everytime i see someone promoting crisis lines i just remember the times both a suicide hotline and a domestic violence hotline hung up on me lmao
to elaborate on this further why i despise crisis lines:
suicide hotline operator told me to go check myself into the psych ward. i explained i cant do that because im living paycheck to paycheck and had this wild idea that maybe coming out of the psych ward afterwards and now being homeless wasnt gonna be helpful to my mental health actually. they got bitchy and said "i cant help you if you dont want to help yourself" and hung up
domestic violence operator told me to go to a battered womens shelter, informed me they only had 12 day stays before you had to leave and asked me if i had somewhere to go afterwards. i said no. she said "than why did you call the hotline" and i was completely speechless. she went on to berate me because i didnt want to lose literally everything i owned because starting your entire life over from scratch is fucking HARD and told me then it must not be that bad. this was something i had heard from cops already 100 times. and then she hung up on me.
fuck crisis lines.
