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What's it like right now?
Pick whatever is closest. You don't have to explain anything, and there's no wrong answer.
Not sure which one it is? .
Not sure what you need?
A short check-in. Some questions come from the same brief questionnaires doctors use, a few are ours, and at the end you get what's most likely to help you specifically. It's a screening, not a diagnosis. Nothing leaves your device.
PHQ-9 and GAD-7 were developed by Drs. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc. No permission is required to reproduce them.
Small things
For when you can't do anything big. No goal, no score. Just touch it and see what happens.
Things you can do here
No account, no trial, nothing locked. Nothing you type here is sent anywhere. It stays on your device.
Follow the light. In while it grows, out while it shrinks. The breath out is longer on purpose. It tells your body it's allowed to slow down.
Whenever you're ready.
When your mind is spinning, this brings you back into the room, one sense at a time. Say each thing out loud or in your head. Take your time.
Say the thing you can't say to anyone. Be as messy as you need. When you're done, you can let it go, and it's gone for good.
A short plan for the next time things get dark, based on the Stanley-Brown Safety Plan that counselors use. Fill in what you can. Even one line helps. It saves as you type, only on this device.
For when an urge hits: to hurt yourself, to drink or use, to send the message, to do something you can't take back. Urges rise, peak, and fall, usually within 10 to 20 minutes. You don't have to beat this one. You only have to outlast it.
You stayed with it the whole way.
The hardest part of reaching out is usually the first sentence. Borrow one of these. Copy it, or tap Text it to open your messages with it already written, and change anything you want.
If nobody answers right away, it doesn't mean nobody cares. People sleep, work, and miss their phones. Try one more person, or one of the .
For when sleep won't come. A slow walk through your body, one line at a time. You don't have to fall asleep. Resting with your eyes closed still helps.
When you want a person
Not because you're too much. Because nobody should have to carry this alone. You can start with a text if talking feels like too much.
And if you've reached out before and it didn't help, or made things worse, that's real. There's more on that below, including ways to ask for what you actually need.
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A warmlineFor when it isn't an emergency and you just need someone to talk to. Free, and usually answered by people who've been through hard things themselves.
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988 Suicide & Crisis LifelineCall or text 988, any hour. It's for any kind of emotional distress, not only thoughts of suicide.
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Crisis Text LineText HOME to 741741 to reach a trained volunteer by text.
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Trans LifelinePeer support run by and for trans people.
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Veterans Crisis LineDial 988 and press 1, or text 838255.
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211When the crisis is housing, food, bills, or getting somewhere safe. Connects you with local help.
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Outside the United StatesFree helplines in most countries, searchable by what you need.
If you've already hurt yourself, or you're not safe right now, please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
If calling has gone badly before
Maybe you were put on hold. Maybe someone read you a script, asked the same safety questions three times, or made you feel like a case number. Maybe it made the night worse. That happened, and you're not wrong to walk in wary.
It still isn't proof about the next time. The people on these lines vary as much as people anywhere. If one isn't helping, you're allowed to hang up and try again, try a different line, or switch to text.
What usually happens when you reach 988
A short recorded greeting, then a counselor at a crisis center. They'll probably ask whether you're thinking about suicide. They ask everyone; it's how they know where to start. Most contacts stay a conversation from beginning to end. If a counselor believes someone's life is in immediate danger and they can't make a plan together, they may involve emergency services. If that worries you, you can ask how they handle it before you say more.
You're allowed to tell them what you need
Other doors
Warmlines are peer-run and not for emergencies, so there's usually less of a script. Trans Lifeline is peer support too, and says it won't contact emergency services without the caller's consent. And the companion on this page runs on this site's own server. It isn't a person or a crisis line, but it won't put you on hold, won't read you a script, and can't call anyone. .
If you're worried about someone
You don't need training to help. Mostly it takes being direct, listening longer than feels natural, and not letting them carry it alone.
- Ask directly. "Are you thinking about suicide?" Asking plainly doesn't put the idea in anyone's head. It tells them it's safe to be honest with you.
- Listen more than you fix. Don't argue with how they feel or rush to the bright side. "That sounds unbearable, and I'm here" does more than advice.
- If they're in danger now, stay. In person if you can, on the phone if you can't. Don't leave them alone with it tonight.
- Put distance between them and the means. Offer to hold onto medications, weapons, or anything else they might use, just for now. Distance buys time, and time matters.
- Help them connect. Offer to sit with them while they call or text a line, or while you fill out a together.
- Check in tomorrow. And the day after. A short "thinking of you" matters more than it seems.
You can call or text 988 yourself to talk through how to help someone. If they've already hurt themselves or you think they're about to, call 911.
Rest and sleep
Sounds to sit with or fall asleep to. They're made right here in your browser, so there's nothing to download and they never run out. Mix as many as you like.
On iPhone, switch off silent mode to hear these.
Music
If you can't sleep, try the .
When you're ready to go deeper
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About
Context, intentions, and an invitation to explore.
The questions that come up at 3 a.m.
Short, real answers, and every one ends with something you can do right now. No "Learn more." No blog to scroll through.
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What you didn't have to do
Most of the big wellness apps make you get through a few doors before they'll help you. Here's what they usually ask for, next to what this place asks for.
The usual way in
- Accept the cookie banner before you can read anything
- Scroll past a mountain lake to find the price
- Pick a plan, monthly or yearly
- Enter a card for a "free" trial that renews itself
- Make an account to use the one free thing
- Or ask your employer to buy it for you
The way in here
You opened the page.
That was the whole price. No trial, no tiers, no account, nothing to cancel later. The big ones run $70 to $200 a year. This runs on donations, and whatever you can or can't give, it's yours either way.
A note on this space
This isn't a corporate wellness site, and it isn't therapy. I'm not a licensed professional. I'm someone who's been in the dark places and found some lights along the way. Everything here is shared in that spirit, one human to another.
Everything here is free, tonight and next month. No paywalls on healing, and no trial that quietly turns into a bill. If you just needed to know someone understands: you're not alone. Keep going.
A note on transparency
I'm not trying to lead with this, and I'm definitely not seeking pity. But closed mouths don't get fed, and the truth deserves to be told.
The reality is: I've been illegally evicted and forced into homelessness on the other side of fraud, complicity, and corruption. This website and these resources were built while I was navigating the depths of my own darkest days, and I'm still praying that light will come from somewhere.
Maybe that's you. Maybe it's someone you choose to share this page with. I don't know. But I'm trying my best, not only for myself, but so I can continue making even better resources for others.
In my experience, it's exactly the refusal to be open about the truth that causes and perpetuates so much of the ongoing harm we see around us. So I'm being transparent about where I am, and what it takes to keep building.
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