#crisis lines

[basemwnt]

LGBTQ+ INCLUSIVE CRISIS LINES:

Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386

or text START to 678-678 or online chat

Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860

Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: 988

[thatonebirdwrites]

I wanted to share this because people keep sharing crisis lines that will, without your consent, call the police if they decide you're a high enough risk. (Such as the National Suicide Prevention hotline). Calling the police often escalates a crisis and can get people killed. (Especially those in marginalized populations.) So here are helpful crisis lines that do not call the police.

These lines are USA and Canada-centric. If people know International lines that don't call police, feel free to add.

[chelledoggo]

GENUINE QUESTION: DO ANY OF THESE HOTLINES CALL THE POLICE ON CALLERS?

DON'T WORRY I AM NOT SUICIDAL

i'm trying to put together a list of resources for those who are struggling, but i don't want to accidentally put them in danger.

[jiraisupportgroup]

I hate to say this but on a serious note:

Please do not send photos of self-harm into the submissions box. This has happened twice now. I know you are hurting and want to reach out for help and I am glad you are trying to reach out for help but I cannot help you. I am not a crisis team, I am not a doctor, I am not a mental health professional.

If you are in the United States: Crisis Test Line - you can text them, call them, chat with them on computer, or use whatsapp. 988Lifeline - Crisis line, call or text 988, English or Spanish. The Trevor Project - Hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, call 866-488-7386, or text START to 678-678 Trans Lifeline - crisis intervention for trans individuals by trans individuals, call at 877-565-8860 - they are not available 24/7

If you are in Canada: Talk Suicide Canada - Suicide crisis helpline, call or text 988 English or French. Kids Help Phone - Support English and French. Call 800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 Trans Lifeline - crisis intervention for trans individuals by trans individuals, call at 877-565-8860 - they are not available 24/7

If you are in the UK: 111 Op 2 - National Health Services' First Response Service. Not yet available in all areas. National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK - Call 0800-689-5652 or 0800-689-0800 Silence of Suicide - Call 0808-115-1505. Not available 24/7 Shout - Text SHOUT to 85258. 24/7 text service for crises. For Countries not specifically stated: Wiki list of crisis lines Find a Helpline

I am also temporarily going to close the submissions box. Thank you guys for understanding.

[89amnesia]

it's been 30 years since grunge genius Kurt Cobain ended his life after years of struggling with severe depression, substance abuse and physical pain. depression knows no bounds and does not discriminate; millions of people suffer from it everyday. some of those people end it all too, feeling that they have no other option. but there ARE other options. I want to take this time to remind you all, you're never alone, and there *is* a purpose to your life. you are loved and wanted! here is a list of crisis hotlines from around the world if you feel that you need the help regardless of your location https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines

[jaejoongs-nipple-piercing]

I tried calling the suicide hotline after I lost my job in October just to get some advice and talk to someone-to vent and they left me on hold for 5+ minutes, then the person just goes “uh-huh, uh-huh, mhmm, yeah…” like they were eating delicious hot soup. The counselor I got later did the same thing. Like they were lucky I wasn’t standing on the edge of a cliff ready to jump off because neither of them was any help.

Please reblog, this is so important.

[panromanticturtle]

I just wanted to say no matter how STUPID you think things like Crisis lines are (Ex. Kids Help Phone)

They're not.

As someone who's used them before, I can say that they are not stupid

[aesops-boy]

“Don’t kill yourself! Don’t hurt yourself! But also we won’t help you unless you do. And we’re still gonna treat you like shit.”

[battling-my-demons]

I'm going to leave these here. Please get help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines

https://blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines/

https://findahelpline.com/

I appreciate the websites for those who need it.

[spookyjudgement]

Hey as someone who has worked for crisis lines this is borderline misinfo.

Crisis lines avoid calling the police AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

and they only reason they do so is because they are legally mandated to call if they know someone is at risk of hurting themselves or others. If they do nothing it is huge liability for them. Is it good? No, and I don't think it should happen at all, but unfortunately that is where we are.

