If you work at a suicide prevention hotline you really do save lives. Every time I call someone saves mine. I just got off the phone with someone who helped give me some possible solutions to some problems I’m dealing with and generally just made me feel heard and validated which I have been searching for desperately in family, friends and myself and have not been able to find any sense of peace, hope or love. The fact that a stranger cared enough to listen to me cry on the phone about how lost and alone I feel gave me a lot of hope and helped take some pressure off which I have been trying to do through every coping skill I could think of for over a month. Thank god I called. And thank god those people exist.