well, yeah i pretty much agree with the other person. literally white bird is just literally the bottom of the barrel. they are just. so. bad. they have been horrible the whole time ive lived in this town. i literally tell people they are the worst. really, the worst. absolute bottom of the barrel. untrained 'people' who are -extremely- abusive. they really truly are. the 'people' who work there literally would walk past someone dying in the street and laugh. i have lived here so long and if you can get someone who has sixty seconds of training sometimes they have been helpful. but not in... a very long time. they also dont offer confidentiality anymore. it used to be you could call these lines with anonymity but now i actually literally hear them literally typing if you actually get through, they sit there and type every single thing you say. who the heck are you selling that to, white bird? the cops? thats what it seems like. you are getting way too much like cops and way not enough like anyone who cares. but that seems across the board at every level of healthcare. you are just another sick sadistic front for people who like to abuse the vulnerable. you should be ashamed, and i hope that you lose every single scrap of funding that anyone has ever given to you. but then you'll still get plenty of money from your buddies the cops. i literally tell everyone i know how terrible you are. so how can i help people 'learn about this nonprofit' what can you learn? you can learn never to go there, and that these people are basically cops. all of you, should be ashamed. completely and totally ashamed. so hopefully this was 'detailed and candid' enough for you, because what i really think of 'white bird' is what everyone calls you behind your back... yeah thats not a swear its spelled how it sounds. thats what the community knows you are. why dont you hire more people to literally hang up on the suicidal. is that what you train your 'staff'. not surprised to see this in the other review. yes, thats what you get here folks. they are totally willing to straight hang up on a suicidal person.
I call these people to help me and they abuse me. 80 seconds after I start to talk they're telling me that they're not gonna play this game. They start berating me, abusing me, and then hang up. I read they're hiring untrained people and need people with empathy and a sense of humor. A sense of humor? Why because people in crisis are idiots to be abused? Empathy? Not even close. I've gotten 2 of these narcissists so far. Asa is good enough, but the others are sicker than I am. A crisis line that accuses people in crisis of playing games? An empathetic person that berates and upsets people who may be thinking of hurting themselves? $18 an hour to argue with people suffering with panic attacks all night,day, abusing people having a hard time because of being abused already. Depression, fear and confusion being treated by some self worshiping ...Sadist? How can I understand this? My understanding is that her job for which she is well paid, is to validate and empathize with me, not to argue, upset and abuse me. She obviously can't fix me in 15 minutes so why not just listen???Drug addict? I wouldn't doubt it. Many counselors have a history of mental illness and drug addiction, that's how they get started. However is it right that they agitate people because they get triggered? This place is the worst, these people are harmful to people looking for some compassion, some hope...edit; This is regarding Asa, His tone is calm and respectful, however the 2 times I've talked to him he has minimized my situation. He having 15 minutes to talk wants to tell me that my process given to me by a trained therapist with 25 years of experience is nothing more than venting. Some mindless ranting and not something that is needed to heal. Today he answered very nicely but when I told him who I am he SUDDENLY was on the phone with someone else and said he would call me back. Liar. It's been an hour. If I was suicidal something they ask me almost every call to other crisis lines I'd be having a real problem. I'm talking my life back and not going to be abused by these "empathetic" narcissists. They get paid to listen and validate, they're trained and this is not the place for them abuse me with their feelings and needs. wth? If YOU have mental problems get some help but try to abuse me. The Whitebird org is hiring abusive people, liars, and people who seem to be narcissists. Humorless and without empathy, even without professional maturity.