This chapter draws analogies between the classical and recent notions on psychosocial crisis and the traditional rites of transition by exploring the connections between the two seminal theories on identity transformations. This chapter explores the intersubjective and personal-level aspects of the experience, establishing the theoretical links between notions on entrapment as an explanatory principle for suicide as the result of ultimate constriction and symbol misuse during a life transition. These experiences constitute an aborted rite in the maximally liminal hotspot of the presuicidal syndrome. Explorations of brief excerpts of the conversations of an anonymous helpline underpin and illuminate the theoretical connections. The empirical analysis focuses on procedural contents, metaphor use, and rapid alterations in the temporal perspectives, characteristic of trauma communication.