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Discover LudwigThe phrase "torment myself" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use the phrase when describing a situation in which a person is causing themselves emotional or mental distress. For example, "I've been tormenting myself by thinking about the choices I've made in the past."
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"I often torment myself with a theoretical question," he said.
And then I would pull myself up short, because it seemed like such an impossibility and it was cruel to torment myself with such thoughts.
But it is preceded by these two sentences: "I spend the day, as do many others, in watching Glenn orbit on TV, and I torment myself for not working.
I knew that if I thought about the works I'd not yet played in public but wanted to do, I'd torment myself.' She remembers arriving to stay with her husband in Chicago, where he was then working, and the radio being tuned to Rudolf Serkin playing the second Brahms concerto.
"During the day, I shake uncontrollably from the amount I torment myself by thinking about what has happened," Brock continues.
"During the day, I shake uncontrollably from the amount I torment myself by thinking about what has happened," Turner continues.
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"I tormented myself a great deal".
What interest could I have I have in tormenting myself, lying, killing my daughter?
"I tormented myself for the longest period of time about whether I should go, because I love the work," he said.
I tormented myself, a little bit, over which cake in my repertoire was the right one; I liked this one because it had history.
I would sleep for days and when I was awake I would spend hours lying there, crippled by fear, tormenting myself.
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