attempted suicide in English

attempt to kill oneself, failed effort to kill oneself

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1. Hayward attempted suicide after the divorce.

2. We were shocked by his attempted suicide.

3. In living color, an exclusive coverage of an attempted suicide.

4. He attempted suicide by jumping off a cliff but survived.

5. Sometimes an attempted suicide is, in effect, a cry for help.

6. Some have attempted suicide; others have abused drugs or been sexually promiscuous.

7. During their marriage, Bombal began to suffer from depression, and attempted suicide.

8. Several people attempted suicide after hearing the news; most of them were rescued.

9. 3.2. ‘attempted suicide’ means an act to deliberately injure oneself resulting in serious injury.

10. The general practitioner has a potentially important role in the prevention of attempted suicide.

11. Some in South Africa, under the stress of adopting Western-style materialistic values, have attempted suicide.

12. Many people can relate to Diana’s feelings, and some of them have contemplated —or attempted— suicide.

13. Newson-Smith and Hirsch concluded that social workers could safely and reliably assess attempted suicide patients.

14. A few days short of his fifteenth birthday, Gert attempted suicide, cutting his wrist and jumping from a third-floor window.

15. One study found that 73% of patients with borderline personality disorder have attempted suicide, with the average patient having 3.4 attempts.

16. However, no one has seriously challenged the view that attempted suicide should be regarded as an inappropriate way of coping with problems.

17. Research by the Family Acceptance Project has demonstrated that "parental acceptance, and even neutrality, with regard to a child's sexual orientation" can bring down the attempted suicide rate.

18. Experts in the field have listed some common aftereffects of incest on girls, such as running away, drug and alcohol abuse, depression, attempted suicide, delinquency, promiscuity, sleep disturbances, and learning problems.