this is false, I've called suicide lines many times and they've always been very helpful. they mostly want you to talk through your reasoning and help you to cope with whatever it is that has you so distressed. most of the time as you're talking to someone about what's going on, you're forced to focus your thinking away from harming yourself, and just hearing a compassionate voice can do so much to ease suffering. to anyone who happens across this person's comment or may feel the same way: please, PLEASE just call. if the authorities need to be called to help you and bring you to a psych hospital, that isn't a bad thing, and if you pay close attention to the psych doctors and try very hard to do as they say, you'll realize in time that they know exactly how to help you get better. I used to believe psychiatry and therapy were weird and couldn't possibly help, but one day I decided to go through with it and do everything my therapist recommended, and I realized it actually works. at first I didn't know how it was working, just that somehow it was working, but eventually I learned that there is real science and real change taking place. again, PLEASE CALL A SUICIDE HOTLINE IF YOU ARE SUICIDAL! I don't know you, but I know that every person breathing has so much love and joy in them that the world needs, even if they don't know it.