ideation

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Potential adverse events the companies knew about included depression, suicidal ideation, somnolence, edema, dizziness and confusion, documents from lawsuits show.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

Under Senate Bill 243, the operator of these platforms would also report the number of times a companion chatbot brought up suicide ideation or actions with a user, along with other requirements.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

Some say it overstates the relationship between ideation and action.

From Slate • May 20, 2024

Takubo, a physician, cited more than a dozen peer-reviewed studies showing a decrease in rates of suicide ideation and attempts among youth with severe gender dysphoria who had access to medication therapy.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024

In ideation the primal bases of thought must have been founded, ab initio, upon sensual perceptions; hence, must have been materialistic and natural.

From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by Weir, James