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  • adjective Not suicidal.

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non- +‎ suicidal

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Examples

  • So-called nonsuicidal self-injury affects 14% to 24% of teens and young adults.

    Exercise Boosts Brain Power Ann Lukits 2011

  • As many as one in five young men and women are believed to have engaged at least once in what psychologists call nonsuicidal self-injury.

    NYT > Home Page By RONI CARYN RABIN 2011

  • That's why the working group behind the latest draft of the psychiatric community's diagnostic bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, wants to elevate cutting from a symptom to a disorder, which would be called nonsuicidal self-injury.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • That's why the working group behind the latest draft of the psychiatric community's diagnostic bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, wants to elevate cutting from a symptom to a disorder, which would be called nonsuicidal self-injury.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • That's why the working group behind the latest draft of the psychiatric community's diagnostic bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, wants to elevate cutting from a symptom to a disorder, which would be called nonsuicidal self-injury.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • That's why the working group behind the latest draft of the psychiatric community's diagnostic bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, wants to elevate cutting from a symptom to a disorder, which would be called nonsuicidal self-injury.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • They should test drugs specifically for antisuicidal effects and not assume that drugs that help nonsuicidal patients will have the same effects in suicidal ones.

    The Forgotten Patients 2010

  • They should test drugs specifically for antisuicidal effects and not assume that drugs that help nonsuicidal patients will have the same effects in suicidal ones.

    The Forgotten Patients 2010

  • Anne PeticolasAustin, TexasI am a 65-year-old practicing physician who has experienced several episodes of nonsuicidal depression.

    Angry Young Men From One Town 2008

  • Consistent with this explanation, all studies of suicide bombers indicate that they are significantly younger than not only the Muslim population in general but other (nonsuicidal) members of their own extreme political organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah.

    seven habits of ineffectual people 2008

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