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If You Need Help Now

If you feel that you want to, or have to, kill yourself:

contact your psychiatrist or psychologist, if you have one, and/or
call 911, or call your local police or ambulance service directly, or
go to a hospital emergency room
Look in your local telephone book under "suicide prevention," or call information, to get the number of a place you can call for help
You can call the SA/VE National Hotline at 1-800 SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433)
You can call or e-mail The Samaritans: check you local telephone book for the number, or send e-mail to the Samaritans at:

Note that the Samaritans usually answer e-mail once per day, so it may take some time for you to get an answer

URGENT: IF YOU ARE THINKING OF SUICIDE, CLICK HERE

IF YOU NEED HELP FOR SOMEONE ELSE WHO MAY BE SUICIDAL, CLICK HERE

Depression, a leading cause of suicide	Warning signs of suicide	Training materials on police suicide
Setting up a suicide prevention program for your department	Links to other sites with information on suicide/stress/mental health	If someone you know has committed suicide
Myths about suicide	Who We Are	Contact Us

IMPORTANT NOTE: nothing on this web page or any other web page by the Police Suicide Prevention Association, or in any link or other web page linked to a Police Suicide prevention Association Web Page, constitutes medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice or treatment, or legal advice. Nothing in such web pages or links is intended to replace such advice or treatment. Links to, or references to, other organizations do not necessarily imply that the Police Suicide Prevention Center endorses those organizations, or that those organizations endorse the Police Suicide Prevention Center.

NIE 04/01/2001