Have you ever called a crisis hotline?

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I'm just really curious about this.

 

[Macedonian1987]

My country (north macedonia) doesn't even have a suicide hotline . If it had one I would never call it because they cannot fix what's wrong with me and what caused me to be suicidal in the first place.

Here is a fun fact about my country, Macedonia: Up until 10 to 15 years ago, the three-digit number now used by the USA's suicide hotline, 988, was used for decades here as the phone directory number. It has since been changed to 188

 

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I completely forgot to add that option, my bad. It's fixed now.

 

[NutOrat]

My country (north macedonia) doesn't even have a suicide hotline . If it had one I would never call it because they cannot fix what's wrong with me and what caused me to be suicidal in the first place.

Here is a fun fact about my country, Macedonia: Up until 10 to 15 years ago, the three-digit number now used by the USA's suicide hotline, 988, was used for decades here as the phone directory number. It has since been changed to 188

We have I think only two hotlines: one for victims of domestic abuse, the other is suicide prevention ONLY for children age 18 and below. If you're older, get fucked :)

 

[shampoo sniffer]

No, I never will.

 

[itsgone2]

12 votes in and no one has found it helpful.

 

[NoHorizon]

No, I don't think it would help me. I've had plenty of inbound "checking in" calls from MH and crisis teams but none of them have been much use.

 

[Grog]

I called the suicide hotline. I could tell the person on the other end was just reading from a script. Then they said they were going to call me back the next day and the day after that to check on me — but they never did call back. It was a complete waste of time.

 

[BrainSplatter]

on the rare time I've called no one ever answers there's always a 1 hour wait like there's only so long I can wait I'm in crisis ffs you expect me to stay on the phone?? Fuck no!! It's the stupid automated voice that gets me "your call is important to us please stay on the line" wtf is that about if that was true maybe actually answer the phone??

 

[nobodycaresaboutme]

While in my country forcible hospitalization just by calling a hotline hardly happens, I think calling hotlines will end up in a waste of time. They are nothing more than amateurs due to a lack of funding. I hate Societies aren't going to put money to the education and training for the staffs even though people tell us not to CTB. So hotlines literally cheap band-aid. It'd work for people with minor emotional damage. But we obviously have severe crises beyond that. It's only recommendable when you're desparate to talk someone even if you know it solve nothing and you hate AI chatbots.

 

[AS.star]

I did call the hotline (I'm from Poland), and I can say from my experience for anyone curious about how it looks like that the operator that picked up the call was full of empathy and their voice was warm. They listened and showed interest by asking questions, told me to seek help (like psychiatrist and psychologist) and to always call when I need to vent or an advise.
Did it help me? No + I was stressed and anxious the whole call cause of the severe social anxiety, but what I want to state is that it wasn't a bad experience - I would even say that it was warm.

 

[Hollowman]

No, that would be pointless. My problems can't be talked away.

 

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on the rare time I've called no one ever answers there's always a 1 hour wait like there's only so long I can wait I'm in crisis ffs you expect me to stay on the phone?? Fuck no!! It's the stupid automated voice that gets me "your call is important to us please stay on the line" wtf is that about if that was true maybe actually answer the phone??

I imagined the wait times would be a thing, but not to the point where no one actually answers. What a joke.