Have you ever called a crisis hotline?

[Tautochrome]

I wanted to, more out of curiosity than any need for a listener, but preferred to do this anonymously via chat. None were available in my country.

 

[snooze]

Idk why but i always hesitated to do so. Ig I'm just scared if someone i knew found out i did call one since it would just attract attention which is the last thing i need right now.

 

[otoyikim]

Turkey doesn't have a suicide hotline but i did arrange an emergency meeting with my shrink

She was helpful but she got busy again so sadly it didn't work out the way i wanted it to.

 

[wordsoutb4sumnelsin]

Fascinating... Well ironically (a word to use I guess) this dummy who became a therapist is seeking to feel brave enough to end with clients and refer them out. Even take the time to help them seek/call new therapists, EVEN try to take some time after that before ctb, to try to avoid them finding out, or if they do, it has been more time, so hopefully more ok... I feel so terrified of having to act and lie about moving out of the country, and being excited about it.
Again, all to try to ease things for others. Give more time for family to think I decided to stick around. I "got over shit". Also weird to be planning that once I stop having an income, money in the bank will become an inherent timer.

Been terrified as hell of wellness checking, etc. since, with what I felt was amazing counseling education that made me want to be an honest human, I couldn't help but be at least somewhat honest with fam, and got my dad to ask for my gun, that none of them even knew I had (bought at 18 or 21 or whatever and now im mid-30s). My dumbass literally only even TOLD them about having a gun to try to calm them due to the fact that "I could have" (have been able to technically, tho felt too low caliber) and obviously still haven't...

Anyways, long story to say, lol fuck no to calling a hotline. I feel bad for blindly having been exclusively pro-life and pushing them in the past. Even writing in here at all scares me tho. But I DO still need some connection due to still needing to be a damn living being for now... Just hoping I can be brave and get the ball rolling with clients on "moving"... They just won't know where I'm truly excited to go

 

[dying2026]

No. My existence is one big crisis really. I'm used to how I feel I don't become overwhelmed. I don't really understand suicide hotlines or crisis hotlines. It seems so scripted and fake. It's probably the same platitudes I've heard many times before. I would never call them.

 

[Lfsn_kivacs-rei]

I've called many times - all they care about is stopping you from ctb immediately, there's no solving of problems, and my problems can't be solved anyway. I've also done the training years ago through work in my country (Australia) and it's just about creating immediate safety plans, if you're lucky. I've been in therapy since I was 11 (now 37), been on many medications, different jobs, different places, always physically and mentally unwell, I've always wanted to out. Life just ain't for me. Very ready to ctb.

 

[no mas]

Hotline in my country is only available on weekdays 10am-8pm lmaoo it's like we're supposed to suck it up and die if we're suicidal on a sunday night.

I haven't called, but ik someone who has. Horrible experience. They almost never pick up. If they somehow pick up, they give you bs like "think about your parents" "you don't even have problems it's all in your head." Technically, they do prevent suicides - by ragebait.

Pro lifers LOVE to parade with their "get help" and take what they believe is the moral high ground. They just like to jerk off their egos believing they saved someones life by copy pasting a worthless string of numbers.

That's a lot like a gambling problem hotlne (800)ADMITIT that's a couple lines of print located in a casino itself, or in their Advertisement somewhere in infinitesimally small print, because they have to show that they 'care'...lol. The gaming commission (Nevada) is self-supported by its member casinos and its officials are like hand picked by them (re. the movie Casino)...talk about a circle jerk. It's a bad joke that's been going on for nearly a century.

 

[Defenestrator]

Yeah, there isn't a great deal of help in the UK. Which is funny considering how they're trying to make it as difficult for people to find information for themselves (attempting to block this site) - you hear people saying there's always help but there actually isn't. Anyone who lives in the UK and experiences a mental health crisis knows this fully well. You are alone.

I've spoken to the samaritans here (uk) they were well meaning but not much help

I meant to reply to your post in my previous response.

 

[Daphne]

I'd rather chat with AI. The person on the other end of those hotlines basically refers you to a mental health clinic or an ER. FME, they aren't there to listen to your story, just refer you elsewhere

 

[Terrible_Life]

I'm just really curious about this.

Yes biggest shit, waste of time. Pro lifer nonsense again and again, felt like a script they had there and would repeat the same shit.
The last one was funny told me oh i am sorry but shiiiit you're situation is absolutely shit , think of it this peaces of scum like that work there and get the responsibility to talk with very suicidal people. After that i saw it as comedy and just wanted to see how far they'd go with their bullshit….

 

[AR02]

I did once and it was insultingly bad. I was told to just do a hobby.

Similarly I called a therapy office when I was in a bad spot and they never called me back.

 

[SoulWhisperer]

The trend of this poll speaks for itself, I don't think it'd help me at all. What would a person on a call do to fix my life? Use voodoo magic?