[ReactiveJelly]

Yeah there's been 4 or 5 times where I really wanted someone to talk to, but I'm just not a suicidal person, so it feels weird to tie up a suicide hotline for my petty problems.

So then you go to a therapist and they're like "You have to want to change".

I don't know about that. I used to have friends. I don't want to change, I want to have friends again!

Considering how much therapy costs, I've joked about just hiring prostitutes to be my friends for hourly pay. Why can't the gig economy meet that demand, huh? I'll pay $15 an hour to share my opinions on Linux with another trans girl while she pretends to listen. That's an entire work shift for the price of 1 hour of therapy!

[thrown_22]

>Considering how much therapy costs, I've joked about just hiring prostitutes to be my friends for hourly pay. Why can't the gig economy meet that demand, huh? I'll pay $15 an hour to share my opinions on Linux with another trans girl while she pretends to listen. That's an entire work shift for the price of 1 hour of therapy!

If you talk to escorts a surprisingly large chunk of their clientele does exactly that. That said $15 is no where near enough to have to listen to someone talk about how great Arch is.

[AHatLikeThat]

In New Mexico we have a non-profit staffed by volunteers trained in listening. It is not a suicide hotline exactly, they welcome anyone who feels like they need to talk. It's anonymous. I had several friends who volunteered there some years back; they'd get calls from old people who were lonely, stressed out students, all kinds of people. I don't think you have to be New Mexican to call. http://www.agoracares.org/ 505-277-3013 855-505-4505

[easrng]

You don't need to pay to talk about Linux, silly. There are plenty of people (Including trans girls (hey that's me)) who'd listen for free!

[fires10]

Funny you should mention that, I have thought about similar things. There a few trans related discords for techies. That helped me.