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if you need help now

Nobody reads what you write here. The app is not monitored, there is no one on the other side of it, and writing something down — however hard — does not reach me or anyone else. That privacy is deliberate. It also means the app cannot help in a crisis, so here is where help actually lives.

  • Emergency services

    999

    If your life or someone else's is in danger now, or someone is badly hurt.

    24 hours

  • NHS 111

    111 — press 2 for mental health

    If it is urgent but not life-threatening, and you are not sure where to turn. They will tell you where to go.

    24 hours, free

  • Samaritans

    116 123

    If you need to say it out loud to someone who will simply listen. You do not have to be in crisis to ring them.

    24 hours, free from any phone · jo@samaritans.org

  • Shout

    Text SHOUT to 85258

    If speaking is too much, or you cannot be overheard.

    24 hours, free and silent

  • National Domestic Abuse Helpline

    0808 2000 247

    If the danger is at home.

    24 hours, free

  • Your GP

    The surgery you are registered with

    For anything that belongs with a clinician — and for the things that have been going on for a while, not only the ones that arrived today.

These are UK services. If you are somewhere else, findahelpline.com lists the equivalents where you are.

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