Treatment for Suicidal Ideation
Suicide is the act of taking your own life – a tragic reaction to seemingly unbearable pain or stress in your life. Understand that there is hope. You can overcome this by receiving effective treatment, and start enjoying your life again.
Common Causes of Suicidal Ideation
- Mental health conditions. In most cases, suicidal thoughts are linked to an underlying mental health issue that can be treated, once it’s discovered and properly diagnosed.
- Physical health conditions. In some cases, suicidal thinking may be linked to an underlying physical health problem, which must be discovered (or dismissed, in favor of another cause).
- Medications. In some people, certain prescription or over-the-counter drugs can cause suicidal feelings, which also must be evaluated and determined to be a cause, or dismissed in favor of another cause.
Suicidal Ideation Treatment
No two clients are alike in their own unique thoughts, feelings, history, or current situation. Because your suicidal thoughts and behavior are specific to your situation, our medical and clinical team will develop a treatment course that is tailored to your individual needs.
Diagnostics / Evaluation / Assessments
Our psychiatrist and his team will conduct a thorough mental assessment and evaluation to obtain a clear understanding of you and your situation, both current and historic. They will then be able to provide a proper diagnosis, which they will use as the foundational determiner of the treatment plan.
Medication Management
It is our hope and intention to cease as many medications as possible that are prescribed to you. Our Psychiatric team will survey the medications prescribed to you, to determine effectiveness, appropriateness, contraindications, and correct dosage. We clearly understand that most clients desire to cease taking medications for many reasons. We are sensitive to this desire. But, we also know from considerable experience treating clients that antidepressants, antipsychotic medications, anti-anxiety medications, and other medications can be highly effective, when prescribed appropriately, to help reduce the seemingly unbearable symptoms you are experiencing, which can help you feel appreciably less suicidal.
Ideally, once you’re stabilized, pharmacologically, you will be able to reduce the medications prescribed to you, over time. This is our hope.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy, also called psychological counseling or ‘talk therapy’, is a vital treatment to enable you to reduce your suicidal thoughts and ideas. With your primary therapist, you will explore and discuss the issues that make you feel suicidal, and you will learn skills to help you manage your feelings and emotions more effectively.
Our entire clinical team will develop a comprehensive treatment plan for you that will make primary therapy as the focus, combined with small group therapy, and proven adjunctive therapies and activities.
Family Support and Education
Having treated hundreds of clients, experience has taught us that your loved ones can be a source of vital support to you, and a source of conflict, too, in many instances. But, either way, when we involve them in your treatment, only with your complete consent and agreement, we can help them understand what you are experiencing and enlist their help – again, if you are wanting and willing to do so.
Get the help you need, today. You should have tremendous hope about a happy, stabile life – not despair. We can help you. We are ready to get you to a much better place, where you can begin your new life’s journey.
