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  2. Suicide terminology - Wikipedia

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    Suicide related behavior is a self-inflicted, potentially injurious behavior for which there is evidence either that: (a) the person wished to use the appearance of intending to kill themselves in order to attain some other end; or (b) the person intended at some undetermined or some known degree to kill themselves. [4]

  3. Self-destructive behavior - Wikipedia

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    Self-destructive behavior is any behavior that is harmful or potentially harmful towards the person who engages in the behavior. Self-destructive behaviors are considered to be on a continuum, with one extreme end of the scale being suicide. [1] Self-destructive actions may be deliberate, born of impulse, or developed as a habit.

  4. Suicide attempt - Wikipedia

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    Some suicide methods have higher rates of lethality than others. The use of firearms results in death 90% of the time. Wrist-slashing has a much lower lethality rate, comparatively. 75% of all suicide attempts are by drug overdose, a method that is often thwarted because the drug is nonlethal, or is used at a nonlethal dosage.

  5. Suicide crisis - Wikipedia

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    A suicide crisis, suicidal crisis or potential suicide is a situation in which a person is attempting to kill themselves or is seriously contemplating or planning to do so. It is considered by public safety authorities, medical practice, and emergency services to be a medical emergency , requiring immediate suicide intervention and emergency ...

  6. Self-harm - Wikipedia

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    Although self-harm is by definition non-suicidal, it may still be life-threatening. [6] People who do self-harm are more likely to die by suicide, [3] [7] and self-harm is found in 40–60% of suicides. [8] Still, only a minority of those who self-harm are suicidal. [9] [10] The desire to self-harm is a common symptom of some personality disorders.

  7. Suicide by jumping from height - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, jumper is a term used by the police and media organizations for a person who plans to fall or jump (or already has fallen or jumped) from a potentially deadly height, sometimes with the intention to die by suicide, at other times to escape conditions inside (e.g. a burning building). [33]

  8. Violence - Wikipedia

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    Violence is often defined as the use of physical force or power by humans to cause harm and degradation to other living beings, such as humiliation, pain, injury, disablement, damage to property and ultimately death, as well as destruction to a society's living environment.

  9. Psychological intervention - Wikipedia

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    Although showing significant efficacy in reducing acute symptoms of psychosis and its rate of occurrence, antipsychotics have a comparatively higher side effect profile to other psychotropic drugs, such as weight gain, movement disorders (dyskinesia), or, in rare cases, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, a severe and potentially fatal reaction to ...