{"id":9029,"date":"2023-04-27T21:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9029"},"modified":"2023-04-27T21:32:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:32:36","slug":"health-wellbeing-calm-vs-the-samaritans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9029","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: CALM vs The Samaritans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8189-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9027\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8189-1024x538.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8189-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8189-768x403.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8189.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m having a pretty difficult time at present. I\u2019ve called The Samaritans quite a number of times. I\u2019ve had periods of doing so before. But in the past I used to hang up in disgust after just a few minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I\u2019m a different person now? Or maybe I\u2019m just more desperate? Whatever, I\u2019ve certainly found some of my conversations with The Samaritans to be helpful. So I\u2019m grateful the service exists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought I\u2019d try CALM, as their title \u2018Campaign Against Living Miserably\u2019, and their specific remit, re males and suicide, sounds tailor made for me, esp\u2019 right now. But the two times I\u2019ve called, it was shit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8190-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9028\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8190-1024x536.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8190-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8190-768x402.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8190.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first time it was a technical issue. The line was so appalling I couldn\u2019t hear the guy the other end. Mind, the little I did hear left me feeling \u2018what\u2019s the point?\u2019 That was a few days ago. I just called them again, today, and, although the line was better, the quality of support wasn\u2019t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So after 5-10 minutes of chat, I said thanks and goodbye, and hung up. Not impressed with CALM! It seems the quality of staff on the end of The Samaritans lines is a lot higher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder what training, if any, is required? There must be some? And it\u2019s not going to be a job, one would\u2019ve thought, that just anyone could do, straight off the street. But that\u2019s what I felt I was getting with CALM. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m having a pretty difficult time at present. I\u2019ve called The Samaritans quite a number of times. I\u2019ve had periods of doing so before. But in the past I used to hang up in disgust after just a few minutes. Maybe I\u2019m a different person now? Or maybe I\u2019m just more desperate? Whatever, I\u2019ve certainly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: CALM vs The Samaritans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2lD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9030,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions\/9030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}