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Urgent support: call, text or email

If you or someone you know is at risk right now, help is available. Use the options below to call, text or email for support. If there is immediate danger to life, call 999.

• Call

  If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis, feeling suicidal or in need of urgent support, call one of the numbers below now.

  These numbers are free and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week (unless stated).

  • Call Crisis Line on 0800 804 8999.
  • Call 111 and select the mental health option.
  • Call Papyrus on 0800 068 4141 (for young people up to age 35).

  CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) is available from 5pm to 12am every day on 0800 58 58 58.

  Amparo (support after suicide): 0330 088 9255.

• Text

  Text “EYUP” to 85258 for confidential support with anxiety, stress, loneliness, depression, self-harm or suicidal thoughts. Available 24/7.

  Text “SHOUT” to 85258 if you are experiencing a mental health crisis. Free on most networks and available 24/7.

  For deaf or hard of hearing, text 07771 933 869 starting with “Deaf”. (May not be free.)

• Email

  Email the Samaritans at jo@samaritans.org or visit the Samaritans website for more ways to get support.