There is a lot of humor in her art and surely a self-satirizing impulse in the self-portraits.
In short, suicide is the self destructive impulse of a person who has every reason and ability to live.
In unadjusted comparisons the total OSIQ scores in the Psychological Self, including impulse control, emotional tone and body image, improved during treatment in both patient groups.
These character strengths — "perseverance, industriousness, grit, resilience, curiosity, application" and "self-control, future orientation, self-discipline, impulse control, delay of gratification" — make significant contributions to success in adulthood and upward mobility.
This powerful self-sabotaging impulse results from connecting our self-worth to our ability to resist temptation.
Having watched him since he declared his candidacy last summer, he is a notoriously undisciplined candidate, with no filter, self-restraint, impulse control, or ability to self-edit.
But it's a self-selecting impulse.
Was that the self-destructive impulse, or snobbery?
Even today, our self-preservation impulse helps explain our determined attempts to understand evil.
The forbidden held no fascination for her — she lacked any self-damaging impulse".
