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• Suicide Related Terms

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• Warning Sign

Overt indicator of suicidal RISK of an individual.



• Weather Forecast

Metaphor characterizing the fluctuating level of risk in a SUICIDAL INDIVIDUAL (Simon).



• Werther Effect

Concept of COMPLETION or SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR as a consequence of mass media accounts of SUICIDE (Phillips).



• What-Iffing Guilt

SUICIDE GRIEVER obsession with "What if...?" (they did or did not do something)(Wrobleski).



• Withdrawn Behavior

Apathetic and unresponsive emotional state.



• Working Through Grief

Purposeful individual effort to resolve personal grief.