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A friendly reminder for those in the US: you can dial 988 for access to mental health resources.
As someone who has attempted suicide several times, let me just say that you’ve got nothing to lose by reaching out for help.
Some hotline resources for our international brothers and sisters (courtesy of Psychology Today):
Argentina Suicide Prevention Resources
Australia Suicide Prevention Resources
Austria Suicide Prevention Resources
Belgium Suicide Prevention Resources
Canada Suicide Prevention Resources
Chile Suicide Prevention Resources
Colombia Suicide Prevention Resources
Denmark Suicide Prevention Resources
France Suicide Prevention Resources
Germany Suicide Prevention Resources
Hong Kong Suicide Prevention Resources
Ireland Suicide Prevention Resources
Mexico Suicide Prevention Resources
Netherlands Suicide Prevention Resources
New Zealand Suicide Prevention Resources
Singapore Suicide Prevention Resources
South Africa Suicide Prevention Resources
Spain Suicide Prevention Resources
Sweden Suicide Prevention Resources
Switzerland Suicide Prevention Resources
United Kingdom Suicide Prevention Resources
United States Suicide Prevention Resources
For Germany, you can add 116 117, the hotline for emergency medical counselling. Some people might feel hesitant to call 112, and 116 117 is easier to remember than 0800 1110111 as well as being generally helpful to remember.
Done. Thanks for the suggestion.
the Netherlands
Dial 0800-0113 for suicide prevention hotline https://www.113.nl/ Online chat https://www.113.nl/chatten
Awesome, just added it! Thanks!
TIL there's probably no character limit on Lemmy.
That is some valuable resources there. Honestly, maybe you should make this into a post of its own so more people can see it. But either way, thank you!!!
Except for when they decide you are at risk and send an ambulance to take you to a hospital for a mental evaluation which consists of 5 flavors of questions that all boil down to "are you sad?". Then, after the hold, you're hit with a multi-thousand dollar ambulance and hospital bill that you have to take care of ON TOP of whatever issues were leading you to consider suicide.
Unless I'm mistaken, they can only put you on a 72-hour hold if they deem you are threat to yourself and others. In other words, don't ever tell them you're going to kill yourself; just that you have thoughts about killing yourself.
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You make an excellent point. So I went out and found a guide for each US state. Thanks!
100% this, they're not going to take you away and put you in a padded cell because you're depressed.
If you're in-crisis, talk to someone. If you've ever made a plan, remove the things involved in that plan (gun, razor, drugs, etc). The goal is to remove the things that might let you act too rashly or quickly. Bad phases come and go, it's important to remember that the bad will end and try to figure out ways to manage your depression when it escalates.
If this is something that happened to you then I'm sorry for your experience, especially if it dissuaded you from seeking help in the future. The health care system in the us is disgraceful.
As someone who hasn’t ever contemplated suicide but has always been curious about the hotlines, do they just sort of… Tell you not to?
Maybe it’s the autism talking, but if I was in the middle of a mental health crisis, platitudes would sound (at best) dishonest or (at worst) outright condescending. And unless they can point me to some sort of mental healthcare option that I hadn’t already considered/didn’t know about, then it doesn’t sound like they’d be much help. Like if they tell you to go check yourself into a ward, that doesn’t seem like it’d be effective for someone who had already considered and dismissed the idea.
I've never called myself but I've had a friend who did and they told me the person on the other line was really good at talking to her and that alone improved the situation
Sometimes all a person needs is to talk to someone who gives a fuck. Those lines are staffed by unpaid volunteers, they're not doing it for money.