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If you need help right now

Healld is not an emergency service, and no app should be the thing standing between you and help. These numbers reach people trained for exactly this, and they are free.

Fastest routes

If someone is in immediate physical danger, call your local emergency number. 911 in the US, 112 across the EU and India, 999 in the UK.

While you wait for someone to pick up

  1. 1

    Get to a safer place

    If you have the means to hurt yourself nearby, put distance between you and them: another room, a locked drawer, a neighbour’s house. Distance buys time, and time is what this needs.

  2. 2

    Tell one person

    It does not have to be the right person or the right words. “I am not safe right now” is a complete sentence. A friend, a family member, a helpline volunteer. One human who knows.

  3. 3

    Stay until it shifts

    Crisis states are intense and they do move. You do not have to feel better to get through the next hour. Slow your breathing, keep someone on the line, and let the hour pass.

Helplines by country

Numbers last checked against their operators on 23 September 2026.

Not listed here? The Find A Helpline directory covers more than 130 countries. Numbers change; if one does not connect, try your local emergency number.

If you are worried about someone else

Ask directly. Asking someone whether they are thinking about suicide does not plant the idea. Decades of research say the opposite, that a direct question is a relief.

Listen without fixing. You do not need the right answer. Staying, and not flinching, is most of the job.

Do not promise secrecy you cannot keep, and do not leave someone alone if they are in immediate danger. Call a helpline yourself, because every number on this page will talk to a worried friend too.

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