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
- 1900 6233Hours not yet confirmed — please also see findahelpline.com/vn
Vietnam
Vietnam — Tam Ngày Trò Chuyện (national mental health & suicide prevention helpline)
Volunteer line — "Ngày Mai"
Emergency services
- 98824 hours a day, every day — call or text 988
United States
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Emergency services
- 116 12324 hours a day, every day — free to call
United Kingdom
Samaritans
Emergency services
- 13 11 1424 hours a day, every day
Australia
Lifeline Australia
Emergency services
- 98824 hours a day, every day — call or text 988
Canada
9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline
Emergency services
- 1-76724 hours a day, every day
Singapore
Samaritans of Singapore (SOS)
Emergency services
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.