Thread: help lines?!?!
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Old Apr 16, 2006, 09:32 PM
Hopefull Hopefull is offline
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My EAP wasn't to good. They constantly ask if I felt safe. But, if you have an Employee assistance program you could try them. She had claimed to me that they can act as a suicide prevention line. But, I think they are too paranoid for me to talk to them about that subject ever again. I don't know anything about the national lines. My local 211 guy was nice. They aren't very good on resources but they can probably listen to a person. I suspect they aren't very highly trained. So they would probably over react to a thought of suicide. I find that only people who are used to "treating" people with mental problems and "mentally ill" people respond to thoughts of suicide in a reasonable/non overreactive way. People are afraid of law suits and things.