Outside the UK
- United States988
Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, call or text.
- Ireland116 123
Samaritans Ireland.
- Canada988
Suicide Crisis Helpline.
- Australia13 11 14
Lifeline.
- Elsewherefindahelpline.com
Directory of crisis lines by country.
Please read this before anything else
If you are thinking about suicide or self-harm, this is the part of the site that matters. Please use one of these now rather than working through a module.
You do not need to be in immediate danger to use any of these, and you do not have to have a plan or a reason ready. Telling someone is enough.
- Samaritans116 123
Free, 24 hours, every day. You do not have to be suicidal to call.
- NHS 111111, then option 2
For urgent mental health support in England.
- ShoutText SHOUT to 85258
Free 24/7 text support if talking is hard.
- Emergency services999
If you have seriously harmed yourself or feel you are in immediate danger.
- Your GP—
For everything below crisis level, this is still the right first step.
If it is not a crisis but it is not fine either
Most of the time the honest answer is somewhere between "I am coping" and "this is an emergency". That middle ground is what a GP appointment is for, and it is a much lower bar than people assume.
The evidence on this is unusually clear: guided self-help — a workbook plus even light human support — performs roughly like face-to-face therapy for mild-to-moderate difficulty, while unguided self-help is reliably less effective. Whatever you do with this site, try to have a person somewhere in the loop.
In the UK you can self-refer to NHS Talking Therapies without going through a GP.