Immediate Mental Health Support

If Your Life Is at Risk Right Now

Call 999, or go to A&E.

If you think you may have harmed yourself, or that you're at risk of doing so, please seek urgent medical help now. If you have the number for your local NHS crisis team, you can call them directly.

If you can't make that call alone, ask someone nearby to help you.

Emergency services are there for this. You are not wasting their time.

If You Need to Talk to Someone

The services below are free, confidential, and available without a referral.

Samaritans
Available 24 hours a day, every day
Call: 116 123
Email: jo@samaritans.org

HopelineUK / Papyrus
For people under 35, and those supporting them.
Available 9am to midnight
Call: 0800 068 4141
Text: 07860 039 967
Email: pat@papyrus-uk.org

Shout 24/7 text support
Text SHOUT to 85258

NHS Urgent Mental Health — England
Available 24/7 Find your local urgent mental health line If unanswered, call 111

NHS Urgent Mental Health — Scotland
Available 24/7
Call 111

NHS Urgent Mental Health — Wales
Available 24/7
Call: 0800 132 737
Text: help to 81066
If unanswered, call 111

NHS Urgent Mental Health — Northern Ireland
Available 24/7
Call: 0808 808 8000
If unanswered, call 111