Websites
- Preventing Suicide in Sussex – practical and bullet point advice for those experiencing or supporting those with suicidal thoughts.
- Staying safe from suicidal thoughts – resources to help you create a safety plan to keep yourself safe in a crisis.
- Confidential emotional support line – immediate support for those currently experiencing suicidal thoughts.
- Samaritans – immediate support for those who are suicidal and advice on how to reach out and support someone with suicidal thoughts and self-harm.
- Mind – general information about suicide and how to get support.
Factsheets
- Suicidal thoughts: how to cope (Rethink Mental Illness) - a factsheet with practical advice for those experiencing suicidal thoughts, with information on how to stay safe and access support.
- Suicidal thoughts: how to support someone (Rethink Mental Illness) – a factsheet explaining why someone might experience suicidal thoughts and how you can support them and yourself.
Printable Workbooks and Guides
Free Online Courses
- Gateway Training – a 5-to-10-minute introduction to suicide awareness you will learn how to approach and advise someone who may be considering taking their own life.
- In-depth suicide awareness training – gain the skills and confidence to help someone who may be considering suicide and gain an understanding of the importance of breaking the stigma around suicide by encouraging open conversations about it.
- Understanding suicide and suicide prevention strategies in a global context – for anyone who would like to learn more about the risk factors, stigma, and impact of suicide on a societal level, as well as ways to help prevent it.
Books available from the LRC
- Suicide Prevention
By Healey, Justin
eBook. English. Published Thirroul: The Spinney Press, 2014
Electronic version available in library
- How to help the suicidal person choose life
By Stephany, Kathleen
eBook. English. Published Sharjah: Bentham Science Publishers, 2017 1st ed
Electronic version available in library
Free Apps
- Samaritans Self-help – allows the user to track their mood and create safety plans, as well as providing techniques to help cope with difficult feelings.
- StayAlive – a pocket suicide prevention resource which includes a safety plan with customisable reasons to live and information for those experiencing or supporting someone with suicidal thoughts.
- distrACT – easy, quick, and discreet access to information and advice about suicide and self-harm.
- Combined Minds – support and practical advice for those experiencing or supporting someone through a mental health condition.
Helplines
Text Support
Email Support
Audios
Student Support & Wellbeing
- Wellbeing Drop-In – drop-in to speak to a wellbeing advisor for general wellbeing advice and signposting to services that can support you.
- Coping and living mindfully (CALM) – an introduction to DBT skills to lean how to regulate emotions and cope with distressing feelings.
Local Services
- Contact your local GP/Doctor (it is possible to book a GP appointment on behalf of someone else, so long as they are registered with that GP and are willing to attend the appointment)
Find a local GP here https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-GP
- West Sussex NHS Talking Therapies (formerly Time to Talk). Refer online at www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk or call 01273 265967.