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Managing thoughts of suicide & self-harm

Defeated - hopeless helplines

Unknown userMember29 Jan 2025, 10:28 am AEDT

Defeated - hopeless helplines

Hi @Former-Member

I wish your situation was unique and rare but here is proof it is not. I got desperate today and tried to reach out yet again and I don't even know why. It's pointless and hopeless. No one can help me and I am here alone, isolated, neglected, emotionally abused and I don't know how people expect you to keep fighting when you get brave and reach out and there's nothing. It's faulted for sure.

I wish i could tell you this was the first time I've had this conversation but it's not. I wander how to get these jobs. They seem to really do minimal.

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Unknown userMember31 Jan 2025, 12:37 pm AEDT

Re: Defeated - hopeless helplines

@Former-Member oh that's definitely relevant today 😂.

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Unknown userMember01 Feb 2025, 10:38 pm AEDT

Re: Defeated - hopeless helplines

@Former-Member every now and then the crisis lines actually get it right. I've just spent almost 2 hours chatting to someone when I was close to acting on my thoughts. This person sat with me and just listened and helped to calm me down and bring me back into the present moment. I guess tonight I just got lucky to get someone helpful and it made a difference.

I know you have had so many bad experiences like i have but by sharing this i hope that you can see that sometimes it just takes many tries to get that one person that can help.

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