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For those having trouble, remember there are reasons to keep going. You can reach the National Suicide Prevention Hotline 24/7/365 at: 1-800-273-8255
by berbec 7y ago
For those having trouble, remember there are reasons to keep going. You can reach the National Suicide Prevention Hotline 24/7/365 at:
1-800-273-8255
- mieseratte 7y agoStrange question, but what does the hotline actually do? Supposing you call them with serious suicidal ideation, do they dispatch police? Direct you to a shrink? Just talk?
- SolaceQuantum 7y agoUnder the understanding that suicide is an act of spontaneity and not always highly determined, a hotline gives the amount of time necessary for an acute urge to pass. Depending on the source, it also informs people where and how to get help. Of course, much of the effects relies on the skill of the folk on the other line. But it is always extremely important to have something, anything, interrupt what is often a compulsion that passes.
- ClassyJacket 7y agoThey distract you just long enough that the feeling subsides slightly .
- qwsxyh 7y agoSuicide hotlines are nearly completely useless to most people. I don't know why people still constantly share them.
- farisjarrah 7y agoDo you have any sources or facts to back up your claim? Genuinely interested if there are statistics around this.
- Insanity 7y agoI also wonder if they get a lot of calls. If suicide is an act of spontaneity, do people stop to think "I should call a hotline"?