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
Tag: suicide
Quote of the Day 21 Oct 2015
Suicide never stems from happiness-it happens because of the stark absence of it–Edwin Shneidman
Quote of the Day 20 Oct 2015
Sometimes the most difficult thing in the world is to choose to endure life. Edwin Shneidman, The Suicidal Mind
Quote of the Day 19 Oct 2015
You should be thinking how to help the suicidal person generate alternatives to suicide, first by rethinking (and restating) the problem and then by looking at possible other courses of action–Edwin Shneidman, The Suicidal Mind
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