill driven" can be a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means that something or someone has been poorly managed or controlled. Example: "The company's financial troubles were a result of its ill-driven expansion strategy." In this sentence, "ill-driven" is used to describe the expansion strategy as being poorly managed or executed.
There's already a system for rotating computer hard drives called Smart that often gives you a warning if your drive is ill (drives can fail without Smart warning you, but a warning ahead of time should be taken seriously).
Ms. Siddiqui's lawyers had tried to keep her muzzled to protect herself, arguing that she is mentally ill and "driven by an irrational and delusional belief that she can convince listeners that she can bring world peace," according to a motion they filed on Monday.
Heart rate variability (HRV) has been used to assess cardiac autonomic activity in critically ill patients, driven by translational and biomarker research agendas.
Was the suspect, Chris Plaskon, mentally ill, or driven by meds gone awry?
"When white men commit acts of violence in the U.S., they're lone wolves, mentally ill or driven by a parking dispute".
It was, I think, a moment of madness, ill conceived and ill thought out, driven more than anything else by endless news videos of streams of Syrian and other muslim refugees making their way across Europe.
How does Amanda Palmer stay motivated in a world where people get captured and tortured, where a plane crashes because a pilot is mentally ill and drives it into a mountain range, where people have terminal illnesses, where guns are in the hands of people who don't know how or when to use them?
Behavioural differences whilst ill may drive such an observation.
As Heatherwick explained to me, he started "thinking about what it would be like to be an old lady who is ill and being driven to the hospital by her grandson".
As details leaked out — a doctor's note, a depression diagnosis, a prescription, thoughts of suicide, a broken heart, an eye problem — they seemed to add up to the story of a mentally ill young man driven to commit mass murder and suicide.
