Suicidal individuals are left to contend with pain alone. Severe pain has the same impact both physically and psychologically. Anxiety, sleeplessness, fatigue, depression, and anger set in. These modify and aggravate the pain . They elicit changes that increase stress which further drives pain.
Severe pain is destructive.
It generates fear and powerlessness. It creates a sense of profound isolation. Any person has the potential to become suicidal when confronted with a situation that produces emotional pain and is believed to be inescapable, interminable, and intolerable. Suffering is where pain and suicide meet. Suicidal individuals and those with chronic pain share the same experience.