Help Information

IF YOU ARE IN AN EMERGENCY CRISIS SITUATION WHERE YOUR LIFE OR ANOTHER’S LIFE IS THREATENED:

• You feel suicidal or in danger of harming yourself in any other way.
• You are worried that you may harm someone else
• You are worried that you are in immediate physical danger from someone else
Then there is help out there. Please see below:

Emergency Services

When you feel unable to keep yourself (or others) safe and immediate help, CALL 999 or take yourself to your nearest hospital Accident and Emergency Department.
Don’t know what to do? Call 111. This is the NHS non-emergency service who can advise you.

IN BOTH THE ABOVE CASES PLEASE REQUEST AN URGENT MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT

If you do not think you are going to act on your feelings and thoughts immediately, or in the next 24 hours, or you have a crisis situation that does not fit the above examples, then:

• You can contact your GP surgery and make an urgent appointment
• You can also ring The Samaritans and talk with someone 24 hours a day on 116 123 free from a mobile
• SANEline offers emotional support and information for anyone affected by mental illness. Call on 0300 304 7000
• The Oxleas Mental Health Urgent advice line: Offering urgent mental health advice to our patients in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. Call free on 0800 330 8590
• Papyrus: For under 35’s, or if you are concerned about a person under 35 . HOPELINE UK: 0800 068 4141 SMS: 07786 209697 Email: pat@papyrus-uk.org
• The Silver Line: For older people. 0800 47080900
• National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK 0800 689 5652

Bexley Crisis Café

The Bexley Crisis Café is a safe and friendly place that you can come to if you are experiencing severe emotional or psychological distress. It is a place to meet others with similar problems and to access mental health support and advice from mental health and wellbeing professionals. We are open outside of usual mental health service hours.

Where can you find us?

We are open from 6 pm to 10 pm from Monday to Sunday and Bank Holidays.

Mind in Bexley, 2a Devonshire Road, Bexleyheath DA6 8DS

SUPPORTED SELF-HELP

Free mental health support. Understand your emotions with Mind’s supported self-help.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Call the police on 999 if you think you are a risk to yourselves or others.

For further advice and support:
24-hour National Domestic Violence Freephone Helpline: 0808 2000 247

Solace in Bexley – Solace provides free and confidential support for women and children in Bexley affected by abuse
Call: 020 3198 4659
Email: bexley.community@solacewomensaid.org

Respect – Men’s Advice Line – Help for male victims of domestic violence and abuse.
Website: mensadviceline.org.uk

For women and children in domestic violence situations, you can contact Bexley Women’s Aid
Call: 020 8301 1536
Email: info@bexleywomensaid.org.uk
Website: www.bexleywomensaid.org.uk

For Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, experiencing domestic violence:
Broken Rainbow UK Help line – 0300 999 5428 (Monday and Thursday 2pm – 8pm and Tuesday and Wednesday 10am – 5pm).
Email: help@brokenrainbow.org.uk

RESPECT PHONE LINE- HELPLINE FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PERPETRATORS
Confidential information and advice to help perpetrators stop their violence and change their abusive behaviours; information for domestic violence perpetrator programmes.
Open: Monday – Friday 9am-5pm
Call 0808 802 4040 (free from landlines and most mobiles)
Email info@respectphoneline.org.uk
Website: www.respectphoneline.org.uk
Text Relay – textphone users dial 18001 0808 802 4040
Telephone interpreting service available – If English is not your first language, call us and ask for an interpreter

IN A FINANCIAL CRISIS:

Citizen’s Advice Bureau