Suicide Hotlines and Crisis Lines in the United Kingdom
❝Crisis lines and suicide hotlines in the United Kingdom offer you the lifeline you need when you need it most. Reach for the phone, make the call, you have nothing to lose.❞
Helplines, crisis lines, and suicide hotlines let you reach out whenever you need and offer a chance to discuss things you might not be ready to share face-to-face.
They are a great way to be heard and get sound advice. Many are open 24/7, and all are free and confidential.
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CRISIS LINES, SUICIDE HOTLINES, AND HELPLINES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
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Find Your TherapistCampaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
Scotland’s Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
Mental Health Matters Helpline
Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service - Connect Helpline
Staffordshire Mental Health Helpline - Brighter Futures
Mental Health Helpline for Wales
National Suicide Helpline UK
National Suicide Helpline UK offers a supportive listening service to anyone throughout the UK with thoughts of suicide or thoughts of self-harm. They are open 24/7.
Tel: 0800 689 5652
Samaritans UK
Samaritans UK offers 24-hour emotional support to anyone in distress or at risk of suicide throughout the UK and Ireland. They have 201 branches open 365 days a year, where people can also talk in person.
Tel: 116123
Connect Counselling
Connect offers a free telephone counselling and support service for any adult who has experienced abuse, trauma, or neglect in childhood. Their service is available from 18:00 to 22:00, Wednesday to Sunday.
Tel: 1800 477 477 (Ireland)
Tel: 00800 477 477 77 (UK and Northern Ireland)
Tel: 00353 (0) 1 865 7495 (Outside ROI and UK)
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
Campaign Against Living Miserably Help provides support for young men aged 15 to 35 years of age on issues that include depression and suicide.
Tel: 0800 585858
Hopeline UK
Hopeline UK is a free, confidential, non-judgmental space to talk openly about your thoughts of suicide.
Tel: 0800 068 4141
Text: 07860039967
Premier Lifeline
Premier Lifeline is a helpline providing a listening service, information, as well as emotional and spiritual support from a Christian perspective.
Tel: 0300 111 0101
Breathing Space
Breathing Space provides emotional support and assistance to people in Scotland who are depressed, in crisis, or at risk of suicide. They operate from 18:00 to 02:00.
Tel: 0800 83 85 87
Scotland’s Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline
Scotland’s Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline is open 24 hours a day to help and give emotional support to anyone with experience of domestic abuse or forced marriage.
Tel: 0800 027 1234
Anxiety UK
Anxiety UK works to relieve and support those living with anxiety and anxiety-based depression by providing information, support, and understanding via an extensive range of services, including one-on-one therapy.
Tel: 03444 775 774
Mind
Mind provides advice and support to empower anyone in the UK who is experiencing a mental health problem. Their lines are open from 09:00 to 18:00, Monday to Friday.
Tel: 0300 123 3393
Tel: 0121 262 3555 (Birmingham)
No Panic
No Panic offers support and services over the telephone to people in the UK who suffer from panic attacks, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorders, and other related anxiety disorders including those people who are trying to give up tranquillisers. Their line is available from 10:00 to 22:00 every day. After 22:00, their number plays a recording of a breathing and relaxation technique.
Tel: 0844 967 4848
OCD Action
OCD Action provides support and information for people in the UK with OCD, carers, and anyone who is concerned that they, or their friends or relatives, may have OCD or a related disorder. The helpline is open from 09:30 to 17:00, Monday to Friday.
Tel: 0300 636 5478
Tel: 44 20 7253 5272
SANE
SANE provides emotional support, guidance, and information to anyone in the UK who is affected by mental illness, including families, friends and carers. They are open from 10:00 to 22:00, Monday to Friday.
Tel: 0300 304 7000
Childline
Childline offers 24-hour free, private, and confidential services to children and parents throughout the UK. Whatever your worry, whenever you need help, they can help you anytime.
Tel: 0800 1111
Refuge
Refuge offers 24-hour services and support to women and children in the UK who are experiencing domestic abuse.
