So I’m new to blogging and new to the Crisis Line. I’m super excited and can’t believe how rewarding it has already been. Thinking I just might be a help to someone in a time of crisis is an understatement.
CCY really prepaired me for being a counselor on the phone and that immediately became apparent with my first call.
It’s encouraging to know that when you are able to listen and empathize with the caller, you’re doing more than you can imagine. Little does the caller know that they are doing something tremendous themselves. This sounds to be a very positive and hugely rewarding adventure.
When asked to ponder my thoughts about what the Crisis Line means to me, four words instantly came to my head: A Pair of Ears
Not only do the people taking these phone calls hear what others are going through, they also care. To me that is an important thing. While I have personally never called a crisis line before, I have been on the other end. I have been the one listening to a story about what a person is going through. It is sad to know that so many of California’s youth today are going through their own personal crisis, whether it be they are dealing with abuse, victims of rape, dealing with a drug or alcohol addiction, or having family problems.
In my opinion, the person taking the call and giving advice to a person on a crisis line is a hero. The attributes they display clearly are attributes that a hero has. People answering these phone calls are brave, as they are willing to help a person help themselves. They are patient, as they listen to the story of the caller. They are dedicated, as they try everything under their power to help a person through what they are dealing with. Need I say more? Crisis line counselors are in fact heros!
If crisis lines were not around so many of today’s teens would commit suicide, run away, continue with their drug addiction and harm themselves.
So I wanted to take a moment and talk about the California youth crisis line… I know personally, there are often so many things people my age go through, whether its issues with parents, relationship issues, friendship issues, and even family drama… and often we have no one to turn to for help!
That is why the Crisis line is so important because its the one place people like me can turn to when we feel like there is no one else we can go to.
Do you know how good it feels to know that someone is listening!!! Especially when you feel like the rest of the world is against you!!!
To me this is why the Crisis line is so important, because its that someone we can talk to when we feel like no one else will listen.
and you know whats kinda funny, even parents call the crisis line!! I know my mom has called it a bunch of times when she doesn’t know what to do with me or my sister. For my mom, it was the place she could call for a second opinion, a different perspective, kinda like a counselor.
If the crisis line were to no longer exist, then who would people turn to? Especially when we feel like their is no one else that we can talk too!!! Life is hard right now, the economy is bad, its really hard to find a job, a living is really expensive… it is times like these that we need the crisis line most!!!
The one who has much but has little Heart full of soul
Only to be born with a soul that is old
Into a world that is cold
Sold
To the man with less
Then the man that has best
Must take the test
To bet the rest
Fail first, fail twice,
In a world that isn’t nice
Trails, tribulation
Follow by the evil of temptation
To break free from expectation
Different is that mans name
Hold him to his own chains
Used against him in every way imaginable
But not to what he has yet to imagine
The worst has not hit the mind
But through time
This man is tired
And is waiting to be fired
From the works of life
What is the mission?
That this man’s get only commission
Twisted I say
Only to be born in May
With two faces and the future where
Where the parental unit clams to pray
Believe in the world in which isn’t in the view
Of the one looking
For who must I follow?
Now to who must I lead?
The man who has much
But has little is only a title
For ink and blood is forever
Use full to the creation of a story
Until there is no more.
If it is meant to be then it is meant to be
Bullshit to the one without it
What is next for the one
That want what is not theirs
At that given moment
Stop
For that can be a taken moment
Breathe no longer
Life taken
And the want vanished
Stop
It will come some day
It may not be that
But there is
And there will
Be the want
That was wanted
But will you get lost
With these words
To loss the point
Or is there a point to be made
Life, Laugh, Love
Stop
Love cant come first
Life, Live it and get the message
And who can take away your laughter
Stop
Just another moment for me to
Write
Read
Read
Done
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