As a psychological disorder suicide relates specifically to unmet or frustrated needs, such as the need for acceptance, safety, and succorance. There are many pointless deaths, but never a needless suicide. Every suicide act is addressed to certain unfulfilled needs. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Category: Quotes
Quote of the Day 5 Nov 2015
If the pain were relieved then the individual would be willing to live. Nobody wants to embrace pain; we just want to get out of the way of the hooves that hurt us.–Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 4 Nov 2015
The central issue in suicide is not death or killing; it is rather, the stopping of the consciousness of unbearable pain which-unfortunately-by its nature entails the stopping of life. -Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 3 Nov 2015
There are many pointless deaths but never a needless suicide. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
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