suicidal
Dangerously despairing inside
Suicidal describes someone inclined toward or at risk of taking their own life: She was hospitalized after expressing suicidal thoughts.
Extended uses describe actions recklessly self-destructive or certain to fail disastrously: Attacking without reinforcements would be suicidal.
The word carries serious weight in clinical contexts but functions as hyperbole in casual speech: Career suicide, political suicide.
State without hope
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- desperationUtter loss of hope
nihilism · futility · worthlessness · emptiness · darkness · abyss · unbearable · inescapable
Serious sudden danger
- hotlineDirect emergency phone connection
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- hospitalizationFormal entry into medical care
- stabilizationProcess of becoming steady
988 · lifeline · psychiatric · acute · distress · prevention · support · triage
Openness to harm
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
- factorsContributors to a result
- protectiveServing to guard
- warningAlert about danger
prevention · screening · lethality · attempt · history · prior · familial · contagion
One still alive after
- bereavedDeprived by death
- lossBeing without something
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- guiltMoral self-reproach
trauma · memorial · contagion · copycat · stigma · silence · disclosure · note
Harmful excess intake
- hangingExecution by noose
- jumpingPropelling oneself airborne
- drowningDeath by water inhalation
- asphyxiationDeath from oxygen loss
firearm · poisoning · ligature · cutting · means · lethal · attempt · survivable
Mental reflections
- urgesStrong inner drives
- intrusiveInvading others' privacy
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- passiveNot actively participating
active · plan · intent · fixation · preoccupation · rumination · obsessive · persistent
hopelessness
State without hope
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
desperation · nihilism · futility · worthlessness · emptiness · darkness · abyss · unbearable · inescapable · trapped
emergency
Serious sudden danger
- hotlineDirect emergency phone connection
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- hospitalizationFormal entry into medical care
stabilization · 988 · lifeline · psychiatric · acute · distress · prevention · support · triage · evaluation
vulnerability
Openness to harm
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
- factorsContributors to a result
- protectiveServing to guard
warning · prevention · screening · lethality · attempt · history · prior · familial · contagion · cluster
survivor
One still alive after
guilt · trauma · memorial · contagion · copycat · stigma · silence · disclosure · note · legacy
overdose
Harmful excess intake
asphyxiation · firearm · poisoning · ligature · cutting · means · lethal · attempt · survivable · impulsive
thoughts
Mental reflections
- urgesStrong inner drives
- intrusiveInvading others' privacy
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
passive · active · plan · intent · fixation · preoccupation · rumination · obsessive · persistent · fleeting
- mental healthpsychiatry, psychotherapy, mental illness, psychiatrist, therapist
- harmful copingself-harm, self-injury, self-sabotage, self-destruction, self-medication
- mental statesknowledge, conscious, mood, anxious, memory
- deathlydead, deadly, deathly, deceased, dying
suicidallife-affirming
Celebrating the value of existence
vital · will to live · living · alive · pro-life
- commit suicideIntentionally end one's life
- suicidal thoughtsContemplation of ending oneself
- suicide watchObservation preventing self-harm
- suicide bombSelf-destroying explosive device
- suicide missionAssignment with fatal certainty
- career suicideAct ending one's profession
suicide, suicides, suicided, suicidally, assisted suicide, suicidal ideation, suicide note, suicidality