If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.
When 24-year-old Marie texted 988 last December, she was in the middle of a dissociative episode that left her unable to speak.
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