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Crisis Text Line offers teens a new counseling service
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Feb 5, 2015
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Crisis Text Line offers teens a new counseling service
Crisis Text Line helps teenagers through academic stress, clique problems at school and more serious issues like depression and suicidal thoughts.
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Crisis Text Line helps teenagers through academic stress, clique problems at school and more serious issues like depression and suicidal thoughts.

A couple of years ago, a new service called Crisis Text Line launched, attempting to solve an old problem with a new solution. 

The service is available 24/7 and offers free, emotional support for teenagers in need. On average, they receive 15,000 text messages a day.

Alice Gregory recently wrote about this for The New Yorker and she joined Take Two to talk about her article and her experience as a counselor.