Posted by Gracie2 on July 11, 2002, at 12:09:22
In reply to Re: Suicide hotline should change their response....., posted by Mr Beev on July 11, 2002, at 10:37:18
Anyone who is prone to severe depression and suicidal tendencies should, during their lucid moments, gather the phone numbers of available help such as a suicide hotline, maybe a doctor or therapist, if they would allow it.A couple of years ago, about 4:00 in the morning, I decided I would probably harm myself if I didn't have someone to talk to about how I could be helped. I was much too distraught to go through the phone book looking for telephone numbers, so I called the operator and asked her for the number to a suicide hotline. Instead of connecting me, she started talking to me, and it did not occur to me what she was really doing.
She asked me if I had decided how to kill myself and I stupidly replied, "It wouldn't be hard, we have a loaded gun right in the bedroom." (I could still bang my head on the wall when I think about this.) A minute later, I could hear someone pounding up the porch stairs. They started to beat on the door quite loudly and woke up everybody in the house. I said to the operator, "Thanks a lot," and hung up. Of course, it was the police, with the fire department EMS.
I was mortified. They wouldn't let me get my purse
or talk to my husband or anything, they hustled me into the ambulance and we drove away.Really, all I had wanted was someone to talk to.
I guess I got that!
-Gracie
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