Posted by muffled on September 9, 2006, at 22:55:10
In reply to called a hotline, posted by wishingstar on September 9, 2006, at 22:41:11
> Oh boy. I just got off the phone with a man from the 1-800-suicide hotline. What an interesting (ha) experience.
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> I have never talked to someone who sounded so scripted in my life. Maybe because I'm trained in counseling (classes) or maybe just from being in therapy... but he was trying to reflect feelings (what I hear you saying is..) but he was so obvious about it. He'd use my exact words and state the obvious, over and over. It actually helped because I was able to laugh to myself on the other end of the line (silently) and that helped calm me down a little. But at the end, I could tell when our conversation was over... he started his line about "we're always here to help, please call back etc etc". Felt a little forced, but really we werent getting anywhere talking, so I guess its okay.
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> Has anyone else ever called a hotline before? Is this what your experience was like? It felt goofy and stupid.
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> The reason I called was to try to decide if I should take myself to the hospital or not. I still have no idea.
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>***Ya, I used to laugh cuz on my T's message when she is away, it says to call the local crisis line or goto emerg.
Half the time the crisis line is busy. And really, when you think of it, they are very limited in scope, really only generally speaking , good for crisis.
Ya, they saved me one time, was gonna do it. They called the cops.Why do you feel the need to goto hosp.?
I feel that way sometimes, but the hosps. in our system pretty much suck. The gov't stuff don't do much for ya.
Is it a better situ. there?
I think if you feel at risk of seriously harming yourself or others, then you need to go.
If you meds are way out of wack and you wanto restabilize or goto new ones in a safe place, then hosp. might be good.
So I'm not sure why you need to go?
If you feel strongly that you should, then perhaps you should listen to yourself and go.
If you admit voluntarily, you can leave any time.
I dunno if this is helpful at all :-(
Take special care,
Sorry your struggling, hard to think when you struggling isn't it?
Muffled
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