Feeling Unsafe
(at risk of harm to self or others)?
- Call loved ones who are not triggers.
- Call your outpatient therapist.
- Call your outpatient prescriber.
- If your outpatient therapist or prescriber are away, ask to talk to the ‘on-call’ person.
- Call a sponsor or clean & sober fellow AA/NA/GA/XA attendee (not of gender you are attracted to) who has kindly provided their phone number to you.
- Walk to the nearest Emergency Room.
- Call 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) or 988.
- Call 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)
- Español/Spanish: Call 1-888-628-9454 OR 1-800-273-8255 Press 1.
- TDD/TDY (Telecommunication Device for the Deaf): Call 1-800-799-4889.
- Text HOME or GOT5 or DESERVE to 741741.
- AIDS Crisis Line: 1-800-221-7044
- American Association of Poison Control Centers: 1-800-222-1222
- LGBT Hotline: 1-888-843-4564
- Lifeline Crisis Chat (on-line live messaging)
- National Council on Alcohol & Drug Dependence Hope Line: 1-800-622-2255
- National Crisis Line: 1-800-233-4357
- National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
- National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (1-800-656-4673)
- Planned Parenthood Hotline: 1-800-230-PLAN (1-800-230-7526)
- Self-harm Hotline: 1-800-366-8288
- Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860
- TREVOR Crisis Hotline for LGBTQIA+ Youth: 1-866-488-7386
- Veterans’ Crisis Line
- You have the power to say: “This is not how my story will end.”.
- If you are looking for a sign NOT to KILL YOURSELF, this is it:
PLEASE DON’T KILL YOURSELF.
7/18/25 update: With the removal of the “press 3” option when you call 988, Hey Sam wants to remind you that Youth ages 15-24 can text Hey Sam at 439-726 | 9AM-midnight ET. [from Samaritans, Inc.]