use the phrase “suicide spectrum” because (similar to the way categorical models of mental disorders are an oversimplification of a person’s contextual, ever-changing psychological experience) a person is not simply “suicidal or not suicidal.” For example, some people are parasuicidal, which is defined by the American Psychological Association as exhibiting “a range of behaviors involving deliberate self-harm that may or may not be intended to result in death.”[21]
