The common stimulus for suicide is unendurable psychological pain. Faced with intolerable emotion and unacceptable anguish, people will sometimes opt for a cessation of consciousness. The core ambivalence in suicide reflects the conflict between survival and unbearable stress. The common stressor in suicide is frustrated psychological needs. Suicides are born, negatively, out of needs.
Most suicides represent combinations of various needs.
The common purpose of suicide is to seek a solution. Suicide is not a random act. It is a way out of a problem, dilemma, or crisis. It is important to view each suicidal act as an urgently felt effort to answer a question, to resolve an issue, to solve a problem. The common emotions in suicide are hopelessness and helplessness.