WordNet
self-torment
n. self-imposed distress [syn: self-torture]
Usage examples of "self-torment".
North, the drunkard and self-tormented, had a power for good, of which Meekin and the other knew nothing.
When their intellectual outlook is narrow, they fall into all sorts of holy excesses, fanaticism or theopathic absorption, self-torment, prudery, scrupulosity, gullibility, and morbid inability to meet the world.