Crisis & Immediate Support (Worldwide)
If you need help right now, you are not alone. This page is here to help you find immediate pathways for crisis support, emergency help, and urgent next steps in a calm and clear way.
🚨 Need Help Right Now?
If you or someone else is in immediate danger, at risk, or unable to stay safe, contact emergency services in your country right away. If urgent mental health support is needed, use your crisis line, text support, or emergency health service as soon as possible.
Emergency Numbers
Find urgent emergency numbers and country-based immediate help pathways when safety is at risk right now.
Find Emergency Help →Mental Health Crisis Support
Access crisis lines, urgent mental health support, and immediate care options for distress, overwhelm, or emotional crisis.
Find Mental Health Crisis Support →Text & Chat Support
Use text or chat-based help options if speaking on the phone feels too difficult, unsafe, or overwhelming right now.
Find Text & Chat Help →Suicide & Self-Harm Support
Find crisis support, urgent helplines, and immediate pathways for suicidal thoughts, self-harm risk, or helping someone else stay safe.
Find Suicide Support →Abuse, Safety & Domestic Violence
Access emergency help and safer support options for abuse, domestic violence, coercion, and urgent safety concerns.
Find Safety Support →Trauma & Emotional Distress
Find crisis pathways for panic, trauma distress, emotional overload, severe anxiety, and urgent emotional support needs.
Find Trauma Support →What to do right now
If everything feels too much, try not to solve everything at once. Focus only on the next safest step. These simple actions can help when things feel urgent or overwhelming.
1. Focus on safety
If you are in immediate danger, call emergency services or go to the nearest emergency department or urgent care support point.
2. Contact a support service
Use a crisis line, helpline, or text/chat service. You do not have to explain everything perfectly to ask for help.
3. Tell one safe person
If possible, message or call someone you trust and let them know you need help right now or need them to stay with you.
4. Reduce immediate pressure
Move away from anything unsafe if you can, get somewhere calmer, and focus on one next step instead of the whole day.
Helping someone else?
If you are here because you are worried about someone else, trust your instincts. If they are in immediate danger, contact emergency services. If they are overwhelmed but not in direct danger, stay calm, stay with them if you can, and help them reach a crisis support service.