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Why You Should Never Call A Suicide Hotline
They won’t help you, but they WILL send the police after you.
This is going to be a controversial article, but no one else seems to be talking about this.
Every year, around the holidays, I notice an increase in the number of commercials and advertisements for suicide hotlines.
It’s understandable. Suicide is considered a leading cause of death in the United States and claimed over 47,500 lives in 2019.
There are multiple advertisements advising people experiencing suicidal thoughts to call certain helplines throughout the year and those advertisements become more prevalent during the holiday season.
This is probably due to the fact that most people believe that the number of suicides increases during the holidays, even though that has been proven to be a myth.
Depression
Depression is an awful disease. I’ve suffered from depression since childhood and there really is no good way to describe it. You can find definitions of it and first-person reports of what it’s like, but until you’ve experienced it, you’ll never truly understand it.
There’s a level of despair that you reach when you’re depressed. It genuinely feels as though there is no point…
