Help me find the word?

[dewey]

 

[True Grit]

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Change it to a noun? Compulsion?

 

[NicoleRM]

vice?

do you know what it starts with or sounds like?

 

[HEChicken]

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You all have come up with some GREAT responses. None is the word I have been trying to remember though, unfortunately.
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That's the frustrating part - I don't. I keep thinking it is kind of a medical word though, like "psychopathy" (had to look up the definition of that one and it wasn't right) or something like that. It is right there in the hazy reaches of my mind and every time I think I'm going to just reach out and grab it, it swims further away again.

Thanks for all the guesses so far!

 

[kuntrygirl]

 

[sheaviance1]

pyshosomatic comes to mind, but i looked up the definition, and it doesn't fit......ugh.

 

[Souperchicken]

masochist?

 

[Avalon1984]

self fulfilling prophesy in a sense that she thinks she can only find "bad" men and in that turn attracts them?

learned helplessness? In a sense that she doesn't understand that she has the choice to not date bad men?

Hope that helps

 

[HEChicken]

Pathology. It just came to me!!! That's the word I've been looking for these past few days. Now I just need to go look up the definition to see if it actually fits where I needed it to.

Thanks again to everyone who had their thinking caps on for me.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Well, glad we got that out of the way, now I can stop checking this thread!!