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
Category: suicidality
Quote of the Day 20 Nov 2015
A burnt out person whose whole life was a kind of chronic suicide, a living death, a life without ambition seemingly without purpose–Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the day 19 Nov 2015
The remediation (or therapy) of the suicidal state lies in addressing and mollifying the vital frustrated needs. The therapist does well to have this template of psychological needs in mind so that the therapy can be tailor-made for that patient. Often, just a little bit of mollification of the patient’s frustrated needs can change the vital balance sufficiently to save a life. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 18 Nov 2015
There are modal psychological needs with which the person lives and which define the personality and there are vital psychological needs whose frustration cannot be tolerated, which define suicide. Within an individual these two kinds of needs are psychologically consistent with each other, although not necessarily the same as each other. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
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