Dyadic suicides are those in which death relates primarily to the deep unfulfilled needs and wishes pertaining to the significant other-the partner in the important current dyad in the victim’s life. These suicides are primarily social in their nature.-Edwin Shneidman, Definition of Suicide
Category: psychache
Quote of the Day 25 Nov 2015
“When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. ‘This is my last experiment,’ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. ‘If there is any eternal torment worse than mine I’ll have to be shown.”
Quote of the day 22 Nov 2015
The main point of working with a lethally oriented person-in the give and take of talk, the advice, the interpretations, the listening-is to increase that individual’s psychological sense of possible choices and sense of being emotionally supported.-Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 21 Nov 2015
Most suicide is a dreary and dismal wintry gale within the mind, where the vital issue that is being debated is whether to try to stay afloat in a stormy life or willfully to go under to nothingness. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
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