Q. How exactly do you know if you are suicidal? You can’t try to kill yourself. But is it considered being suicidal if you think about it a lot, or have almost cut yourself but not gone through with it And also is it a disorder to cut yourself slightly or tear up parts of your skin on your wrist to make it look like you committed suicide just to get attention. Or is that just self mutilation?
A. What you described is self-mutilation.
Suicidal thoughts are common. When the individual feels the pain is more than he/she can stand and there is no hope for the future, the suicide risk goes way up. The answer there is that genuine hope does indeed exist.