nfrae said:
I've been wanting to call, but it just seems like emotional prostitution to me (more so than therapy). I hear that people are often forced to wait up to hour to even talk to someone anyway. They'll just tell me what I want to hear long enough to calm me down. Also, calling in itself frightens the hell out of me. It was always a comforting last resort but now I'm not so sure...
I personally take a dim view of people wanting to commit sucide but then decides to ring a hotline.
I mean, it's obvious that you're pussying out of it and aren't really going to top yourself. Otherwise you would have shot yourself/jumped off a bridge/drank bleach/ got hit by a train already.
Suicide hotlines are not necessary. If you want to kill yourself, go right ahead. If not, then you know you're not because you know what they're going to say, and it's not "have a nice trip"; so why bother?