TAMPA, Fla. - While the Bay Area sleeps, the phones at the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay still ring. Behind the lines, intervention specialists are on the other end, ready to listen and guide people through their darkest hours.

The Tampa-based center takes calls related to suicidal thoughts, substance abuse, and physical abuse. The calls reflect struggles many Bay Area residents face.

What they're saying:

"A lot of it is like financial and worry about the future and some things that cause them to use substances," Intervention Specialist Alphonso Myrie said.

Myrie has been at the Crisis Center for two years, fielding some of the heaviest calls imaginable on the overnight shift.

:"I normally take the high acuity lines, so that is the 988 lines, which is suicide prevention, and then the S

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