If you need help right now

If you are in immediate danger, call your local emergency number. Otherwise, the lines below are free, confidential and answered by people trained for exactly this conversation. You do not have to be suicidal to call — feeling overwhelmed is enough.

United States & Canada

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

Call or text 988

United Kingdom & Ireland

Samaritans

Call 116 123, free, 24/7

Global text support

Crisis Text Line

Text HOME to 741741 (US), 85258 (UK)

Worldwide directory

Find A Helpline

Free helplines in 130+ countries

While you wait to be answered

Put distance between yourself and anything you could use to hurt yourself.
Tell one person where you are, even by text.
Slow your breathing out longer than in — four in, six out, for two minutes.
Make one small promise: nothing permanent tonight. Decisions can wait until morning.