Flood Of Calls And Texts To Crisis Hotlines Reflects Americans’ Rising Anxiety

(By Yuki Noguchi for NPR)

Normally, Laura Mayer helps the most acutely suicidal callers find the nearest hospital emergency room. But in a pandemic, that has become a crisis counselor’s advice of last resort.

“It’s a difficult decision because we do know that by sending them into an overburdened health care system, they may or may not get the treatment that they need,” says Mayer, who is director of PRS CrisisLink in Oakton, Va., which also takes calls for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. “The resources may or may not be there, and we’re exposing them to the illness.”  Continue reading article here…

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