lonliness....depression....no love...no money ...what????
2007-01-14 01:08:10 · 11 answers · asked by PLUTO 6 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
According to Edwin Shneidman, a leader in the field of suicidology, suicide results from “psychache,” a word he coined to describe the unbearable psychological pain arising largely from frustrated psychological needs.
2007-01-14 04:51:30 · answer #1 · answered by psychgrad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I try to answer this sort of question. I feel I have some special insight into this and might help someone. Being that the web is essentially anonymous I feel free to discuss the real me. To that end I offer the following:
Most people with suicidal tendencies just hurt. It may be physical pain, emotional pain, psychological pain, it may be real or imagined but regardless, it hurts. After years of fighting this pain with medication or will power or anything else, they simply give up. At that point death seems a very plausible means of ending the pain.
I know, I have been there. At this moment I am fine but tomorrow I might be suicidal. I have done all the therapy, all the meds, and all the other stuff. All it did was make things worse because all I was doing was smiling and lying to people around me. It was better for them but I felt like a door mat. So I stopped. I did learn the reason for my depression, I just can't seem to do anything about it.
2007-01-14 11:10:45 · answer #2 · answered by gimpalomg 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SUICIDE PREVENTION
Suicide & Crisis Hotline 1-800-999-9999 Help for Troubled Teens
National Hope Line Network 1-800-784-2433 Suicide Prevention
2007-01-16 02:23:22 · answer #3 · answered by The Notorious Doctor Zoom Zoom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emotional problems. Many men commit suicide because, no matter what they do, their ex-wives never stop harassing them. Movie stars and/or rock stars (like Kurt Cobain) commit suicide because they have no real friends. The vast majority of people who commit suicide have no money problems.
2007-01-14 09:34:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anpadh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably finances, they say money is the root of all evil.....But true ignorance is the real reason. People commit suicide because they don't see anyway of fixing their problem, when there are always places to go and people to talk to about EVERYTHING.
2007-01-14 09:27:46 · answer #5 · answered by Westi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I think about 1/3 is because of drugs. But then depression defines it all too, and then it's insecurity how lonely they feel and how no one in the worlds cares about or loves them.
2007-01-14 11:46:25 · answer #6 · answered by Banana Hero [sic] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think its always planned and most people committee suicide around 2 in the morning so I'm told, i think from what i know they usually have a calmness about them before and have had a last attempt at trying to sort there life out and feel they have failed
2007-01-14 10:00:50 · answer #7 · answered by just_julie_uk_ok 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably all of thee above, including a weak mind.
2007-01-14 09:37:12 · answer #8 · answered by JC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would definitely vote for money problems.. and a close second would be relationship problems.
2007-01-14 09:30:39 · answer #9 · answered by Tink 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Negative thinking.
2007-01-14 09:33:36 · answer #10 · answered by Leopold 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