{"id":9164,"date":"2010-09-17T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/with-days-like-this\/"},"modified":"2010-09-17T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T12:17:00","slug":"with-days-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/blog\/with-days-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"With Days Like This&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jiis.org\/?cmd=researchers.133&amp;act=read&amp;id=84\">Michal Korach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The holiday season, with the family gatherings and meals it occasions, not infrequently  intensifies feelings of loneliness and depression, stress and anger. ERAN Emotional  Crisis Hotline was created to offer support to anyone experiencing such feelings of  distress. ERAN operates a phone hotline (which can be reached from any phone with the  universal number 1201) and an internet live emergency help center, both anonymous and  strictly confidential. ERAN was first set up in 1971 by Maria-Berta Zasleni in memory  of her late husband, the psychiatrist, Arie Zasleni. The first center was situated in Mrs.  Zasleni\u2019s home. By 1983, four more centers had been established in Tel Aviv, Haifa,  Beer Sheva and Netanya, which were operated by the cities municipalities. In 1983 the  independent emotional first aid centers united to form a national organization.  <\/p>\n<p>At present, ERAN operates in ten locations throughout Israel: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv,  Haifa, Beer Sheva, Netanya, Kfar Saba, Carmiel, Hadera, Rishon Lezion and Nazareth.  ERAN\u2019s 24-hour hotline is the organization\u2019s primary service. The hotline operates in  three languages: Hebrew, Arabic and Russian, and is available to any individual seeking  emotional first aid, coming from any background. There are two additional, specialized  centers, one for soldiers and another for the elderly. The hotlines are operated by  volunteers who come from diverse professional backgrounds and who undergo extensive,  professional training before taking on their posts in the call center.  <\/p>\n<p>ERAN received 135,000 calls in 2009 \u2013 58% of them from women. A break down of the  calls reveals that the leading motivations for calling the center were: loneliness (24%),  mental illness (19%), relationship difficulties (9%), interpersonal difficulties (7%),  parent-child relationship difficulties (6%) and depression (6%). <br \/>Among the soldiers who called the center, the leading causes for calling the hotline were  sexual identity issues (12%), trauma or anxiety (7%), sexual problems (6%) and sexual  assault (4%). Among the population of elderly callers, the leading causes for calling  were loneliness (52%) and interpersonal relationship problems (12%). In the Arab sector,  the leading issues were relationship difficulties (51%) and loneliness (42%). <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0X8j-02t2cE\/TM6iydyzLQI\/AAAAAAAADQE\/lPG2jgsEens\/s1600\/%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9F_ew.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 151px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0X8j-02t2cE\/TM6iydyzLQI\/AAAAAAAADQE\/lPG2jgsEens\/s400\/%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9F_ew.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534539979959774466\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michal Korach The holiday season, with the family gatherings and meals it occasions, not infrequently intensifies feelings of loneliness and depression, stress and anger. ERAN Emotional Crisis Hotline was created to offer support to anyone experiencing such feelings of distress. 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