You don't have to carry this alone
If you are thinking about suicide or self-harm, or you are supporting someone who is, these lines are answered by real people, any hour of the day. Nothing you have written or posted here is affected by reaching out — HALUMA never asks you to hide what you feel.
Crisis lines by country
Vietnam
Vietnam — Tam Ngày Trò Chuyện (national mental health & suicide prevention helpline)
1900 6233Hours not yet confirmed — please also see findahelpline.com/vn
Emergency services
115United States
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
98824 hours a day, every day — call or text 988
Emergency services
911United Kingdom
Samaritans
116 12324 hours a day, every day — free to call
Emergency services
999Australia
Lifeline Australia
13 11 1424 hours a day, every day
Emergency services
000Canada
9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline
98824 hours a day, every day — call or text 988
Emergency services
911Singapore
Samaritans of Singapore (SOS)
1-76724 hours a day, every day
Emergency services
995
These numbers are gathered with care and reviewed by the HALUMA team, but phone lines change — if one is wrong, please tell us so we can fix it.
Beyond a hotline
Grief and crisis are not always the same thing, but they often arrive together. If you are further from crisis and closer to grief, the people who already love this person — the letters, the tributes, the space you were just writing in — are one place to stay a while.
A few more places
findahelpline.com
A global directory of crisis lines by country — useful if you are outside the six above.
GriefShare
A worldwide network of grief support groups, in person and online.
What's Your Grief
Articles and exercises written by grief therapists, free to read.
Curated by the HALUMA team. Not sponsored. Not AI-generated.