Talk:Suicide methods/Archive 9
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Why is there no help line provided
There should be a help line provided at top of this Wikipedia site 2003:C6:3F2A:ED00:5D7A:A8F0:A38B:1E8A (talk) 02:41, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
- There is a link at the top of this page, where it says "The Wikimedia Foundation's Trust and Safety team maintains a list of crisis support resources."
- Additionally, it looks like 95% of people who arrive at this page are coming from web search engines, which means they have likely seen a message about their local crisis line(s) in the last few seconds. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:53, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, they may have seen a message with one telephone number, but our list has much more detail and is more comprehensive. It offers more than one number for each place (and some numbers maybe specific for different people, e.g., youths,
pregnant women,drug abusers, victims of violence, etc.). Further, a sad truth is that, in some places, the local crisis line returned by search engines is usually busy. It’s just a recording machine with no one answering the calls. It’s important to show people the other numbers. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 16:20, 5 May 2024 (UTC); 02:56, 6 May 2024 (UTC) - BTW, for those who have concerns about the 988 suicide crisis line, from this report: “Some advocates and people who had experiences with the mental health system took to social media to voice concerns about 988 and warn people not to call it”.
- But that NPR report also found that:
- 988 cannot geolocate callers
- the person who authored the Instagram post calling 988 "not friendly" hadn't called the hotline herself.
- ”Only when the caller cannot or will not collaborate on a safety plan and the counselor feels the caller will harm themselves imminently should emergency services be called, according to the hotline's policy.”
- P.S. The WMF list of resources is missing information for some places. Also, I can’t see it showing up on the top (or is it just me?) --Dustfreeworld (talk) 16:32, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- Ok I see the WMF list of resources now. It’s hidden in the “sea of boxes”. And I thought you meant it’s on the top of the article too, but I misread.. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 05:03, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, they may have seen a message with one telephone number, but our list has much more detail and is more comprehensive. It offers more than one number for each place (and some numbers maybe specific for different people, e.g., youths,
- 988 -beefbaby182 (talk) 22:12, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
There should be a help line provided at top of this Wikipedia site
- You are right. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 01:09, 6 May 2024 (UTC)