“…First proposed by Shneidman, psychache refers to "the hurt, anguish, soreness, aching, psychological pain in the psyche, the mind" (Shneidman, 1993, p. 51). Shneidman suggests that the psychological pain he calls psychache arises when vital psychological needs are blocked or unmet and that if psychache becomes sufficiently severe, it can become "unbearable" or "intolerable," and in turn motivate suicide (Shneidman, 1993(Shneidman, , 1998. In Shneidman's words, "suicide occurs when the psychache is deemed by that person to be unbearable" (Shneidman, 1993, p. 51).…”