Sometimes when I’m in a dark mood, I wonder: If I were to kill myself, would I fall into the flames of hell? Or should someone else burn for this crime against life: the friends who failed me, the ...

It is difficult to write an article about death. I find it even more difficult to write an article about death due to suicide. But given the rising suicide rates on our college campuses, it is a topic ...

Modern psychology extends this understanding through the “ psychache ” model, which suggests that unbearable psychological pain underpins acts of both self-destruction and outward violence. These ...

The idea that suicide is caused by psychological pain may seem self-evident, but recognizing this fact was once a departure for psychiatry. Depression and other psychiatric disorders—which are often ...