Tel: 0808 2000 247
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
NSPCC offers 24-hour help and support to children in the UK who are experiencing abuse or neglect.
Tel: 0808 800 5000
National Gambling Helpline
National Gambling Helpline offers 24-hour free and confidential support, information, and advice on problem gambling to people in the UK, either via telephone or online.
Tel: 0808 8020 133
Narcotics Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous offers support and advice to people in the UK who have a drug problem. The Narcotics Anonymous Helpline is open until midnight, 7 days a week.
Tel: 0300 999 1212
National Dementia Helpline
National Dementia Helpline provides information, advice, and emotional support to anyone in the UK affected by dementia. They are open 7 days a week from 09:00 to 17:00.
Tel: 0300 222 11 22
Cruse Bereavement Care
Cruse Bereavement Care offers a listening ear and emotional support to anyone in the UK who has lost someone they love or has been affected by a bereavement. The helpline is open Monday to Friday from 09:30 to 17:00.
Tel: 0808 808 1677
Rape Crisis National Helpline
Rape Crisis National Helpline offers confidential emotional support, information, and referral details to women and girls in the UK who have experienced sexual violence. They are open between 12:00 -14:30 and 19:00 - 21:30 every day of the year.
Tel: 0808 802 9999
Victim Support
Victim Support provides 24-hour confidential support and information to people in England and Wales who have been affected by crime.
Tel: 0808 168 9111
Beat
Beat offers support to people in the UK who have or are worried that they have an eating disorder, as well as others affected such as friends and family members. Beat’s support services are open 365 days a year, from 12:00 to 20:00, Monday to Friday and from 16:00 to 20:00 on Saturdays and Sundays.
Tel: 0808 801 0677 (Adult)
Tel: 0808 801 0711 (Under 18's)
Mencap
Mencap offers support and services to people in the UK who have learning disabilities. They are open from 09:00 to 15:00.
Tel: 0808 808 1111
Family Lives
Family Lives offers a confidential and free helpline service for families in England and Wales. Their helpline service is open from 09:00 to 21:00 every Monday to Friday and from 10:00 to 15:00 on Saturdays and Sundays.
Tel: 0808 800 2222
Mental Health Matters Helpline
Mental Health Matters Helpline offers 24-hour emotional support to people in Hertfordshire, Coventry and Warwickshire, Stafford, Midlands and East Veterans, Leicestershire and Rutland Recovery Service, and Plymouth who are in distress or at risk of suicide.
Tel: 0800 052 0658 (Hertfordshire)
Tel: 0800 616 171 (Coventry and Warwickshire)
Tel: 0800 0130 626 (Stafford)
Tel: 0300 323 0139 (Midlands and East Veterans Service)
Tel: 0300 323 0187 (Leicestershire and Rutland Recovery Service)
Tel: 0300 323 0101 (Plymouth)
Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service - Connect Helpline
Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service - Connect Helpline provides emotional support and information for people living in Leeds who are in crisis, anxious, depressed, or lonely. They are open from 18:00 to 02:00 every day.
Tel: 0808 800 1212
MindLine
MindLine offers a free listening service to anyone in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Bromley, Lewisham, Greenwich, Cumbria, South Devon, Torbay, Somerset, and Central Norfolk who needs to talk about emotional or mental health distress including anxiety, depression, loneliness, self-injury, suicidal feelings, trauma, loss, or concern for a family member or friend.
Tel: 0808 808 0330 (Bristol Mind - Wednesday to Sunday from 20:00 to 00:00)
Tel: 020 8853 1735 (Bromley, Lewisham & Greenwich Mind - Monday to Friday 10:30 to 16:30, and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 18:00 to 21:00)
Tel: 0300 561 0000 (Mindline Cumbria - Monday to Friday from 12:00 to 23:00, and Saturdays and Sundays from 17:00 to 23:00)
Tel: 0300 330 5464 (Mindline South Devon and Torbay - Tuesday to Sunday from 20:00 to 23:00)
Tel: 01823 276892 (Mindline Somerset - Tuesday to Sunday from 20:00 to 23:00)
Tel: 0808 802 0288 (Norwich & Central Norfolk Mind - Monday to Thursday from 14:00 to 00:00, and every Friday from 14:00 to 00:00 on Sunday)
Oxford Nightline
Oxford Nightline provides support and information service for and by students of Oxford and Oxford Brookes universities. They are open from 20:00 to 08:00, 0th week to 9th week during Oxford term time.
