
hans0solo
Member
- Dec 10, 2021
- 75
as someone who is part of the critical mental health community, many previous comments resonate. the hotlines are not meant to deal with all comers. those who call are being given a chance to disengage and have some active listening from a mostly scripted person with the possibility of an 'active rescue' (police). Some people will find it 'just enough' to give them that space to avoid an impulise act. as someone who uses my sucidiality in my job, I have talked to people about our shared experiences. This is not what hotlines do. If you wanted someone like me, you'd called a 'warmline'. There you'd get people who deal with various mental illnesses rather than people who don't know bipolar mania from deep trauma. As people might be alluding to, many people are suicidal because of long standing issues in their life or in their immediate situation: poverty, abuse, trauma, feeling othered, dealing with the aftermath of rape/violence, dealing with the death of a loved one, a lifelong feeling of failure. Many of these require federal/state/county responses that go beyond a few minutes of empathy. More places for survivors of DV/IPV would help. Better labor laws. More unions. Higher wages. more affordable rents. Dealing with toxic masculinity. Free health care. A society that isn't sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, classist, ageist, ableist, lookist, fatphobic, whorephobic. Our society fails kids. They don't have many options to deal with toxic parents but some counseling or foster care. Woman stay in abusive situations because of lack of resources and the kids suffer. Woman are raped and never get any support, counseling and the perp goes unpunished. There is a useful place to get support but its still too new: https://alt2su-nsw.net/