Suicide Hotlines and Crisis Lines in Myanmar

A helpline is a place to talk to someone when you are struggling, before or instead of a crisis. The services on this page are answered by trained volunteers or by government case staff, depending on the service. If you are not in Myanmar, 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. What each service costs is set out beside it below; where an organisation does not publish a cost, we say so plainly rather than guessing.

TherapyRoute is a directory. We do not answer calls or messages ourselves, so please use the contacts below rather than contacting us if you need someone now.

CRISIS LINES, SUICIDE HOTLINES, AND HELPLINES IN MYANMAR

Each contact below was checked in August 2026 at the operating organisation's own website, or at the Myanmar government page that publishes the service.

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Emergency numbers, and what each one is for

Jue Jue's Safe Space, the national 24/7 suicide helpline

Department of Social Welfare Help Line, for gender-based violence

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

Myanmar publishes no single number that covers every emergency. Each service keeps its own number, and not every number could be confirmed at an official source.

Ambulance: 192

The Myanmar National Portal lists 192 as the ambulance number against public hospitals in Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon and Mandalay, on its own emergency contact table. Hours and cost are not published.

Fire: 191

The Fire Services Department, the national fire authority, publishes this number on its own reporting page: "Fire Emergency? Call 191".

Police: not confirmed. Aggregator sites circulate a national police number, but no official Myanmar page we reached publishes it, so this page does not print one. The government publishes region-by-region police telephone lists instead.

Jue Jue's Safe Space, the national 24/7 suicide helpline

Jue Jue's Safe Space is a Myanmar mental-health organisation running three round-the-clock helplines: a Suicide Helpline, a Peer Support Helpline and a Disaster Distress Helpline. There is no number to dial. Every helpline is reached by message.

In its own words, the organisation "provides a confidential 24/7 Suicide Helpline, offering support to individuals experiencing suicidal thoughts or emotional crisis". To reach it, open its Facebook page, tap the Request Support button and answer seven short questions. A trained volunteer will then contact you through Telegram.

The organisation says its volunteers "have been professionally trained and certified using U.S.-recognized peer support curricula under the guidance of a licensed mental health professional". Its Peer Support Helpline is for "people from all ethnic backgrounds across Myanmar", and its Burmese pages add that anyone abroad may use it too.

Because the helplines run through Facebook Messenger and then Telegram, you need an internet connection and a Facebook account to use them. If you have neither, the ambulance number above and a hospital emergency department remain open to you.

Chat: facebook.com/JueJuesSafeSpace, via the Request Support button.

Email: info@juejuessafespace.org

Hours: "available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week", in the organisation's own words.

Cost: free for the helplines. The organisation's Burmese pages state they "may be used free of charge" (အခမဲ့ အသုံးပြုနိုင်ပါသည်). It also sells counselling sessions, booked through the same chat; those are paid, and they are a separate service from the helplines.

Languages: Burmese and English.

Department of Social Welfare Help Line, for gender-based violence

The Department of Social Welfare (လူမှုဝန်ထမ်းဦးစီးဌာန), under the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, has run this Help Line since November 2016. It is a government line for reporting gender-based violence, including the rape of minors. It is a protection and case-management line, not a counselling or suicide line.

The department states that both the person affected and any member of the public who knows of a case may report. In its own words, "reports may be made in confidence, and particular care is taken to protect reporters' information from disclosure". Trained Case Managers are appointed in Nay Pyi Taw and in every region and state, and the department describes their work as covering safety, health, psychosocial, legal, livelihood and capacity-restoration needs.

Tel: 067-3404222

Tel: 067-3404999

Hours: not published. Nothing on the department's pages states whether the line is answered outside office hours.

Cost: not published. Both numbers are Nay Pyi Taw landlines rather than short codes, so a call from elsewhere in the country carries your operator's normal charge for that call.

While you are waiting to be answered

Myanmar's suicide helpline answers by message, and a volunteer may take a little time to reach you on Telegram. While you wait, try to stay with someone you trust, or ask someone to sit with you until the volunteer makes contact.

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 192 for an ambulance 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 send the first message to the helpline above, or to write it 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 helpline is open to you.

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

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