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Other People’s Lives

The Anonymous Hotline - Episode 16

Other People’s Lives

Santagato Studios

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

If you’d like to share your story, call The Anonymous Hotline at 530-362-8918 and leave a voicemail. Resources and hotlines: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800) 273-8255 Crisis Text Line Text 741741 National Sexual Assault Hotline (800) 656-4673 National Domestic Violence Hotline (800) 799-7233 Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration National Helpline (800) 622-4357 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

We set up an anonymous hotline so that strangers could share their secrets and confessions.

0:06.0

These are some of the calls we received.

0:09.0

So, two years ago, I was taking care of my best friend's dog for the weekend, and he escaped from my house,

0:22.0

and I did everything to find him, and we never found him.

0:27.0

And he hates me, and I think about it every day, and I think I'm a really bad person for it, and I've never gone over it.

0:34.0

And I feel like I'll never be able to get over it, and I'll just live with this guilt forever and ever.

0:45.0

I have a dad habit of ending relationships pretty early.

0:54.0

I think the longest relationship I've ever been in was three months, and not a horrible relationship.

1:03.0

I usually end them because it sounds so bad, because I get bored, or I just lose attraction to the person, but mainly it's just, I think anxiety about them leaving me first.

1:24.0

And I have a really huge...

1:29.0

I really like my best friend a lot, and I'm worried about making him lose on him, because I don't want to end the relationship, and have a beyond bad terms.

1:47.0

I value a relationship a little too much for that, and I'm worried about that.

1:55.0

I am loneliness.

2:00.0

I have been lonely for as long as I can remember when growing up, I always felt like there was something missing in my life, or more like someone.

2:12.0

I had an abusive household physically and mentally in the motion growing up.

2:18.0

When growing up, I never wanted to be with my parents. I made a vow to promise myself that, and it made me the person who I am today.

2:28.0

I found that for my mother, that I was supposed to be a twin, that she had gotten an abortion.

2:37.0

My sister died during her abortion, and I did not. My mother decided to have me.

2:45.0

My whole life I had felt lonely, and like I was missing someone in my life, and I still do to this day.

2:52.0

I'm 30 years old, but I'm struggling heavily with this emotionally damaging loneliness.

2:59.0

It got better when I found myself falling in love with someone.

3:05.0

After five years of being together and dealing with mental issues, she had, I just couldn't anymore.

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