Thread 83031605

I never understood suicide hotlines.
Are you really suicidal if all it takes to prevent your suicide is someone saying "nooooo don't do it!"?

normies do not have inner speech

that's why therapists and hotlines like that work on them

they literally cannot create a thought and need someone to input an opinion in their brain (literally an npc golem)

>>83031605 (OP)
They don't work and most of the time it's a woman on the hotline who literally cannot understand or empathize with you in any capacity

>>83031605 (OP)
The working principle is just "better than nothing". They have a statistically significant impact on lowering suicide rates and self-injury from failed suicide.

I used to work with a stupid single mom that volunteered at one of those hotlines. She gleefully told me she would call the cops on people at the slightest notion they would "harm themselves". She was proud of it.
Just an fyi

>>83031710
That's literally what you're supposed to do, they intervene and take someone to the psych ward.

>>83031605 (OP)
Its literally cry for help.

>>83031710
>Call hotline
>Cops enter your home and shoot you
>Dies from wound bleeding instead of killing yourself
Yep, another suicide avoided

>>83031605 (OP)
Most people that claim to be suicidal, and an overwhelming majority of people who call suicide hotlines, are looking for a voice to talk them out of it. Usually without resistance.
In that sense the hotlines are very effective. They appeal to people that don't wanna do it, and tell them not to do it. So it works.

For people that actually wanna kill themselves, obviously a random nobody with a script on the other end of a phone that'll report you first chance the get isn't exactly any sort of comfort.

>>83031605 (OP)
If you feel constantly down i doubt they actually help but could see that they would help some mentally unstable person who currently has a breakdown