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Definition of ideation
: the capacity for or the act of forming or entertaining ideas suicidal ideation
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Examples of ideation in a Sentence
caregivers are trained to watch for signs of depression and suicidal ideation—some patients are likely to put their fantasies to action
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Note: There is some discussion of suicide and suicidal ideation.
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Patients with opioid addiction last year were eight times more likely than people without addiction to have alcoholism, nearly seven times as likely to have suicidal ideation and more than twice as likely to suffer from depression.
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In Mandel’s perfect world, ketamine would be FDA approved to treat depression and suicide ideation.
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The next session will be a three-hour ideation bootcamp on June 13 in conference rooms at Golden Pacific Bank, 980 Ninth St. in Sacramento.
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But Randall Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel has admitted 47 patients for mental health crises — many of them suicide attempts or ideation — between April 11 and May 1, a 40 percent increase from April 2016, a spokeswoman said.
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Research has shown that excessive media coverage of suicides of celebrity figures actually has led to an increase in suicide attempts and ideation.
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Also commendable was the entrepreneurial thinking and the team approach to ideation.
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There are two specific competitions: one for ideation and another for architecture.
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First Known Use of ideation
1818
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ideation
playMedical Definition of ideation
: the capacity for or the act of forming or entertaining ideas suicidal ideation
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