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This section deals with both the subject of people who commit suicide and those that survive after taking an overdose or harming themselves (deliberate self-harm, DSH, previously known as parasuicide).
These two groups of people have rather different characteristics. he first group are more often male with a psychiatric illness. Typically they also plan their acts carefully, take steps to avoid detection, and use dangerous methods. Those in the DSH group more often are female, act impulsively, and in such a way as to be discovered. These differences will be discussed further later.
It is important to realise that despite these differences there is considerable overlap between the groups.
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