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Crisis Contingency Plan
If you are experiencing a crisis and need to speak to someone immediately call the Sussex Mental Health Helpline. Telephone: 111 option 2. Available 24 hours a day.
If you feel the crisis is an emergency where you are worried for yours or someone else's immediatesafety, call the Emergency Services on 999, or go to your local A&E Department
Contact details that may help
Support for you
- Young Minds: Crisis messenger 24 hours, 7 days a week support text YM to 85258
- Samaritans: Telephone: 116 123 (free)
- Sussex Mental Healthline: 111 option 2 24 hours
- Childline: Telephone: 0800 1111 (free) 24 hour online chat with counsellor
- Sussex CAMHS website
- YMCA E-Wellbeing website
- The Mix Helpline (for under 25's): Telephone: 0808 808 4994 (free 11am to 11pm)
- Bullying UK helpline: Telephone: 0808 800 2222 (9a to 9pm Monday to Friday, 10am to 3pm Saturday to Sunday)
Support for parents
- Young Minds Parent Helpline Telephone: 0808 802 5544
- Family Line: Telephone: 0808 800 5678 (free). Non-mental health specific support for parents
- Sussex Mental Health Helpline: 111 option 2. Available 24 hours
Some apps that you may find helpful
- Calm Harm - provides tasks that can help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm.
- MindShift - aims to help you learn how to relax and develop new ways of thinking to help your anxiety.
- SAM - an app to support young people to understand and cope with anxiety.
- Virtual Hope Box - to support people experiencing a wide range of emotional wellbeing/mental health difficulties, people who are stressed or having negative thoughts.
- #StayAlive - a suicide prevention resource which offers help and support to people with thoughts of suicide, as well as for people who are concerned about someone else. Information about local services is aimed at adults, but there are still some useful features for young people.
- Breathe with me - A useful app if you are feeling anxious. It guides you through some calm breathing. Available via the Breathe With Me website
Follow us on social media!
- Twitter: @our_mh_space
- Instagram: our_mh_space
- YouTube: Our Mental Health Space
If you would like to talk to someone about the care/treatment you have received from our service you can contact: PALS (Patient Advice and Liaison Service). Telephone: 0300 304 2198 or email PALS@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk.