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nspl_workson Suicide Prevention Hotline Number Should Be 3 Digits, 988, Agency Says

They called a suicide hotline. They did not want to die.

Edit: I have attempted suicide before and self harmed many times. I dated a woman who attempted 12 times.

It turns out life can get much much better. I haven't self harmed in years, she's very happy and hasn't either.

It's very hard to know what living well feels like until you've done it. It took years but I like waking up in the morning.

nspl_workson Suicide Prevention Hotline Number Should Be 3 Digits, 988, Agency Says

I've spent more than 200 hours volunteering on a suicide hotline.

I've called the cops once, on a woman who had taken two bottles of NyQuil and was losing consciousness with the phone on speaker begging me to stay on the line until she died because she didn't want to die alone.

I've talked a dozen people out of nooses, helped teenagers get through the night with out cutting themselves, helped women who were being beaten by the spouse find a women's shelter. I've talked to the same depressed and lonely old women in a California nursing home almost every week. I spent two hours on the phone with a man who was driving because he kept threatening to crash into on coming traffic.