Crisis Support

If you’re struggling or in crisis, you are not alone. Help is available right now.

Psych Tomato is all about learning and understanding psychology, but we’re not equipped to provide emergency support or personal mental health care.

If you or someone you know needs immediate help, please reach out to a professional or trusted resource below.

If you or someone else is in immediate danger, has been seriously injured, has taken an overdose, or has already attempted suicide, call emergency services now or go to the nearest emergency department.

  1. United States and Canada: Call 911
  2. United Kingdom: Call 999 or 112
  3. Ireland: Call 112 or 999
  4. Australia: Call 000
  5. Elsewhere: Call your local emergency number.

PsychTomato is an educational website. Our comments, email, and contact form are not monitored as crisis services and cannot provide immediate help.

You do not need to find the perfect words before reaching out. “I don’t feel safe,” “I’m thinking about suicide,” or “I need someone to stay with me” is enough to begin.

United States

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

Call 988, text 988, or chat with the 988 Lifeline at any time.

The 988 Lifeline provides free, confidential crisis support throughout the United States and its territories, 24 hours a day. You do not have to be suicidal to contact it. People reach out about depression, panic, substance use, grief, loneliness, relationship problems, financial stress, and many other situations.

Spanish-language support is available by calling 988 and pressing 2, texting AYUDA to 988, or beginning a chat in Spanish. The Lifeline also provides videophone, text, chat, and relay options for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people.

Crisis Text Line

Text HOME to 741741 or start an online chat to reach a trained volunteer Crisis Counselor. Support is free, confidential, and available 24/7 in the United States.

Veterans, service members, and their loved ones

Call 988 and press 1, text 838255, or chat with the Veterans Crisis Line. The service is available 24/7, and you do not have to be enrolled in VA benefits or health care to use it.

LGBTQ+ young people

The Trevor Project provides free, confidential crisis support to LGBTQ+ young people across the United States, 24/7.

Domestic or relationship abuse

Contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline:

If someone may be monitoring your phone or internet use, consider using a safer device. The Hotline also provides digital-safety guidance.

Sexual assault or abuse

Contact RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline for free, confidential support, 24/7.

  1. Call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
  2. Text HOPE to 64673
  3. Chat online

Canada

9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline

Call 9-8-8 or text 9-8-8 at any time. Canada’s 9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline supports anyone in Canada who is thinking about suicide, feeling hopeless or overwhelmed, worried about someone else, or unsure whether what they are experiencing “counts” as a crisis.

If your safety is in immediate danger, call 9-1-1.

Kids Help Phone

Young people in Canada can contact Kids Help Phone 24/7.

  1. Call 1-800-668-6868
  2. Text CONNECT to 686868
  3. Use online messaging

First Nations, Inuit, and Métis support

The Hope for Wellness Help Line offers culturally competent crisis support to Indigenous people across Canada, 24/7.

  1. Call 1-855-242-3310
  2. Use the online chat

Phone support is available in English and French and, on request, in Cree, Ojibway, and Inuktitut.

United Kingdom and Ireland

Samaritans

Call 116 123 free, day or night, anywhere in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. Samaritans offers confidential, nonjudgmental emotional support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You can call about suicidal thoughts or anything else that feels difficult to carry alone.

United Kingdom text support

Text SHOUT to 85258 to contact Shout, a free and confidential 24/7 text service for people in the UK. If there is an immediate risk to life, call 999.

Urgent NHS mental-health support

In England, call NHS 111 and select the mental-health option for urgent mental-health support that is not immediately life-threatening. For an immediate threat to life or a serious medical emergency, call 999 or go to A&E.

Readers elsewhere in the UK can use the NHS urgent mental-health guidance to find the appropriate local route.

Republic of Ireland

For urgent mental-health guidance, see the HSE’s crisis-support page.

Text About It also provides free, anonymous support from trained volunteers, 24/7, through its current text and WhatsApp options. For an immediate emergency, call 112 or 999.

Australia

Lifeline Australia

Call 13 11 14, text 0477 13 11 14, or chat with Lifeline at any time. Lifeline Australia provides confidential, one-to-one crisis support from trained crisis supporters, 24/7.

If life is in danger, call 000.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander support

13YARN provides free, confidential, culturally safe crisis support from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Crisis Supporters. Call 13 92 76, 24 hours a day.

Support in other countries

Use Find A Helpline to search for verified phone, text, and chat services in more than 175 countries.

Helpline information can change. Follow the service’s official link to confirm its current hours and contact options. If you cannot reach a listed service and someone is in immediate danger, call the local emergency number.

If you are worried about someone else

Take what the person says seriously. It is okay to ask directly, “Are you thinking about suicide?” Asking the question does not put the idea in someone’s head. It can make room for an honest conversation.

Listen without debating, lecturing, or trying to solve everything in one sitting. Help the person contact a crisis service, health professional, trusted family member, or another source of immediate support. In the United States and Canada, you can contact 988 yourself for guidance about someone you are worried about.

If the person has already harmed themselves, has a suicide plan they may act on soon, or cannot remain safe, call emergency services.

A note about this directory

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Last Verified: August 2026