In the aftermath of the U.S. presidential elections, the suicide prevention phone lines at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline were busier than ever before. According to John Draper, the lifeline director, and his colleagues, between 1 and 2 a.m. alone there were 660 calls, which is three times the volume they were previously dealing with.
The statistic is all the more dire as the call rates were already higher than usual when this happened, as the volume was already tripled compared with its normal rates.
The trend was confirmed to have raised with other similar services as well, and Draper confirmed that in his 25 years of experience in the field, he had never experienced anything similar to this situation. Another spike the company had recorded took place after 9/11, when calls at the New York city hotline he owned back then raised over their normal parameters. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)
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