Tel: 01865 270270
Rethink Mental Illness
Rethink Mental Illness provides telephone support service for anyone affected by mental health issues.
Tel: 0808 801 0442 (Doncaster - 24/7)
Tel: 0808 801 0358 (Doncaster Bassetlaw - 24/7)
Tel: 0808 802 2288 (Dudley - Monday to Friday from 18:00 to 01:00, and every Saturday and Sunday from 14:00 to 01:00)
Tel: 0808 801 0606 / 07537 410022 (Gloucestershire - Monday to Sunday from 17:00 to 22:00)
Tel: 0808 800 1010 (North East Lincolnshire - Monday to Friday from 17:00 to 09:00)
Tel: 0808 800 2073 (Sahayak - languages available: Gujarati, Punjabi, Hindu, and Urdu or English. Monday and Wednesday from 16:00 to 19:00, and Tuesday and Thursday from 12:00 to 15:00)
Tel: 0808 801 0440 (Sheffield - 24/7)
Rural Support
Rural Support provides a listening and signposting service for farmers and farming families across Northern Ireland through its helpline. The Helpline can provide information and advice on mental health assistance and many other issues. All calls are confidential and the helpline operates from 08:00 to 23:00, Monday to Friday.
Tel: 0800 138 1678
Staffordshire Mental Health Helpline - Brighter Futures
Staffordshire Mental Health Helpline offers support for people in Staffordshire who are feeling worried, stressed or low, or are concerned about someone they know. They are open Monday to Friday from 19:00 to 02:00, and Saturdays and Sundays from 14:00 to 02:00.
Tel: 0808 800 2234
Turning Point
Turning Point offers 24-hour support to members of the public in Leicestershire during a crisis. If you reach Turning Point on the phone but unable to get through, you can leave your name and phone number. They will call you back as soon as possible.
Tel: 0808 800 3302
Self-Injury Support
Self-Injury Support offers emotional support, listening, and signposting for women affected by self-injury. They are open every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 19:00 to 21:00.
Tel: 0808 800 8088
SupportLine
SupportLine offers emotional support, advice, and information particularly for people in the UK who are socially isolated, vulnerable, at-risk, or experiencing any form of abuse. They are open every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 18:00 to 20:00.
Tel: 01708 765200
YoungMinds - Parents Helpline
YoungMinds - Parents Helpline offers confidential online and telephone support including information and advice to people in the UK who are worried about the emotional problems, behaviour, or mental health of a child or young person. They are open Monday to Friday from 09.30 to 16:00.
Tel: 0808 802 5544
Edinburgh Crisis Centre
Edinburgh Crisis Centre offers 24-hour support to people in Edinburgh, Scotland who are dealing with anxiety, depression, panic attacks, self-harm, suicide, or hearing voices.
Tel: 0808 801 0414
Mental Health Helpline for Wales
Mental Health Helpline for Wales offers 24-hour emotional support and information/literature on mental health and related matters to the people of Wales.
Tel: 0800 132 737
Get Connected
Get Connected is a free and confidential telephone, email, and webchat service helping young people across the UK.
Tel: 0808 808 4994
SMS: 80849
Maytree
Maytree offers confidential advice and support to people across the UK who are in distress or at risk of suicide.
Tel: 020 7263 7070
Hope Project
The Hope Project provides short-term emotional and practical support for men aged 30-64, specifically those who are in psychological distress or have recently self-harmed.
Tel: 0117 909 6630
The Mix
The Mix provides free, confidential support for young people under the age of 25 across the UK via online, social, and mobile.
Tel: 0808 808 4994
Text: THEMIX to 85258.
Chat: https://www.themix.org.uk/get-support/speak-to-our-team
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