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Helplines for support, advice and guidance
Please contact any of the helplines below if you feel you may require their help. Please feel free to contact me if you would like me to add any other helplines that you think may be helpful to other people.
Thank you, and as always, stay safe, and take care.
Alcoholics Anonymous - if you need help with a drinking problem.
Tel: 0800 917 7650
Email: help@aamail.org
Anxiety UK – offers support and information for people living with anxiety.
Tel: 0344 477 5774
Text: 0753 741 6905
Email: support@anxiety.org.uk
BEAT - offers support and information for those living with eating disorders.
Adult:- Tel: 0808 801 0677
Email: help@beateatingdisorders.org.uk
Student Tel: 0808 801 0811
Email: studentline@beateatingdisorders.org.uk
Under 18s:- Tel: 0808 801 0711
Email: fyp@beateatingdisorders.org.uk
Befrienders Worldwide – the website has a tool to search by country for emotional support helplines around the world.
Bipolar UK – provides information and support for people living with bipolar.
Tel: 0333 323 3880
Email: info@bipolaruk.org
Breathing Space – provides emotional support and assistance to people in Scotland who are depressed, in crisis or at risk of suicide.
Tel: 0800 838587
CALL – Community Advice and Listening Line
Tel: 0800 132737
Text: ‘help’ followed by a question to 81066
CALM - Campaign Against Living Miserably – provides support issues including depression and suicide.
Tel: 0800 585858
Carers UK - offers help and advice to those caring for someone else.
Tel: 0808 8087777
Email: advice@carersuk.org
Childline - a confidential line for children to call if they need help or advice about any topic.
Tel: 0800 1111
Access one-to-one counselling
Email by signing into your Childline Locker
Cruse Bereavement Care – offers emotional support to anyone in the UK who has lost someone they love or has been affected by a bereavement.
Tel: 0808 8081677
Helplines Partnership – a website for a directory of UK Helplines.
HopeLine UK – offers practical advice on suicide prevention.
Tel: 0800 0684141
Hourglass - offers support to those experiencing elder abuse, or those worried about someone.
Tel: 0808 808 8141
Text: 0786 005 2906
Email: helpline@wearehourglass.org 24/7
Mencap - offers support and services to people in the UK who have learning disabilities.
Tel: 0808 808 1111
Mind - provides advice and support for people in the UK who are suffering with mental health issues.
Tel: 0300 1233393
Email: info@mind.org.uk
Narcotics Anonymous - offers support and advice to people in the UK who have a drug problem. The NA Helpline is open until midnight, seven days a week.
Tel: 0300 999 1212
National Dementia Helpline - provides information, advice and emotional support to anyone in the UK affected by dementia. They are open seven days a week from 9 am–5 pm.
Tel: 0300 222 11 22
National Gambling Helpline – offers information, support, and advice on gambling to people in the UK.
Tel: 0808 8020133
National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK – offers a supportive listening service to anyone with thoughts of suicide.
Tel: 0800 6895652
NHS Mental Health Services -
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If it’s an emergency or you need urgent help
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If you or someone else is in danger, call 999 or go to A&E now
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If you need help urgently for your mental health, but it's not an emergency, get help from NHS 111 online or call 111
Nightline website – students can check this website to see if your university or college offers a night-time listening service. Nightline phone operators are all students too.
No Panic - offers support and information for people in the UK suffering with anxiety disorders including panic attacks, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
Tel: 0300 772 9844 – 0844 9674848
Under 18s Tel: 0330 606 1174
Email: sarah@nopanic.org.uk
NSPCC - offers support to those worried about a child.
Tel: 0808 800 5000
Email: help@nspcc.org.uk
OCD Action - offers support and advice for those living with OCD.
Tel: 0300 636 5478
Email: support@ocdaction.org.uk
PANDAS - offers peer to peer support for those affected by perinatal mental illness.
Tel: 0808 1961 776
Email: info@pandasfoundation.org.uk
Papyrus UK – if you are under 35 and struggling with suicidal thoughts, or concerned about a young person, get in touch.
Tel: 0800 068 4141
Text: 0786 003 9967 – 07786 209 697
Email: pat@papyrus-uk.org
Premier Lifeline – provides a listening service, information, emotional and spiritual support from a Christian perspective.
Tel: 0300 111 0101
Rape Crisis National Helpline – offers confidential emotional support, information for people in the UK who have experienced sexual violence.
Tel: 0808 802 9999
Refuge - supports women and children who have experienced domestic abuse by offering refugees and recovery services.
Tel: 0808 200 0247
Respect Men’s Advice Line – offers help and advice for male victims of domestic abuse.
Tel: 0808 801 0327
Email: info@mensadviceline.org.uk
Samaritans - offers a listening service to talk about anything that is troubling you.
Tel: 116 123
Email: jo@samaritans.org
SANEline - offers support and information for anyone in the UK who is experiencing or supporting someone else with mental health issues.
Tel: 0300 304 7000
Email: support@sane.org.uk
Scope – offers advice on issues that matter to disabled people and their families.
Tel: 0808 800 3333
Email: helpline@scope.org.uk
Shout – if you would prefer not to talk, but would like some mental health support, Shout offers a confidential 24/7 text service providing support if you are in crisis and need immediate help.
Text 'shout' to 85258.
Support Line – offers emotional support, advice, and information for people in the UK who are socially isolated, vulnerable, at-risk, or experiencing any form of abuse.
Tel: 01708 765200
Switchboard – if you identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, please call us if you are in need of support.
Tel: 0800 0119 100
Talk to Frank - offers honest information about drugs for anyone worried.
Tel: 0300 123 6600
Text: 82111
Email using their contact form
The Mix - If you're under 25, you can call The Mix on 0808 808 4994 (3pm–midnight every day), request support by email using this form on The Mix website or use their crisis text messenger service.
The Silver Line - open 24/7 for over 55s looking for support.
Tel: 0800 470 8090.
The Survivors Trust - aims to support and empower survivors of rape, sexual violence and/or childhood sexual abuse.
Tel: 0808 801 0818
Email: helpline@thesurvivorstrust.org
We Are With You - a drug and alcohol charity working with adults and young people, in community settings, in prisons, in residential rehab and through outreach.
Young Minds - offers a text support service for young people, 24/7.
Text: 'YM' to 85258
Young Minds Parent’s Helpline - if you’re a parent worried about a young person, Parents Helpline offers confidential online and telephone support including information and advice to people in the UK who are worried about the emotional problems, behaviour or mental health of a child or young person.
Tel: 0808 802 5544
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