suicidality
Thoughts of self-harm
Suicidality refers to thoughts, behaviors, or risk related to suicide—the clinical umbrella term for the spectrum from passive ideation to active planning to attempts.
Medical and mental health professionals use it to discuss a patient's overall suicide risk: The medication's label warns of increased suicidality in adolescents.
We need to assess her suicidality before discharge.
State without hope
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- worthlessnessLack of any value
desperation · suffering · darkness · numbness · pain · torment · isolation · alienation
Openness to harm
- predispositionInnate tendency toward something
- factorsContributors to a result
- indicatorsSigns that reveal status
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
screening · lethality · severity · escalation · access · means · impulsivity · contagion
Direct emergency phone connection
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- psychiatryMental health medicine
- medicationTherapeutic substance for illness
support · treatment · hospitalization · outreach · follow-up · caregivers · referral · 988
Serious sudden danger
- acuteIntensely severe or perceptive
- 911Crisis response number
- ambulanceEmergency medical transport
- ERAcute care department
hospitalization · triage · stabilization · overdose · attempt · lethal · imminent · code
Mental reflections
- urgesStrong inner drives
- intrusiveInvading others' privacy
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- planningArranging for future events
fixation · preoccupation · contemplation · passive · active · fleeting · persistent · recurrent
hopelessness
State without hope
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- emptinessAbsence of substance
worthlessness · desperation · suffering · darkness · numbness · pain · torment · isolation · alienation · trapped
vulnerability
Openness to harm
- predispositionInnate tendency toward something
- factorsContributors to a result
- indicatorsSigns that reveal status
assessment · screening · lethality · severity · escalation · access · means · impulsivity · contagion · triggers
hotline
Direct emergency phone connection
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- psychiatryMental health medicine
medication · support · treatment · hospitalization · outreach · follow-up · caregivers · referral · 988 · Samaritans
emergency
Serious sudden danger
ER · hospitalization · triage · stabilization · overdose · attempt · lethal · imminent · code · 5150
thoughts
Mental reflections
- urgesStrong inner drives
- intrusiveInvading others' privacy
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
planning · fixation · preoccupation · contemplation · passive · active · fleeting · persistent · recurrent · imagery
awareness
State of perceiving reality
- educationSystematic development of mind
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
- copingManaging under strain
advocacy · community · resources · upstream · connectedness · belonging · hope
suicidalitywill to live
Drive to keep existing
survival instinct · self-preservation · life-affirming · Eros · vitality
suicidalityflourishing
Prospering vigorously
thriving · mental wellness · psychological health · hope · hopefulness