If you’re feeling suicidal, please use the links
below to access some immediate support.
Samaritans:
http://www.samaritans.org.uk/
Samaritans is available 24 hours a day to provide confidential
emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings
of distress or despair, including those that may lead to suicide.
Suicide support site:
http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/
Excellent web resource for those not ready to speak to someone
on the telephone.
Suicide and Crisis Help Lines around the World:
http://www.suicide-helplines.org/
This site provides access to the world's most comprehensive
directory of suicide and crisis help lines.
Also, here is some advice for people feeling suicidal:
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Reach out for help
that you feel able to accept. Isolation is an important
risk factor in suicide. Share your situation as much
as you can. For example, you could choose to share your
feelings with: |
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Family members and friends that
you trust |
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Samaritans or another crisis help
line |
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Your therapist, social worker,
teacher/student counsellor or psychiatric nurse |
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Your GP, community mental heath
team, or go to your local accident and emergency department |
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Don’t wait until things reach
crisis point before asking for help. |
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Get rid of items that you could
use to harm yourself – sharp objects or toxic
substances. If you have potentially harmful medications,
you could ask someone you trust to look after them and
give you your daily dose. |
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Avoid alcohol and recreational
drugs – they can make your moods more intense
and unstable and affect your judgement badly, making
you more impulsive. |
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Give yourself space from people
and situation that you know distress you or add to your
difficulties. |
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Think of things that have comforted
you in the past and try them now. |
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Give yourself structure and activities.
Try to do something that will give the day meaning.
Even going for a long work or making yourself a proper
meal may add to your sense of control. |
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Try to rediscover activities that
you have enjoyed in the past. |
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Try to get some contact with people
– even some casual social contact that isn’t
ideal may help you to become more stable. |
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Try to remember that there is a
difference between wanting pain to end and wanting to
destroy yourself. |
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Try to remember the impact that
your suicide will have on those around you, even if
part of you feels that your suicide won’t matter
– it will. |
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Remember that suicidal states pass. |
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When the danger has lessened, take
the opportunity to put some safeguards in place, try
and share your situation as described above. |
