concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: psychache

emotion
type: Concept
narrower: psychache

psychache
type: Concept
broader: emotion
definition: Psychache, a concept created by Edwin S. Shneidman and fully developed in the 1990s, refers to unbearable psychological pain most often found in suicidal individuals. The term comprehends the hurt, anguish, or ache that takes hold in the mind; the pain of excessively felt shame, guilt, fear, anxiety, loneliness, angst, dread of growing old or of dying badly. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Psychache]
related: suicide

suicide
type: Concept