The USA suicide hotline is terrible and shouldn’t be promoted.

I know a bunch of doctors and celebrities and pretty much everyone else is all for giving just about everyone the number to the suicide hotline and claiming it will help everyone. But from my experience, it just further drives people away from admitting they need help or getting help. The only thing you get from giving your phone number is spam calls. The service itself is pretty much the same as speaking to a friendly AI chat, if you’ve talked to one before you know what I mean. Nothing they say seems relevant to what you’re going through, or it just seems like thechat has broken and it just starts saying random generic phrases that mean nothing. <br><br>Now I’m not here to say that the people working at the hotline are horrible and unfeeling people, they do have a job to do and they are people too. But, I feel like the service they provide is terrible and sometimes even unhelpful. I’ve brought this up to multiple mental health professionals and they all say that I just got the one bad apple, but I felt the exact same way every time I called. I’m sure there are good workers, but with the volume of calls they get mixed with the fact that they aren’t paid much, it’s not a surprise that most of the time the service is sub par.