Discuss the intensiveness in suicidal counseling.
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‘No other branch of medicine would tell a patient with a life-threatening illness to come back in a week’. This is a quote from Patient A, a doctor who recovered and returned to practice after 15 years of suicidal depression, reflecting on her treatment by multiple colleagues. It prompts the question – could daily contact with suicidal patients significantly reduce the main cause of death and injury to Australians in their prime of life? This paper discusses intensive crisis intervention in acute life-threatening situations, designed to keep moribund patients alive, while simultaneous aggressive psychopharmacology is used to combat the underlying illness. Analogous to the use of two antibiotics or two anti-asthma medications simultaneously in life-threatening physical illnesses, why not begin with two antidepressants from the start of treatment in high-risk suicidal patients?