Self-Harm & Suicide
Immediate support for suicidal thoughts, self-harm, urges, plans, or emotional crisis situations.
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Choose a topic below to find crisis support pathways, helplines, and resources that match the situation. This page is here to help people move from “something is wrong” toward a clearer next step.
This page helps you find crisis support by the situation or topic that feels closest to what is happening. You can start broadly, search for a specific concern, or use more than one pathway when needs overlap.
Simple pathways for immediate safety, thoughts of harm, overwhelming life pressures, and specialist support needs.
A searchable topic finder so you can look for words such as trauma, grief, housing, workplace, ADHD, abuse, addiction, or online harm.
Direct routes into established crisis-support pages covering mental health, safety, trauma, substance use, practical crisis, neurodivergence, and more.
Guidance for overlapping needs, plus links to crisis support by audience, location, accessibility, and the wider Crisis Support family.
Use these starting points if you are unsure which topic to choose.
Use emergency services, local crisis support, domestic violence support, legal/personal safety support, or urgent medical help first.
Choose self-harm, suicide, mental health crisis, or immediate safety support.
Look at housing, financial, workplace, grief, relationship, health, immigration/refugee, or family crisis topics.
Use trauma, abuse, eating disorder, addiction, neurodivergent, ADHD, accessibility, language, or digital safety pathways.
Search by topic, need, situation, or type of crisis.
Topic support can be used at any age. These optional choices help point you toward a more suitable audience pathway as well.
Immediate support for suicidal thoughts, self-harm, urges, plans, or emotional crisis situations.
Open Self-Harm & SuicideSupport for panic, severe anxiety, depression, overwhelm, shutdown, or intense emotional distress.
Open Mental Health CrisisHelp for people experiencing harm, coercive control, unsafe environments, family violence, or needing protection.
Open Abuse & Domestic ViolenceConfidential support for survivors of sexual harm, assault, trauma, and unsafe experiences.
Open Sexual Abuse & AssaultSupport for trauma responses, flashbacks, panic, dissociation, and distress after difficult experiences.
Open Trauma & PTSDSupport during bereavement, sudden loss, complicated grief, or overwhelming emotional pain.
Open Grief & LossSupport for drug, alcohol, gambling, and substance-related crisis situations.
Open Addiction & Substance UseImmediate help for overdose, withdrawal, substance emergencies, or unsafe intoxication.
Open Alcohol & Drug CrisisSupport for disordered eating, body distress, health concerns, and eating disorder-related crisis.
Open Eating DisordersHelp with homelessness, housing insecurity, financial stress, debt, and urgent life instability.
Open Housing & Financial CrisisSupport for overwhelm, burnout, shutdown, meltdown, communication barriers, and sensory distress.
Open Neurodivergent Crisis SupportSupport for emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, rejection sensitivity, overwhelm, and ADHD burnout.
Open ADHD Crisis SupportSupport for threats, stalking, harassment, unsafe situations, or times when personal safety is at risk.
Open Legal & Personal Safety CrisisSupport for people without safe housing, including emergency accommodation and shelter access.
Open Homelessness & Emergency ShelterSupport for families navigating crisis situations, including supporting a loved one in distress.
Open Parents & Carers SupportSpecialised crisis support for children and teenagers experiencing emotional distress or risk.
Open Children & Youth SupportSupport for job loss, workplace stress, burnout, employment instability, bullying, discrimination, or work-related crisis.
Open Workplace & Employment CrisisSupport for displacement, migration stress, refugee experiences, relocation, immigration-related crisis, safety worries, legal concerns, housing, and urgent help pathways.
Open Immigration & Refugee CrisisSupport for online abuse, cyberbullying, harassment, stalking, image-based harm, and digital safety concerns.
Open Online Harm & CyberbullyingSupport for serious health-related distress, medical emergencies, illness-related crisis, medication access worries, or urgent health concerns.
Open Medical & Health Crisis SupportTopic-based support can help when the crisis is connected to a specific situation, risk, or life pressure. It can make it easier to find the right type of service instead of searching through every support option at once.
Some people may need more than one pathway. For example, someone experiencing family violence may also need housing support, legal safety, trauma support, financial help, and child-safe support. It is okay to use more than one topic page.
If there is immediate risk, choose the pathway connected to urgent safety, emergency support, or crisis contact first.
Once immediate safety is addressed, practical needs like housing, finances, work, school, family, immigration/refugee support, legal safety, or health support may also matter.
Topic support can work alongside audience, location, accessibility, communication, and global crisis-finder pathways.
Use the main multi-step finder when age, location, urgency, access needs, or several overlapping contexts matter together.
Open Main Crisis FinderChoose support by age, role, identity, disability, culture, or who needs help.
Open Crisis Support by AudienceFind culturally responsive, faith-aware, identity-aware, Māori, Pasifika, Rainbow and community-specific support pathways.
Open Culture & Community SupportFind regional or country-based support and emergency pathways.
Open Crisis Support by LocationFor communication, sensory, disability, neurodivergent, language, and other access needs.
Open Accessibility Crisis SupportUse the broader finder when you want location, topic, communication, and accessibility pathways together.
Open Global Crisis DirectoryUse written crisis support when calling is difficult, inaccessible, unsafe, or overwhelming.
Open Text & Chat Crisis SupportFind broader helpline and listening-support pathways across countries.
Open International HelplinesYou do not need to describe everything perfectly. Choose the topic that feels closest, follow the safest next step, and come back later if you need another pathway.
Aspie Answers provides education, signposting, and supportive information. This page is not a replacement for emergency care, medical advice, therapy, legal advice, safeguarding procedures, domestic violence support, addiction treatment, immigration advice, employment advice, or professional crisis assessment. In an emergency, contact local emergency services immediately.