Suicide Hotlines and Crisis Lines in Bahrain

A helpline is a place to talk to someone when you are struggling, before or instead of a crisis. The lines on this page are answered by ministries, a national council and their centres, and each answers a particular group of callers. If you are not in Bahrain, the worldwide list is organised by country.

What you share is kept private in almost all cases; if a counsellor believes a life is in immediate danger, they may arrange urgent help. Only one of the services below publishes what a call costs, so where a cost is not shown, none has been published. The same is true of languages: none of these services publishes which languages it answers in.

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CRISIS LINES, SUICIDE HOTLINES, AND HELPLINES IN BAHRAIN

Each number below was checked in August 2026 at the Kingdom of Bahrain's national portal, or at the website of the ministry or council that runs the service.

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Emergency numbers, and what each one is for

Child Helpline 998, answered around the clock

The family violence number, 17430515

Women's Support Center, 8000 8006

Ministry of Social Development hotline, 80008001

The Psychiatric Hospital, a clinical route rather than a helpline

While you are waiting to be answered

If you are worried about someone else

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Emergency numbers, and what each one is for

Bahrain runs one short code for the main emergencies and a second for the roads. Both come from the Kingdom's own Directory of Emergency Hotline Numbers.

Ambulance, police and civil defence: 999

The directory lists 999 three times, as "Ambulance 999", "Police Rescue 999" and "Civil Defense 999". One number reaches all three, so say which service you need when you are answered.

Traffic accidents: 199

The directory lists this as "Traffic Accident 199".

There is no national three-digit mental health line in Bahrain. When the danger is to a life, 999 is the number that answers at any hour.

Child Helpline 998, answered around the clock

The Child Protection Centre (خط نجدة ومساندة الطفل 998) is run by the Ministry of Social Development, and its helpline answers children and anyone calling about a child. In the ministry's own words, it "works to protect children up to the age of 18 from all forms of abuse and neglect".

The ministry describes the line as "a service for receiving calls to report children being subjected to violence or abuse", and says it "also provides counseling, active listening and referral services". The centre lists psychological evaluation and support among what it provides.

Tel: 998 - 17103280

Email: 998@social.gov.bh

Hours: 24 hours. The ministry's Arabic page states the line operates around the clock; its English page does not repeat this.

Cost: "a free telephone line", in the ministry's own words.

The family violence number, 17430515

The Kingdom's Directory of Emergency Hotline Numbers lists this line as "Family Protection" in English and as العنف الأسري, family violence, in Arabic. It sits in the national directory alongside 999 and 199, with no regional limit stated.

The national portal's Women Safety and Protection page attributes the same number to the Aisha Yateem Center for Family Counselling, a civil society centre, and gives a second number alongside it. Neither government page publishes who answers the line.

Tel: 17430488 - 17430515

Hours: not published.

Cost: not published.

Women's Support Center, 8000 8006

The Women's Support Center belongs to the General Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Women, a national body, and it answers women. The council says the centre's structure includes "a sufficient number of social, psychological, and legal specialists with experience in women and family issues".

Among the services the council lists are "Receiving requests pertaining to women's affairs and urgent issues" and family counselling "on social, psychological, legal, and economic aspects of situations where support is needed". Some of its listed services, such as judicial assistance, are restricted to Bahraini women.

Alongside the telephone line, the council links an e-consulting and guidance channel and a Women's Support Center smartphone app for iOS and Android.

Tel: 8000 8006

Email: support.women@scw.bh

Hours: not published.

Cost: not published.

Ministry of Social Development hotline, 80008001

This is the Ministry of Social Development's own hotline, printed in the header of every page of its website. The national portal lists it as the route to the ministry's "Family Counseling Center - Dar Al-Aman", its family counselling centre and shelter.

Whether the line is staffed by counsellors is not published, so treat it as the ministry's front door rather than a counselling line in itself.

Tel: 80008001

Email: info@social.gov.bh

Hours: not published.

Cost: not published.

The Psychiatric Hospital, a clinical route rather than a helpline

The Psychiatric Hospital is the Kingdom's psychiatric hospital, run by the Ministry of Health. It is a hospital with a switchboard, not a helpline: nobody is published as waiting on these numbers to take a crisis call.

The ministry states that community mental health care is integrated into primary health care, with clinics serving people aged 18 and above on referral from health centre physicians. It states that children under 18 and people with addiction problems are transferred to special units in the psychiatric hospital.

Tel (main switchboard): +973-17288888

Tel (appointments and referrals): +973-17279311

Hours: not published.

Cost: not published.

While you are waiting to be answered

Most of the lines above do not publish their hours, and a line that is open can still be busy. If you are waiting, try to stay with someone you trust, or ask someone to sit with you until the call connects.

If you have anything near you that you could use to harm yourself, put it somewhere harder to reach, or ask someone else to hold it for you. Distance and time both help.

If waiting is not possible, dial 999 or go to a hospital emergency department. You do not need an appointment and you do not need to explain yourself well.

If you are worried about someone else

Ask them directly. Asking someone whether they are thinking of suicide does not put the idea there, and it often comes as a relief to be asked plainly.

Listen more than you advise. You do not need the right words, and you are not expected to fix anything.

If they are willing, offer to sit with them while they call one of the numbers above, or to make the call together. If they are in immediate danger, treat it as you would any medical emergency.

Supporting someone through this is heavy, and it is reasonable to want support of your own. The same lines are open to you.

For services in other countries, see the list of helplines and suicide hotlines worldwide.

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