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suicidal

adjective as in liable to kill oneself

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Neuroscientists from Columbia University and McGill University have identified a brain chemical that appears to drive depression and suicidal thinking in individuals who faced trauma or hardship during childhood.

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“I was seriously suicidal. I was seriously going to end it.”

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By examining symptom-level data, the team found that patients taking sertraline experienced measurable improvements in low mood and suicidal thoughts within two weeks.

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She says the messages were romantic and explicit, and, in her view, caused Sewell's death by encouraging suicidal thoughts and asking him to "come home to me".

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Amid the wounded, the amputees, the disfigured and suicidal, overworked medics, orderlies, doctors and nurses do their best to save lives and what is left of bodies and minds.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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