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Torey
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Post subject: In a Crisis? Please Look Here...  Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:38 am |
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We here at Magicka offer our advice, prayers and healing energies freely and with great care. However, if you are in a crisis and are contemplating suicide, running away from home or you simply have no place left to turn - then please, take a moment to read the following.
Provided here is a list of important telephone numbers available for those of you residing in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. For those of you residing outside of these areas, please click here.
For those of you in:
Australia: (For more numbers that fall outside of the Suicide and Runaway categories, please click here.
Lifeline Australia
Telephone: 13 11 14
(Costs are the same as a local call - additional mobile phone charges may apply)
United States: (For more numbers that fall outside of the Suicide and Runaway categories, please click here.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Telephone: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
(Toll-Free)
United Kingdom: (For more numbers that fall outside of the Suicide and Runaway categories, please click here.
The Samaritans
Telephone: 08457 90 90 90
(Local rates apply)
Women's Aid Domestic Violence Helpline
Telephone: 0345 023 468
Childline
Telephone: 0800 1111
Freecall Message Home(They will give a message to a family member/friend if you have left and wish to let someone know that you are safe and alright)
Telephone: 0500 700740
Men's Domestic Violence Helpline
Telephone: 020 8 644 9914
Shelter Line (Emergency Access to Refugee Services)
Telephone: 0808 800 4444
Insolvency Helpline
Telephone: 0800 074 6918
Canada: (For more numbers that fall outside of the Suicide and Runaway categories, please click here.
The National Hopeline Network
Telephone: 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433)
Some useful websites to consider:
~The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
~Self-Injury : A Struggle
~Depression.com
~Girls and Boys Town
~Befrienders Worldwide
~SANE Australia
~DAWN : Domestic Abuse Women's Network
~International Resources - RAINN : Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network
~Beyond Blue (A Victorian Organization for those suffering from depression - they are open to anyone in Australia)
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Last edited by Torey on Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:05 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Melba
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:54 am |
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| Amber Moon Faerie - Magicka's Moon Princess |
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Thanks for this Torey, could be really helpful...
Could I add a couple for the UK please...
0345 023 468 womens aid domestic violence helpline
0800 1111 Childline
0500 700740 freecall message home - I have used this one in the past, they will give a message to a family member or friend if you have left and want to let someone know you are safe at leaset/
020 8 644 9914 Mens domestic violence helpline
0808 800 4444 shelter line - Emergency access to refuge services.
0800 074 6918 insolvency helpline..
Hope you didnt mind me adding Torey  _________________ 
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Torey
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:25 am |
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Thank you, Mel...and of course I don't mind! Anything to help those who may be in need. Thanks again for those. *HUGS*
Which reminds me...if anyone has any numbers or websites that may be useful to those in extreme distress and need, then please list them here or PM me and I will get them up. Blessed be. _________________ PM me any time!
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Ravenari
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:37 am |
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This is just a wonderful list, Torey, thank you so much. 
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Torey
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:49 am |
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*HUGS* Thank you, Ravenari! I hope that it helps someone. _________________ PM me any time!
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Ruby Rowan
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:20 am |
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Thank you sooooo much for thinking to post this Torey!!!! I am bipolar and altho am not in need of meds, i do recognize that there are dire circumstances where people need outside help. Sometimes this info is a lil hard to find too! Kudos!
Ruby Rowan
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Torey
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:29 am |
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It was my pleasure, hun. Sometimes when we're down or in a crisis state we don't feel like going through a million websites looking for a number to call. Like I said, I hope someone benefits from it. Blessed be. _________________ PM me any time!
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Abraxia Thalgus
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:03 pm |
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| Sage the Magicka Guardian |
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For Australia, I would like to add Beyond Blue a Victorian org set up for people with depression, but anyone in Australia can call them.
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Raven Heart
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:31 pm |
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Could we maybe have a single page with the numbers etc on save it getting spread around?
Maybe Torey could add them all on his first post?
Just an idea - It just starting to look a bit messy 
Nice a thought
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Melba
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:04 pm |
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| Amber Moon Faerie - Magicka's Moon Princess |
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maybe make a sticky with all the numbers on?? then they are all in the same place all the time...