CTL specifically requires 1. Wanting to kill yourself 2. A plan 3. The means to go through with that plan 4. A timeframe and EVEN AFTER YOU REACH THAT THRESHOLD THEY ONLY CALL THE COPS IF THEY CANNOT TALK YOU DOWN. If you have a vague idea and not a concrete plan, you do not meet that threshold. If you don't have a specific time in mind you do not meet that threshold. If you end the convo by saying hey i'm just gonna go to sleep i don't want to chat any more, you do not meet that threshold. If you agree to do some sort of self care or coping mechanism and come up with a plan, they will not call the cops.

So to reiterate, these lines are UNLIKELY to call the cops on you and there are concrete things you can say to more or less guarantee they won't.

Granted you may still not want to talk to them for this or another reason, and warmlines may be a better option esp if you just want someone to talk to for a while. That is your choice. Don't make it because you were ill-informed from the internet.

And personally? I would not recommend catholic confessional for shit unless you already know and are deeply familiar with and certain of the safety of the people around you. And even so many priests will in no way be able or willing to give you actual mental healthcare.

hey where’s that post about how it’s important to be aware before recommending/calling suicide hotlines that They Will Call The Cops On You. i have it saved somewhere but i can’t find it & i want to reblog it today For No Particular Reason

[captain-krow-drozdov]

Danny Is An Alternate Version Of Ra's Al Ghul And Flash Already Called Dibs On Adopting Him

Danny In All His Sleep Deprived Slightly Scuffed Up From A Fight Glory Is On His Way To Clockworks Tower To Hopefully Get A Nap And Maybe Some Homework Done When A Natural Portal Opens Up In Front Of Him And Proceeds To Unceremoniously Drop Him In The DC Verse Just Outside Of Central City Before Promptly Closing Leaving A Tired Danny Behind In A Run Down Abandoned Parking Lot.

It's Times Like This When Danny Regrets Putting Off Learning How To Make His Own Portals, Cause Now He Is Very Much Stuck For The Foreseeable Future And He Has No Idea Where Or When He Is. Luckily For Him However Central City Isn't Too Far Away, Unlucky For Him However Is That Once In The City He Realizes This Isn't His Dimension. He's Pretty Sure He'd Remember Something Called The Justice League.

So What Do You Do When Supernatural Bullshit Fails You? You Fall Back On Your Mad Scientist Roots And You Make A Portal Gun. So That's Exactly What Danny Plans To Do.

Unfortunately Staying Alive And Building Questionably Safe Portal Technology Requires Money And Supplies, So He Ends Up Wandering From City To City Doing Odd Jobs/Fixing Up Busted Tech For Cash Or Unwanted Electronics For His "Operation: Get Home" Needs. This Obviously Ends In A Few Superhero Encounter Shenanigans.

Though He Always Ends Up Back Near Central City, Both On The Off Chance The Natural Portal Will Open Up Again And Because Out Of All The Superheroes That Apparently Exist In This Universe The Speedsters Are His Favorite (Red Robin Is Solidly His Second Favorite Ever Since The Gotham Vigilante Gave Him A Large Coffee Filled With Enough Caffeine To Kill A Man).

Unbeknownst To Danny However Is That Every Hero/Vigilante He Has Encountered Has Come To At Least One Of The Following Conclusions; 1. Run Away Meta Who Is In Desperate Need Of A Good Meal/Adoption Bait. 2. Possibly Red Robin/Tim Drake Clone 3. A Good Kid But Could Possibly Be A Future Rouge If Left Unsupervised. 4. Did Bats Get A New Kid And Why Is He Here?

All Flash Knows Is That He Saw The Kid First And Therefore Has Dibs. Suck It Bruce.

Fast-forward A Few Months And Danny Gets Hurt During A Rogue Attack While Trying To Help Some Civilians Get To Safety (Old Hero Habits Die Hard (Ha Die Hard) And All That Jazz) And He Nopes Out Once Everyone Is Safe And When The Paramedics Are Busy With Other People Unaware He Left A Blood Sample Behind.

One DNA Test Brought To You By Paranoid Bat Concerns Of A Possible Red Robin Clone Later And They Find Out That Dannys DNA Matches One Ra's Al Ghul.

