Wes Ely MD 

Loneliness at Christmas:👇❤️‍🩹

✔️Patients teach me 1000x how difficult this time of year can be
✔️They say (and I agree) it’s helpful to TALK about why we are sad & lonely
✔️“I see you, loneliness demons” & they can shrink

#988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
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Dec 24, 2022 at 2:13pmWeb
Show threadJacqueDec 24, 2022
@WesElyMD
Last year was the first year of splitting Xmas for my son and his girlfriend, now fiancé. I spoke up as I felt it was important for them to know the pain I felt at Xmas and how not seeing them would be really hard. We worked it out for this year and I’m so much more at peace.
Show threadMargaret Hitchcock, PhDDec 24, 2022
@WesElyMD And a reminder that the bird site deleted access to suicide prevention resources. People likely also need a reminder to check in on friends over the holidays - as 3y of this pandemic and the isolation it has induced are certainly not helping. #ReachOut #ShareSomeKindness #TheLifeYouSaveMightBeYourOwn #MentalHealthResources
Show threadWe're Not In Kansas AnymoreDec 24, 2022
@WesElyMD thanks for posting this...
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Show threadLinecutterDec 24, 2022
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#joinin for those here, or on the birdsite who would like to limit that loneliness as bit
Show threadRileyDec 25, 2022

@WesElyMD If you call 988 or the national suicide prevention hotline in NM, unless you are actually suicidal, the lady people usually get will go out of her way to get you off the phone while treating you like it's nothing

I'm not suicidal right now but I am lonely and alone today. I'm sad and that hotline will not do a damn thing for me if I called.

I'm just being honest here. These days I feel like those hotlines are more designed to keep taxpayers alive and working more than anything else