Comments | robertsloan2: Help lines (suicide topic may trigger)

robertsloan2

Help lines (suicide topic may trigger)

Jul 19, 2012 10:43

In my last article there's a major tip I forgot to put in or emphasize. Really, really important one, something that saved my life hundreds of times.

If you are LBGTQ - QUILTBAG - youth at risk, The Trevor Project has an incredible hotline. 866 488 7386 is the number ( Read more... )

suicide hotlines, suicide

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faunhaert July 20 2012, 02:38:17 UTC

i'm sorry you end up being
the canary in the coal mine(group).

its great they do training there

think they'd run into transgender folks before now
esp in san fransisco.

I've answered the lines at suicide hotlines
one of the things we did as a youth group
I hope i helped, maybe i did

I am glad you were helped.

i had the foot up against the wall
now its down and screaming
oops
now to go back upside down

sweet dreams Love!

robertsloan2 July 23 2012, 01:26:10 UTC

Thanks, faun. Good way to put it. I like that canary in a coal mine metaphor. That's me all right. Pretty much describes my entire sojourn in New York State from the point I became homeless. Something about the way I dealt with the problems was confusing and frightening to every agency I had to deal with, up till me they routinely crushed everyone and after me they'd clean up the system but too late for me not to come out of it with ever heavier PTSD reactions.

Good luck on the foot. Keep it elevated, sounds like that helps, hope you have someone helping you get things and take care of stuff.

rickyhpierre July 23 2012, 01:18:52 UTC

"discrimination kills."

How right you are Robert. I only wish that these hotlines were there in the UK in the late '50s I lost a good friend because he could not cope with his gender issues. He may have been a teenage boy to the world around him, but in his heart, soul and mind he was a girl. we who loved him knew it. Society then was so unforgiving.

Needless cruelty killed him. I have never forgotten my dear Terry.

Ricky

robertsloan2 July 23 2012, 01:28:32 UTC

Postscript - I've got the contact number now - took a few days but I've got it. Now just need to phone the clinic tomorrow and leave it on my doc's answering machine. And see my therapist, who has an uncanny knack of asking exactly the right question that turns my head inside out and leaves me feeling more confident. It's just eerie how she does that, and the new ideas stick well. She's got a fantastic technique.