subsuicidal

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ suicidal

Adjective

subsuicidal (not comparable)

1. self-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour
   • 1971, Bulletin of Suicidology, number 8, page 12:

     The most widely used terms may be arrayed along a continuum: committed suicide, attempted suicide, suicidal gestures, suicidal threats, suicidal ideation, and subsuicidal phenomena.

   • 1986, William W. Meissner, Psychotherapy and the paranoid process, page 302:

     Menninger (1938) also describes forms of subsuicidal phenomena: (1) chronic suicide includes asceticism, martyrdom, addiction, invalidism, and psychosis; (2) focal suicide involves acts of self-mutilation, malingering, polysurgery, […]