Saturday Night Crisis Lines by Robert Harrison

[Guest guest]

Robert Harrison is a 13 Year volunteer on the Suicide and Crisis

hotlines. He has written a book that is now being released by a West

Coast publisher. " Saturday Night Crisis Lines - A book about

compassion and mercy from the telephone hotlines of a big city

crisis intervention center " . It's an easy read and the actual calls

cover every human emotional behavior. This type of book has not

been done before, so it's not a " me too thing " . Thank you

 

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" Saturday Night Crisis Lines " is about life at the desperate level,

about the affluent and the poor, about people with doctorate and

masters degrees, as well as the high school dropout. This is life at

its most traumatic expressed by callers as they seek help, as well

as a compassionate and calming voice on the crisis hotline.

 

A caller on a Saturday night wants to know what to say in a note to

his wife and son. " I have a gun on the desk in front of me. " He is a

senior executive in a Fortune 500 company.

 

A young stockbroker in his mid-thirties calls: " I start looking for

the Twin Towers and they aren't there. I last saw them an hour ago

in Midtown. I know what happened but emotionally I can't handle it. "

 

The caller was seventy-eight years old. For the past several years

he had been drinking far too much trying to drown some bad memories

as well as the loneliness after his wife of fifty years died. " The

memories, how far back to they go? " asked the hotline volunteer.

 

" To the 1940s, the war years, " replied the caller.

 

" What campaign? "

 

" Guadalcanal. "

 

" You were in the 1st Marine Division? "

 

" Yes, we landed in August, 1942, " the caller replied.