local branch, says the pressures of the pandemic on people’s mental health and a sense of bleakness, unease and uncertainty about what changing Covid restrictions will mean for them in 2021 was an overarching theme among New Year callers.
An additional four Samaritans were on duty at the Lanarkshire branch between Hogmanay and midnight on Friday, when the team of volunteers handled 57 calls.An anticipated surge in calls due to a storyline in TV soap Eastenders did not materialise and the number of calls taken during the New Year period was average for the branch.
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