“When
the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
Malala
Yousafzai
For our first World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD), Shake My Hand have put a lot of work into this post – which we’ve branded a ‘guide’ – to an absolute TON of links that we think will be helpful for survivors of rape and abuse; particularly where they’re feeling suicidal or beginning to contemplate making a suicide attempt. We recognise that different coping skills or methods of seeking help can work for different people, so we’ve tried to create an enormous variety of links, and we hope that at least one of these is useful for someone…
In an emergency always call 999
For some localities: you can contact
your local Crisis Team by calling 111 and pressing option 2 – in all other localities;
this number and option will still also provide urgent mental health telephone
support.
Mind also provides a number of Services
(some will be linked below) but it also has a section on its website of general
information about seeking help and why you might be struggling to do so:
How
to seek help for a mental health problem - Mind
There’s also information on how
to help and support someone else with suicidal thoughts:
Suicide
prevention | Mental Health Foundation
Websites Providing A Help Directory:
Help Directory
| Shake My Hand (shakemyhanduk.blogspot.com)
Useful
contacts - suicidal feelings - Mind
Find a Helpline (helplines.org)
http://www.nhs.uk/service-search/mental-health/find-an-urgent-mental-health-helpline
Online Support:
Mind’s
Online Support Service: Side By Side
Side
by Side: our online community - Mind
Switchboard:
Helping and supporting people who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender:
CALM
Webchat Service:
I'm struggling | Campaign
Against Living Miserably (CALM) (thecalmzone.net)
Samaritans:
Help
for young people experiencing suicidal thoughts and feelings:
Suicidal
Feelings | Help And Advice For Young People | YoungMinds
Phone & Text Support:
Nightline
Listening Support for Students:
Find Yours: Listening
Services Run by Students, for Students (nightline.ac.uk)
Papyrus
Hopeline for people under 35 (24/7):
Papyrus UK Suicide Prevention | Prevention
of Young Suicide (papyrus-uk.org)
SHOUT
Text Service (24/7):
National
Suicide Prevention Helpline (6pm – midnight):
National
Suicide Prevention Helpline Uk » Home (spuk.org.uk)
SANEline
(4:30pm – 10pm):
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This link
on Mind provides practical tools that you can use yourself if you feel you’re
in a crisis; it features ideas for methods
of distraction, as well as relaxing
and calming exercises, and ways to create a safe plan for the next few
hours. Creating
a safe plan promotes the idea of listing ways to get through the next five
minutes, and then it moves onto ten minutes and so on. You can keep your Plan
by typing in your email address or just leave it as a one-off: Need urgent help - Mind
Wellness
Action Plans: https://mentalhealth-uk.org/blog/wellbeing-workplan
Positivity
Exercises: https://positivepsychology.com/positive-psychology-interventions
Breathing
Exercises: http://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/guides-tools-and-activities/breathing-exercises-for-stress
Mindfulness:
http://www.mindful.org/meditation/mindfulness-getting-started
A list
of coping strategies from Papyrus: http://www.papyrus-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Coping-Strategies.pdf
Hopelink
from Papyrus helps you to create suicide safety plans: HOPELINK | Papyrus (papyrus-uk.org)
with more guidance here: http://www.stayingsafe.net/home
Download
the Stay Alive app which is a UK suicide prevention resource including
information and helpful tools: https://prevent-suicide.org.uk/find-help-now/stay-alive-app
Use
Headspace which features a free basic package of help to manage your mental
health as well as subscriptions to access other services: http://www.headspace.com/
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A list
of Distraction Activities from Papyrus: http://www.papyrus-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Distraction-Techniques.pdf
Health
& Fitness Activities: https://www.rethink.org/advice-and-information/living-with-mental-illness/information-on-wellbeing-physical-health-bame-lgbtplus-and-studying-and-mental-health/physical-activity-and-mental-health/
A free
Meditation App: http://www.smilingmind.com.au/smiling-mind-app
Creative Writing Prompts -
Writer's Digest (writersdigest.com)
Help to
create a Crisis Box: http://www.papyrus-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HOPEBOX-resource.pdf
Help to
create a Hope Book which can be a scrapbook or journal including things you
like and things you enjoy doing etc.: http://www.papyrus-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/HOPEBOOK.pdf