Self-generated violence is more fatal because the victim feels free.

Evidence

In view of the ego ideal, the real ego appears as a loser buried in self-reproach. The ego wages war with itself. The society of positivity, which thinks itself free of all foreign constraints, becomes entangled in destructive self-constraints. Psychic maladies such as burnout and depression, the exemplary maladies of the twenty-first century, all display auto-aggressive traits. Exogenous violence is replaced by self-generated violence, which is more fatal than its counterpart inasmuch as the victim of such violence considers itself free. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 127

Categorization

• XREF: This is the heart of why exhaustion has no one to blame — the victim considers itself free, so the violence is invisible to critique. — connects to: Sadism fails because the victim’s transcendent freedom fundamentally escapes capture — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 999