81 Suicidal ideation may be assigned as a principal diagnosis if the clinician has confirmed that there is no underlying mental disorder. R45.
Suicidal Ideation means having serious thoughts about taking your own life. There are two types of suicidal ideation, passive and active. Passive suicidal ideation​occurs when you wish you were dead or that you could die, but you don't actually have plans of harming yourself or attempting suicide.
Suicidal ideation is any self-reported thoughts of engaging in suicide-related behavior. Subtypes of suicide-related ideations depend on the presence or absence of suicidal intent. To have suicidal intent is to have suicide or deliberate self-killing as one's purpose.
Settings: In-patient and out- patient settings The Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSI; Beck & Steer, 1991) is a 21-item self-report instrument for detecting and measuring the current intensity of the patients' specific attitudes, behaviors, and plans to commit suicide during the past week.
While many people learn to manage daily life with symptoms of depression, there is one that requires immediate attention — suicidal ideation. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States.