/dep/ - Depression

>>308694
The couple of times I used them, they were indeed pretty useless. I'm not sure what a better alternative would be, though. Perhaps therapy, but that has also been useless for me so far.

>>308694
>>308695
what do they say? things like "nooo donnt kys, think about your love ones" something like that??

they exist so you can calm down enough to not kill yourself, it's obviously not supposed to actually fix any of your problems. it takes a lot of willpower to actually go through with it and they figured out that someone listening to you whine on the phone is often enough to bring you down below the line, still feeling like shit, just emotionally exhausted enough that you won't do it right away. you could still kill yourself the next day or whenever shit piles up enough to push you pass the line. it's funny, no one cares that you're suffering, as long as you're alive, but killing yourself is problematic. they prolong your suffering, if you feel you're at the point where you can do it, you should just do it.

i never called them because i have my loving caring mom who would put me through suffering cosmically disproportionate to fear of death if i did that

Be careful, they might call the police on you and activate psychiatric services.


Also, they are fundamentally wrong, a graceful exit should be a human right.

I called one when I was having a panic attack and they told me they were running out of time for the call and had to hang up on me.

>>308706
>running out of time for the call and had to hang up on me.
whao…truely useless. what a joke

>>308694
Do not do this, they will rat you out and send cops to your house. Also one time they gave me the number to a sex hotline, I think the operator was fucking with me kek.

I don't use them because I suspect if they think you will attempt right now they send the cops or emergency psychiatric services.
Not gonna risk an involuntary hold just to talk with someone.

>>308714
>>308709
IIRC those suicide hotlines used to exist back in the payphone days.

Too bad you cannot realistically find a payphone these days but some are still out there

>>308714
They only exist as a weapon to screen out desperate people who could do unpredictable harm to the owning class.

The intent was never to help you. As someone macabrely described above, they will even hang up on you right as you are about to end your life once their 12 minute allocation for you is used up.

The only way they will stay on the line longer is if they suspect you might lash out against property or third parties so they can report you, or in extreme cases hold you on the line long enough so you can be triangulated, geolocated and swatted.

>>308731
I know they were dirty and expensive but payphones strangely seem to have soul and character to me. Smartphones are so boring.

no they suck, i called one once and they sent the cops to my house and they drove me to the psych ward.

Its pretty useless

The queues are always stupidly long too, i have sometimes had to wait hours just for some miserable lady to pick up and give me "motivational poster" ass advice