If you are in crisis or supporting someone in crisis, please look through this page to find further resources for your situation. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, please contact me at sarah@di.org.au but please be aware I may take a week or more to respond! More immediate help can be found through the following services:
In Australia try
- Lifeline 13 11 14 (free from landlines and mobiles)
- ACIS 13 14 65 for mental health emergencies
- Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800 (for young people aged 5 to 25)
- Or 000 for an ambulance if you know the person is in life threatening danger and where they are
In America they have the suicide prevention lifeline on 1800 273 8255.
If you’re affected by suicide – either yourself or by someone else and need to talk, the suicide call-back service can be helpful – obviously these ones aren’t for immediate crisis. http://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au
Sarah’s personal approach to crisis can be found at staying safe in a crisis, using black humour to stop crises building momentum, survival lessons about managing crisis from people who survive extreme environments, and not getting gung-ho about treatment. For those of us who are supporting other people the following links may be helpful:
- Trauma informed care
- Your problems are your fault
- Caring for someone who’s suicidal
- Reporting a suicide threat on facebook
- Supporting someone after trauma
- 5 Hours after an Assault
- How to call ACIS (and other mental health crisis helplines)
- Living with Rage
It can be helpful to remember that crisis is not always a bad thing. One definition is that it is merely the interruption of a pattern. Sometimes patterns have been destructive or limiting, and through crisis we find more freedom and hope. Even in instances where crisis was terrible, there can be silver linings – I have reflected that in my own history, crisis has at times been the best thing that could have happened. It can also help to remember to remember that dissociation is not always pathological or the cause of the crisis but is sometimes a very helpful, even life saving, response to a crisis.
- Rufus May – In a Crisis: Finding Ways to live with Voices of Panic, Blame, and Punishment
- Sarah – Self Care and a Myth of Crisis Mode
- Sarah – Psychosis
- Sarah – Prodromal
- Sarah – My Approach to First Episode Psychosis
- Sarah – Feeling Chronically Suicidal
- Sarah – Understanding Emotional Flooding
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