Suicide Hotlines....

[Cool Cat]

@Fadeaway yeah I find the samaritans email to be useless unless you are absolutely in 50000000% despair they have no interest.

 

[new gamma rays]

@Purplemunchkin I don't think it wasn't necessarily that they didn't want to handle a crisis, but the article wanted to highlight that they would much prefer reaching a person at a state where they are just weighed down by their problems and need to talk, than getting a call from one of the bridge phones where people threaten to jump :/

 

[KwanYingirl]

I have only called the Rape and Assault hotline approximately ten times. The women on the line have been where I sometimes implode to. I feel comfort talking to them. I have many traumas and I just ruminate, ruminate, ruminate. I am definitely going to tanning this weekend and buying vitamin D. Even though many years have passed since my CSA and domestic violence at home, I am treated as if I'm having an acute reaction. I keep their number in my phone.!

 

[Broken Dave]

I've contemplated calling the crisis hotline more than a few times; the last thing that I need is the police showing up at my door to put me on a 72 hour hold. Not only would the 72 hour hold not help, my dog...my only real source of comfort would have no one to take care of him during the hold. The last time I was honest with my doctor basically it was a "I could go willingly or they will intervene"

The last thing I want is to check the box on certain paperwork that says "Have you ever been involuntary hospitalized due to a mental condition"

I told my doctor I think about suicide everyday, and that I have 3 different plans...didn't seem to matter than I said I had no intention of acting on the plans anytime in the near future.

 

[Caroline greenlaw]

There is also "breathing space" I'm not sure if they are based in the whole of the uk or just Scotland, I did contact them once, during what seemed like a major crisis, it felt like a huge relief to get my concerns heard and being totally anonymous reduces the sense of shame that goes hand in hand . Like the Samaritans they don't have the power to solve all your problems, but they listen and ask questions while you reduce your feelings of total despair and hopelessness,

 

[digger]

In Ireland, console have a 24/7 helpline open all year round including holidays
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(I thought they had got their UK line up and running too, but it looks like that's not going go be till next year)

 

[AngelKeeperJ]

Thank you, (((Lion)))!!! You are so good at thinking of others,

 

[StellaBlue]

I've contemplated calling the crisis hotline more than a few times; the last thing that I need is the police showing up at my door to put me on a 72 hour hold.

This happened to me...twice. The first time, I wasn't taken in. The second time, the police came and left, but the "counselor" swore out an affidavit and the next day, the police showed up at my work and took me in (in handcuffs - claiming it was protocol). I was "incarcerated" for almost a week (the length of time was due to "staff" issues - not my mental state). I am still trying to "process" the trauma of it all.

I accept responsibility for initiating the situation but not for the cluster f**K that happened afterwards...and I will never call a hotline again.

 

[new gamma rays]

Were you committed involuntarily? I won't even begin with my experience with involuntary commitment. That is my fear of calling the actual crisis line, because the one time they did come - and I called them on my own, and they decided to send a team out - they almost forced me to go to the hospital even though it was a fairly calm conversation up until the point they asked me to rate my suicidal feelings. They were more an 8, but I've been through too many powerless situations, so I said 7, but even with that they were pretty serious about me going to a hospital an hour away on the other side of town. I basically had to plead my case in front of my parents and them to give me 24 hours to think about it (because my parents were for it, and through messed up circumstance,i.e. my experience with involuntary system they were my guardians - and they told me they had to come back. They came back the next day and I forget even what I said, but all I was worried about was not being forced to go to the hospital and I didn't end up going.

I felt a little bit betrayed though, because a year earlier a crisis team had come out and they were very grounded and helpful - maybe because I still had a state agency I was working with, but it is a strange situation. The crisis lines are only helpful if you know how to get help over the phone, and the crisis teams don't always sit down with you to talk things out and 'stabilize' you in the home.

 

[Broken Dave]

This happened to me...twice. The first time, I wasn't taken in. The second time, the police came and left, but the "counselor" swore out an affidavit and the next day, the police showed up at my work and took me in (in handcuffs - claiming it was protocol).

How did they even track you down? I need to get a prepaid cell for reasons like this!

 

[Cool Cat]

Woah, in Ireland they wouldnt go out to 'get you' that sounds crazy!!! The worst they'd do is ask you to go to hospital

 

[Purplemunchkin]

Hubby has access to a 'crisis team', but that is because he is a patient of the psychiatric team. If he called them they would have the ability to have him admitted, by force if they chose.

The anonymous support lines however don't trace the calls, so don't know who or where you are.