suicide
type: Concept

psychache
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
broader: emotion
type: Concept

emotion
type: Concept
narrower: psychache

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: psychache