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GuenivereMoonChild
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Post subject: crisis hotline lists Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:34 pm |
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Location: suburbia Chicago, IL USA
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Merry Meet All-
I apologize if this is the incorrect place to make a comment but felt compelled to make a comment.
I clicked on this forum subject as I am in need (great need) of healing energies. I have been away from Magicka for a long time due to my MS and when I found this link all I could think of was "oh thank goddess".
When I found this crisis list and the reasoning behind this list (THANK YOU TOREY), I thought to myself, now I know. Now I remember.
I am reminded of what a truly unique and precious place this is- Magicka that is. I have been a student of other schools before. NOWHERE or NO ONE has ever posted a list such as this. A list that speaks to the understanding that not all problems / healing requires magickal assistance but rather mundane assistance- something I think that is altogether too often forgotten in the magickal community. Mundane healing seems almost looked down upon in the magickal community <from my experience....and unfortunately I have too much experience related to this topic>.
I suffer from Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. I have yet to find a doctor willing to treat me for my condition as my illness is extremely progressive and the prognosis is, putting it mildly, bad. But I still want to be treated. As a nurse with some experience in this condition, I have found my own mundane ways in order to treat my illness. Without these mundane "ways" I am a waking vegetable. I am unable to interact with my surroundings and am bedridden without these mundane "ways". Despite my efforts I am still very ill, but at least I am able to be HERE at least some of the time and that is something. When I have sought out magickal healing I have been put down for my own mundane efforts in healing myself. But if it weren't for these mundane efforts, I wouldn't be able to seek out magickal assistance. It is my sincere hope that my mundane efforts will make it so that I am able to receive true magickal healing. I am crying as I write this. When I clicked on "healing energy requests" the last thing I expected to find was a thread acknowledging the need for mundance healing assistance. For the first time since falling ill four years ago, I don't feel "dirty" for seeking out both mundane and magickal ways to heal me. For the first time in four years I feel that I have done what is right for me and that my efforts both magickally and/or mundane are complementary (as has been my gut instinct) instead of being forced to choose one system over another.
I am so thankful Magicka exists. I am so thankful for this final feeling of validation (that I didn't know I needed but apparently I did!) that you can be both a nurse and a witch and this doesn't have to be a choice of one over the other. That being a wiccan nurse is something and not nothing and that both magick AND nursing are not seperate entities that cannot be combined.
I apologize for the long post. I didn't expect to be sharing my story as I did. It is hard for me to explain what I am thinking sometimes and I hope this post is not confusing. I just wanted to say how thankful I am that there is a place such as this that recognizes TRUE life requires both mundane actions and magickal actions.
THANK YOU.
Brightest of Blessings To All-
Guenivere
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Torey
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:03 am |
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Guenivere, your story touched me in a very big way. *HUGE MASSIVE HUGS* I'm so happy that you found comfort and solace, not only in this post, but in the whole of Magicka. We are a spiritual family here...as I was once told. I believe that to the very core of my being. Blessings to you eternally.
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:41 am |
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*hugs*
Thankyou for sharing your story. I agree with Torey - we are a faminly here, and I personally feel blessed to be part of it.
I am glad this thread was of help
Blessings to you
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Abraxia Thalgus
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:10 am |
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| Sage the Magicka Guardian |
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As people we have many paths we can choose to go in if in need, why on earth only limit yourself to one! All choices are there for a reason, I say use them! In the end, who is to say how the 'magick' will come about for you?
Get the help you need and don't let ANYBODY tell you its less of a choice because it doesn't involve standing naked in a circle and spouting flowery words!
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Ngetal
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:46 am |
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Guenivere,
Having MS is a difficult time (my husband has MS) I understand that you need to look at all the options. Here on Magicka you can talk about anything, about how you are feeling, wether it is magickal requests that you need, or just someone to talk to. This are not mundane, this is life, take what you need. We are all here to help. As you said, people talk about alternative medicine, when it should be complementary.
Healing energy I send to you as well as my thoughts that you find someone who can help in all aspects of you care.
You can allways talk to us here on magicka.
BB
Ngetal
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