Because if you want to talk to someone about it, chances are that they might not be there to take your call. I wish I was making this up.
A nonprofit organization that operates the nation's largest suicide hotline is owed $266,000 by the Federal Government and is in danger of having its phone lines cut off at 5pm. Simultaneously, the government is hoping to direct callers to a new hotline, operated by the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, RAW STORY has learned.
"Our concern is that in order for suicide hotlines to be effective, the lines must be completely confidential," Save-1-800-SUICIDE spokesman Scott Goodstein told RAW STORY today. "Who will call a suicide hotline if there is any fear that a record of the call can be made by the government or if they are concerned their call might be logged into a government database?" he asked.
The statement by the operators of the hotline maintain that the government SAMHSA has gone on to create their own competing crisis hotline -- which gives them access to callers' private information through phone records
So...I'm assuming that the government is hoping to catch would-be terrorists this way? Are they waiting for someone to call in and say, "I've joined this new group, and at first, it was so cool, and I had friends, but now they want me to kill myself for our cause, and it's depressing me"?
Never fear, my fellow mentally ill Americans! As long as Big Brother is listening in on your darkest secrets and fears, then you'll always come out feeling like a winner! Hooray, Patriot Act!
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