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 pretending they are helping. They aren't.<br><br>I've called them myself, spoke to countless other individuals about there first hand experiences. What they do is nothing beyond taking your zip code, telling you you're doing great and telling you the name and phone number of your local mental health providers. They don't even give you directions on how to find them. They just hang up immediately after that.<br><br>If someone is on the brink of killing themselves, the last they need is to be hung up on. They need help and they usually need it immediately.<br><br>We all know that mental health providers are all jammed packed and usually have wait lists. You can't get in to see someone right away. I've waited months to get in with someone and that's only because I had previously threatened suicide and "needed to be monitored". Not once did they ever ask after a firearm or knives, which was what I was going to use. They didn't care that I owned a firearm and had access to it. They didn't even ask about it.<br><br>I've been in a mental health crisis before and I know what it feels like. If the suicide hotline is going to tell me to kill myself and get it over with, why bother calling them? They've done nothing but make me feel worse.<br><br>Everyone needs to stop pretending they're helping by giving out that number.