today I volunteered to answer a telephone and I talked to a 19yo kid who was suicidal cause his girlfriend left him cause he regularly drinks a half gallon of Cpt Morgan, blacks out, and passes out in pricker bushes and I was like not sure what to do

was that an aa thing? how do you end up on that phone call?

idk how fun carnival the game is, but ive lost that much frivously in a month (not a weekend) by being an idiot with money

like, it was my life savings, implied income tho

yeah, it was. it was my first day doing it too. kinda crazy how just any ol' rando could have end up taking that call. i mean, i just walked into the office last week and said i want to volunteer and the lady told me to come in today and i could answer the hotline. didn't fill out any paperwork, no background check, no mental health screening, i mean what if i was some sicko who was just like-"you sound like a tool. kys."?

"It was foolish for putting up my life savings"

LOL


martingaling life savings for dreadlocked bananas never ends well afaik

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so what did you say

that's pretty messed up, they're risking lives by allowing untrained people answering the phone and talking to potentially suicidal ppl
w/e m8 do u even yolo?

solid contender for a location iyam

whoa


edit: also, seems to me that EW would be an insanely good counselor

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Well, he said he thought (or his gf thought) that he had a drinking problem, and she left him cause she said she couldn't love someone who didn't love themselves, so I related to him how drinking and depression are a downward spiral from my own experience, how I got to a point that I didn't want to live but was still afraid to die, but continued to use alcohol as an escape, even when I realized it was making things worse. So I told him he might consider taking some time off of drinking and see if his head clears up a bit, but that he should do it for himself and not do it to try to get his gf back. Then I asked him if he was interested in going to a meeting, or getting a call from anyone, and he reluctantly said sure, okay, so I gave him directions to a place, and I called someone else who was in his area and gave that person his phone number. And I told him that going to a meeting for the first time can be a bit overwhelming, but the program can offer a lot of support and it is worth checking out, and that only he himself can figure out if it is what he needs or wants because he himself has to determine whether or not he has a problem with alcohol. I felt really underqualified during the whole thing, and found myself becoming fearful that what I said could be the difference between....well....that it might be more important or meaningful than I wanted it to be, so I tried to remove the fear of having to say the exact right thing, and instead of trying to configure the perfect response, just talked about my own experience and hopefulness. I thought I did a sorta okay job, but coulda been much better, like I maybe came across without much surety. I thanked him for calling, and he said I was a "life-saver" which made me wonder if it was a prank call.

I surely understand this 0% but it is one of my favorite sentences I have ever read

Also restaurant bar drama is awesome and at least a one half a billion times funnier when you're sober. Otherwise sobriety pretty woat tho.

Evan, you gave dece advice, for better or worse

meh, I probably shoulda listened more, but I almost started laughin when he talked about always passing out in pricker bushes

Yolo's just another word for nothin left to lose.

I killed it with that? Sheesh you people are making a statement.

I'm sure this has made many'a'round but this is the first time I"m seeing it. Awesome.

thanks for that. i like the girl's metaphor, it renews my zeal to fight that force which seeks to shove us down

This is dumb I haven't even drank and I'm listening to dance. I broke myself.

gonna be okay, da da doo-doo-mmm

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