A compulsion is doing something that is not good for you, over and over, knowing full well it's damaging you and your loved ones... but you can't stop.
With that in mind, I wondered, if I could do it over again, knowing what I know now, what would I do differently?
"Knowing football and knowing international football, over the next seven games in the group we're going to meet up and we're going to have injuries in those games.
In a way, I think it would be better to not know it is going to end because if you live your life knowing it's over, the pressure to have fun might be too much.
"That's what makes me want to do the show, over, and over, and over again – knowing that it's affecting people in that positive way.
I handed it over, knowing there was nothing but frustration in her next fifteen minutes.
"Part of the recovery from any disaster is knowing it is over," he said.
"He was only a pawn in Isis's stupid game but knowing it's over, that he's finally dead, still hasn't sunk in.
This year, players have to make a decision: wait until the lockout is over, knowing it could extend well into the season — as an earlier one did in the 1998-99 seasor — or sign with a team overseas.
He had to kill two of the enemy – "one with a bayonet and one with a commando knife, looking the guy in the eyes as they glazed over, knowing he was the last thing the poor little bastard saw".
