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within a week of each other, adding to the growing numbers
of young people taking their lives in Highland. Feedback from the peers of the two young men at the time said that they felt that there was nowhere for them to go to talk about their feelings or to get support when they needed it. A text line was established based
on feedback and research that showed that people were over 40% more likely to hang up a phone than complete a text and send it. Mikeysline text line was the first text-line based service in Scotland. Our text line continues to this day and has seen a signif- icant increase in contacts during the lockdown period. We expect this to continue as we all try to adapt to the new ‘normal’ and
we are there for you, should you need us.
In late 2017, we developed our
services further by opening the
Highland’s first out of hours
crisis service, again operating 7
evenings a week. The Hive offers a drop-in for anyone feeling socially isolated and experienc- ing a mental health crisis. This service remains temporarily closed due to the nature of the 1:1 work, but instead we have been and continue at this time to operate a Facebook Messenger call- back service – Mikeysline – You are not Alone. The contact details for both our text line and our Messenger/call back service can be found below.
Mikeysline is principally a suicide prevention charity, however, we support anyone at any level of emotional concern or distress. So if you are feeling worried, anxious, stressed, concerned
or depressed, please do consider getting in touch with us and if your feelings are already at
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a stage where you have thought about self-harm or suicide, please do speak to someone as soon as you can. We are there for you, every evening of the week.
Please do find out more about the services that Mikeysline offers by following us:
www.mikeysline.co.uk www.facebook.com/Mikeysline www.twitter.com/Mikeysline1 www.instagram.com/mikeyslineandthehive
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