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If you are in danger, call before you read.
This page is short on purpose. If you are thinking about ending your life, if you have hurt yourself, or if someone near you is not safe, call your local emergency number right now, or one of the lines below. They are free, they are real, and a person answers.
Immediate danger: call your local emergency number now. Do not wait to finish reading this page.
- United States 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Call or text 988
- United Kingdom and Ireland Samaritans Call 116 123
- Australia Lifeline Call 13 11 14
- Canada 988 Suicide Crisis Helpline Call or text 988
- Anywhere else International directory of helplines findahelpline.com
These are the only numbers this site lists, because they are the ones we can vouch for. If your country is not here, the directory above will find your local line.
Once you are safe, this page will still be here.
The Father is not put off by the state you are in. Two things Scripture says, for after the phone call.
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.Psalm 34:18
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”— even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.Psalm 139:11–12
Shepherd, the companion on this site, is not a crisis service and cannot call anyone for you. A pastor, a doctor, and the people on those lines can. Please let them.