These are free, open right now, and you do not need to be in crisis to use them. You can text two of them if talking is too much.
What you are experiencing right now is temporary. Not permanently. Temporarily.
The state you are in has an end point. It has ended before. You have been in states like this before and you are still here.
You do not have to solve anything right now. You do not have to understand it, explain it, or fix it right now.
One thing. One step. Right now: call or text 9-8-8, or text someone you trust, or put your feet on the floor and breathe out slowly.
Just that one thing.
If you are with somebody else
Stay. Say short sentences. Do not analyse, do not advise, and do not leave them alone to make the call. The numbers above are for you as much as for them.
The card, on paper
Six wallet cards to a sheet, all four numbers on every one, and a code that comes back to this page. Print it, cut along the lines, and give one to everybody in the room — a card in a pocket works when a phone is dead and when nobody wants to be seen looking something up. Download the access card — PDF, 231 KB, free, and it asks you for nothing.
What this is, and is not
The boundary of what this material does, what this site collects, and what has not been built yet: scope and limits.
If somebody else is not safe7 steps