They Now Think Danny Is An Escaped Ra's Al Ghul Clone.

Memes For The Vibes:

[reasonsforhope]

People ask me sometimes how I'm so confident that we can beat climate change.

There are a lot of reasons, but here's a major one: it would take a really, really long time for Earth to genuinely become uninhabitable for humans.

Humans have, throughout history, carved out a living for themselves in some of the most harsh, uninhabitable corners of the world. The Arctic Circle. The Sahara. The peaks of the Himalayas. The densest, most tropical regions of the Amazon Rainforest. The Australian Outback. etc. etc.

Frankly, if there had been a land bridge to Antarctica, I'm pretty sure we would have been living there for thousands of years, too. And in fact, there are humans living in Antarctica now, albeit not permanently.

And now, we're not even facing down apocalypse, anymore. Here's a 2022 quote from the author of The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells, a leader on climate change and the furthest thing from a climate optimist:

"The most terrifying predictions [have been] made improbable by decarbonization and the most hopeful ones practically foreclosed by tragic delay. The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse. Over the last several months, I’ve had dozens of conversations — with climate scientists and economists and policymakers, advocates and activists and novelists and philosophers — about that new world and the ways we might conceptualize it. Perhaps the most capacious and galvanizing account is one I heard from Kate Marvel of NASA, a lead chapter author on the fifth National Climate Assessment: “The world will be what we make it.”" -David Wallace-Wells for the New York Times, October 26, 2022

If we can adapt to some of the harshest climates on the planet - if we could adapt to them thousands of years ago, without any hint of modern technology - then I have every faith that we can adjust to the world that is coming.

What matters now is how fast we can change, because there is a wide, wide gap between "climate apocalypse" and "no harm done." We've already passed no harm done; the climate disasters are here, and they've been here. People have died from climate disasters already, especially in the Global South, and that will keep happening.

But as long as we stay alive - as long as we keep each other alive - we will have centuries to fix the effects of climate change, as much as we possibly can.

And looking at how far we've come in the past two decades alone - in the past five years alone - I genuinely think it is inevitable that we will overcome climate change.

So, we're going to survive climate change, as a species.

What matters now is making sure that every possible individual human survives climate change as well.

What matters now is cutting emissions and reinventing the world as quickly as we possibly can.

What matters now is saving every life and livelihood and way of life that we possibly can.

[trans-axolotl]

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I don't have the fucking patience for this right now. normally I'm nicer on posts like these, but today I don't have that in me after reading your statement that it is "not evil of crisis lines to call the cops" and saying that you "don't regret a single one of those calls."

I think it's important to know that there are hotlines like Trans lifeline and Call Blackline that successfully operate without the cops, who are committing to providing support in crisis, even life threatening crisis, and that calling the cops does not need to be an inherent part of operating a crisis lifeline. (There are even alternatives like CAHOOTS that send mental health workers out as a team). I've spent a lot of time looking into the risk policies of Crisis Text Line/NSPL/ 988 and 988 subcontractors, and i am incredibly and imminently concerned about the ways that "imminent risk policies" have few safeguards or accountability measures in place, and how in many crisis hotlines throughout the country, people don't even pretend to follow their own policies. It creates a system where ultimately, it is left up to the judgment of the individual crisis workers whether or not to involve the cops and as you've demonstrated, the bias, panic, and emotions of the person answering the call often lead to really detrimental outcomes for the person in crisis.

And as me and hundreds of other people could tell you, there are many of us who have had the cops called on us for things like failing to continue a conversation, admitting to a history of self harm, or calling while psychotic, or literally a thousand fucking reasons that don't even meet the stated "high risk" policy. And even if people do meet the "high risk," policy, having cops does nothing to make the situation safer. In 2019, having the cops show up at my house in the middle of the night fucked up my life in so many ways as a trans teen living in an abusive situation, as did the time that a crisis worker calling the cops led to the cops brutally assaulting me before signing the paperwork for a 72 hour hold. Cops have shot and killed people after showing up while they were in crisis; your claim that you'd rather have people "alive and hating you" shows that you fundamentally misunderstand who cops are and how they operate, as well as ignoring the particular danger that you put any people of color in who called your line while in crisis.

