My problem with a 'mental health department'

[Yanderemenhera]

@Nared we love you, and i speak on the behalf of all browse dns citizens when i say you are the most amazing mod out there and we apresheate every little gram of advice you give.

[Yanderemenhera]

thank you ●´∀`●

[YourAriesBestie]

Damn, this got popular. I kinda get the advice thing but yeah, just go to your friends not a random group of teens.

[Melancholyyuga]

The 988 hotline is TERRIBLE. From hearsay as well as my experience with them and the experience of friends, they don't pick up t'phone for ages and when they do, they often are disinterested/disengaged and will hang up. Either they reform themselves or a need for a new hotline arises.

[Yanderemenhera]

he is also correct.

[A Former User]

God Damn

[A Former User]

In the YouTube videos about 988. when there's a disclamer about if you're feeling a way about... They don't even pick up? some safe call line.

[A Former User]

@YourAriesBestie But what if the friends are the teens? That could encourage people to contact. Apollo is a very well known mod. But that's just my opinion I guess.

[Nared]

@Melancholyyuga never used the 988 line. Back then when I was feeling down and having my mood swings. My sister would take me to the nearest mental hospital

[TheAndyboi]

maybe 988 was an excuse for a random dude to get a cool phone number

[YourAriesBestie]

Whenever I crashout I just listen to music in my head.

[TheAndyboi]

is playing minecraft in my head piracy tho

[Yanderemenhera]

mental hospitals are a fate worse than death. only worsed my issues.

[NightmareWolfie]

@phantemxtx I would like to jump in here, I have MANY friends who have received actual help from both therapy and antidepressants.

@YourAriesBestie Anyway, yeah, the mental health staff would be both untrained and hard to run. I believe I actually discussed the issues with you. If I had a therapist friend then maybe we could have a DNS therapist, but sadly I do not :C

[Yanderemenhera]

damn they must be lucky

[Nared]

@NightmareWolfie as someone that is on antidepressants. I can say they do help, I require them so that I don't have one of my mood swings and destroy everything

[NightmareWolfie]

@Nared Exactly :3

[Yuni]

@Melancholyyuga fr like when they call bck they have to say "Hello, Are you still alive?" Be quiet before I ask you tha- /j

[Yuni]

@YourAriesBestie PINK. PONY. CLUB. /j ik that era over but its still funny

[Apollo.Is.Silly]

I struggle with MY mental health too. I know signs of mental illnesses because I was diagnosed and struggle with them. SOIACW is not a ''professional'' mental health source. But we try. I've helped MANY of people on this site. SOIACW is a place to VENT. We listen and try to comfort.

And in my experiences of mental hospitals, hotlines and other professional sources, they didnt work. The hotlines didnt pick up and never texted or called back. My mental hopitals i went to were shit. They didnt help with ANYTHING.

Also, some people CANNOT afford mental health help or cant go to one. Now, I'm not saying that I Don't agree with some of these, Some of these are reasonable. But, We are here to HELP and LISTEN to people who want help. My mom used to be a psychologist for 4years before becoming a lawyer. She teached me lots of ways to help and comfort distressed people.