Knowing all the foreign doctors that work at the various VA hospitals, I won’t doubt if they have outsourced their suicide hotline to India, or some other country like that.
I was just thinking. If there is an overload of calls, for suicide calls they should be able to automatically be forwarded to other Vet Suicide hotlines, say for each branch of the service. The Marines have their own, so if the call isn’t answered the system could automatically be transferred to that hotline. But what do I know. Interservice coop should be done for this.
If it is non-emergency, there are millions of vet advocates who could take the other calls. Just speaking to someone who could possibly prevent the spiral of rejection and hopelessness into a future suicide call.