Your ignorance is dangerous. It is crucial that anyone who wants to support suicidal people understand that cops do not bring safety, that incarceration and confinement do not bring safety, and that the carceral logics that justify these systems must be dismantled if we want to build a better world for suicidal people to live in. I refuse to discard my suicidal friends and loved ones and refuse to settle for dangerous, stigmatizing, and traumatizing "resources" as the best we can do. I refuse to spread rhetoric that any type of violence, pain, and confinement can be justified in the name of "saving a life," and I am vocal about the need for us to actively build up the resources that allow us to provide compassionate support in a way that is affirming of suicidal people's autonomy. (and if you don't understand why I'm spending so much time also talking about psych incarceration on a post about crisis lines and cops, you need to start doing a hell of a lot more research about the mental health system, how it operates, and the roles of crisis lines and cops in enabling confinement.)

as someone who ALSO ACTUALLY VOLUNTEERS AT A HOTLINE THAT DOESN'T FUCKING CALL THE COPS, I understand INTIMATELY what it is like to have someone in crisis on the other end of the line and having to navigate how to offer lifesaving support in an urgent situation. and more importantly, as a mad person who has been suicidal and who has many, many loved ones are suicidal, I know what it is like to stay on a call with someone who is actively attempting suicide, and you know what? sometimes the reason I'm the person on the other end of that call is because of crisis lines like yours that call the cops, a violent, carceral system of psychiatry that prioritizes confinement over care, and rhetoric like yours that legitimizes the violent status quo! It is incredibly cruel and actively dangerous to act like the only way to support suicidal people is to call the cops, and that rhetoric actively gets in the way of enabling us to make alternative ways of caring for us other more widespread. And it is incredibly, incredibly fucked up for anyone to act like crisis workers have a monopoly on the type of trauma that comes from supporting someone who is suicidal.

you mention the trauma of volunteering at a crisis line but spend no time thinking about the trauma of being harassed, beaten, detained, killed by cops. it is cruel to tell suicidal people that their only option for accessing care is to submit themselves to the risk of police involvement, forced hospitalization, and a whole myriad of types of violence. And I refuse to do it. I love my suicidal friends so, so much and I demand better for them and me, and part of that demanding better is giving people right now the information they need to make informed choices about what resources they want to access, what will happen when they use those resources, and ways to minimize harm. In that post, I don't even tell people not to call crisis lines; I simply tell people accurate information (with multiple linked sources) about how crisis lines work so they can plan to mitigate the harm if they do need to access these resources. I never have any interest in shaming individual people for accessing the resources that are available to us, and I support people to make whatever choices are right for them--we will always have the most insight about what seems helpful to us, and I want to make sure people have all the information they need to make those choices.

i know this response is angry, but today, i have over a dozen friends who are arrested, some who are currently in solitary confinement, and multiple friends who were beaten by the cops this week. I have my own memories of being beaten and detained by the cops, and my memories and the current reality are a crucial and important part of the work I actively do to build anticarceral, cop free mental health resources. you are out of your depth on this post, and I am simply not interested in debating nor discussing this with someone who is directly complicit in the type of violence.

i wish more people were aware the vast majority of crisis lines have the power to call the police and will call the police on you if you express that you’re suicidal because i see crisis lines being spread all the time in leftist spaces but most people don’t add the information about police and i think that can be really dangerous. it’s fucked up that crisis lines can do that and i really fucking hate it and i wish that it was more widespread knowledge so that people could make informed choices about the resources they access. 

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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[sherrymagic]

I've got a good feeling about Toey. He's a wacky boy. It's like he feels no stress in his life. It seems there's something within him that makes me feel good when he's around. It's like I'm sitting in a vast grassy field with a gentle breeze under a bright sky. It's like I'm watching a masterpiece of art.

Winny Thanawin as Q and Satang Kittiphop as TOEY WE ARE (2024)

— for @srnileforme [3/4] ✩ ✩ ✩

[deathberi]

FINAL FANTASY VII EVER CRISIS: THE HOLY FLAME'S GIFT