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**Most common questions. Quick caveat. I worked in one place, in the US, and there are many and they have different rules. I can't be sure I'm remembering correctly, nor that processes haven't changed. But to the best of my knowledge these processes are mostly the same.
***Insert - if you don't like the person your talking to, it's totally okay to hang up and call back in and talk to somebody else.
- Am I going to get emergency intervention if I call and say I've been feeling suicidal?
If that's the extent of your ideation, almost certainly not. Only in the uncommon, immanent threat situations are emergency services (ES) called. Also that required the involvement of a senior, experienced member of staff. It wouldn't happen by accident, or casually.
There call centers get millions of calls every year, and most people have some level of ideation. If ES was called on all of them, that's all the fire, police and ambulances would be doing all day. We really, don't want to call ES - it doesn't always help in the long run. But often it's required by law. *In the EU this may not be true, a commentor below said all calls are anonymous and there is never a chance of ES being called.
- When are emergency services called?
It varies slightly but not much. In my call center, people have to have a) a specific plan b) a specific timeline/deadline c) the timeline/deadline had to be immanent d) they had to have the specific means from (a) at hand.
So if you called and told me that you planned to jump of a bridge, and would do it next christmas, and were currently sitting on your coach, I'm not putting you anywhere near an immanent threat. We'll have a nice talk about why you feel that way, and I'll ask if we can give you call in a couple of weeks, a month, or even the day before christmas to check in.
- Can I call if I'm not really seriously considering suicide, but just kind of thinking about it?
Yes, please call. We consider it preventative compassion - being a great listener and giving you space to vent and find empathy could down the road avoid the spiral of negative emotions that could lead to suicide. Less than 5% of the calls are people seriously considering completion, to the best of my recollection.
- Do I have to be suicidal to to call?
No. Man
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Here's a report from their own Tribune, so they can't deny it.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2040895/1-debt-liabilities-mount-rs40-2-trillion/
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Debt, liabilities mount to Rs40.2 trillion
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>By Shahbaz RanaPublished: August 24, 2019
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>ISLAMABAD: For the first time in 19 years, Pakistan’s debt and liabilities have dangerously exceeded the size of its economy and peaked to a record Rs40.2 trillion at the end of last fiscal year – an addition of a whopping Rs10.3 trillion in a single year.
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>The reported the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Friday.
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>It was for the first time since the year 2000 when Pakistan’s total debt and liabilities were higher than the size of its economy.
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>In 2000, the country’s total debt and liabilities were equal to 106% of the GDP.
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>Total debt and liabilities also include the public sector enterprises’ (PSEs) debt, non-governmental external debt and inter-company external debt from direct investors abroad.
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>Foreign exchange: SBP reserves dip $26m to $8.2b
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>One of the reasons behind the steep spike in debt and liabilities was booking of some of the pending liabilities on the instructions of the International Monetary Fund.
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>Ironically, the dangerous threshold had been crossed during the first year of the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan who has long remained very critical of the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s economic policies that led to massive piling up of the debt.
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>To a question raised by The Express Tribune in March this year, Prime Minister Imran said one of the benchmarks of his success would be reducing the total debt and liabilities from Rs30 trillion to Rs20 trillion. But exactly the opposite happened.
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>The external debt and liabilities of Pakistan mounted to $106.3 billion as of June 2019, according to the central bank.
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>In the last fiscal year, net $11.1 billion was added to the external debt and liabilities by the federal government, SBP and private sector.
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>Statistics released by the SBP showed that by the end of last fiscal year, the country’s total debt and liabilities so
