What does subsuicidal mean?
Subsuicidal means self-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
self-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour.
The most widely used terms may be arrayed along a continuum: committed suicide, attempted suicide, suicidal gestures, suicidal threats, suicidal ideation, and subsuicidal phenomena.
Menninger (1938) also describes forms of subsuicidal phenomena: (1) chronic suicide includes asceticism, martyrdom, addiction, invalidism, and psychosis; (2) focal suicide involves acts of self-mutilation, malingering, polysurgery, […]
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Subsuicidal means self-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour.
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The most widely used terms may be arrayed along a continuum: committed suicide, attempted suicide, suicidal gestures, suicidal threats, suicidal ideation, and subsuicidal phenomena.
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