Mental Health Resources

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When members ask for help, please provide support on their own threads.

If they request resources please refer them to this sticky post.

To fellow sufferers ~

If you need help finding mental health services and support in your community in the US:
National Mental Health Association Information Center
www.nmha.org

In the USA, call your local County Health Department and request information about free or sliding scale emotional and mental health resources.

Some websites –

USA - Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline -
1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453)
Serving the United States, its territories, and Canada, the Hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week .

http://www.teachhotline.org
1-800-273-TALK.
It's the teen suicide/depression/loneliness hotline.

USA - National Domestic Violence Hotline
800-799-SAFE
(800-799-7233)

USA, US Territories, Canada
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline -
1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453)
The Hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week .

Please leave the subject of suicidal ideation off your messages. It is triggering to others that are barely holding on. Please use the word depression, instead.

If you you have thoughts of suicide, you need LIVE help, now. No one on this website is qualified to help you.

Do not try to handle suicidal thoughts by yourself. Please do not try to go it alone~
Get professionals involved immediately.

People do know how to get you the help you need.
Don't give up asking for help. If you really don't plan to harm yourself, then still go to a professional and admit that you are anxious, depressed and/or stuck and don't know what to do to turn around some of the issues that have kept you there.

If you are suicidal, right now, immediately call 911 if in America, or call a hospital, or call local police for emergency help.[/B]

For the UK, the suicide prevention number is: 08457 90 90 90

Please feel free to talk about your depression, and let members here encourage you or help you with solutions to problems. But, the boards are NOT an appropriate place for posting that you want to die or threats to commit suicide, hurt others, or to hurt yourself. Such posts will be removed. They are inappropriate here.

http://www.samaritans.org.uk/talk/home.html

http://www.suicidology.org/crisis_centers_in_your_area.htm

If in UK or Ireland
http://www.samaritans.org.

http://www.teachhotline.org
1-800-273-TALK
It's the teen suicide/depression/loneliness hotline.

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

USA - National Suicide Hotline
800-273-TALK (800-273-8255)

USA - National Domestic Violence Hotline
800-799-SAFE (800-799-7233)

Please get live help to see where to start.
Getting well may hard work, but you can do it.