We can empathize with every person who has died by suicide and yet we should seek to thwart every suicidal plan that has not yet been consummated. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Category: suicidality
Quote of the Day 23 Oct 2015
Suicide involves both inner disturbance and the idea of death as escape. Edwin Shneidman
Quote of the day 22 Oct 2015
I have proposed the view that suicide is prevented by changing our perception of the situation, and by redefining what is unbearable. Perceiving that there are other possible ways of seeing things, redefining the impossible, bearing the unbearable, swallowing the undigestible bolus of shame or guilt. Edwin Shneidman
Quote of the Day 18 Oct 2015
The suicidal act is both a moving away and a moving toward. Psychache, psychological pain, is what the individual wishes to escape; peace is what the person seeks and moves toward. In suicide, the goals are merged as one: Escape from pain is relief–that is how peace is defined. The unbearable pain is transformed into peace; the suffering is taken away. –Edwin Shneidman
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