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The aims of this study were to test, via an online survey, whether TPD level III disintegrative \u2018dynamisms\u2019 were associated with the retrospective behaviours, emotions, or thoughts of study participants with(out) suicide lived experience. Two Kruskal-Wallis median tests showed that disintegrative \u2018dynamisms\u2019 were (a) significantly higher in participants with suicide lived experience and (b) were higher in persons supported pharmacologically for their mental health. To investigate (a) the \u2018dynamisms\u2019 themselves, (b) their location (i.e., behaviour, thoughts or emotions) and how far in the past they occurred (months or years), a PERMANOVAs and non-metric multi-dimensional scaling (nMDS) based on Euclidean distances were carried out. Those multivariate analyses showed that the different level III \u2018dynamisms\u2019 were statistically different to each other and therefore not interchangeable. The location of \u2018dynamisms\u2019 mattered, and participants scored them differently for behaviour, thoughts and emotions. Unlike other \u2018dynamisms\u2019, \u2018shame\u2019 and \u2018guilt\u2019 elicited the same responses from participants whether the \u2018dynamisms\u2019 were months or years in the past, suggesting that those two \u2018dynamisms\u2019 may be the best candidates for counsellors to use to address disintegration and suicide prevention with their patients. 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