Individuals have different thresholds for enduring or tolerating pain; thus the individual’s decision not to bear the pain-the threshold for enduring it-is also directly relevant. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Tag: psychache
Quote of the Day 15 Nov 2015
From the view of psychological factors in suicide, the key element in every case is psychological pain; psychache. All affective states (such as rage, hostility, depression, shame, guilt, affectiveness, hopelessness, etc.) are relevant to suicide only as they relate to unbearable psychological pain. If, for example, feeling guilty or depressed or having a bad conscience or an overwhelming unconscious rage makes one suicidal, it does so because it is painful. No psychache, no suicide. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 13 Nov 2015
The explanation of suicide in humankind is the same as the explanation of the suicide of any particular human. Suicidology, the study of human suicide, and a psychological autopsy of a particular case are identical in their goals: to nibble at the puzzle of human self-destruction. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 12 Nov 2015
Suicide occurs when the psychache is deemed by that person to be unbearable. This means that suicide also has to do with different individual thresholds for enduring psychological pain. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
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