Get advice 24/7 by calling 111 and selecting the mental health option (option 2). for your own or someone else’s mental health. This can be used when it’s not an emergency or you’re just not sure what to do. Use the NHS 111 online service, or call 111 and select option 2.
A GP can advise you about helpful treatments and help you access mental health services. You may be able to refer yourself to some services. Ask for an urgent GP appointment if you need help urgently.
For more information follow the link Feeling suicidal? – Cornwall Council
In Cornwall, the rates of suicide are higher than the England average. There is no one simple answer to why this might be the case, as some risk factors for suicide are linked with socio economic factors, mental or physical illness, abuse, relationship breakdown and bereavement. Not everyone who needs support for their suicidal thoughts seeks help from mental health services, encouraging as many people in our communities as possible to undertake mental health/suicide prevention training is a way of increasing the likelihood that supportive listening and signposting is available wherever you are in Cornwall.
Creating a mental health safety plan can help you identify both the things that keep you well and the places and people who can support when things don’t go to plan. Here is a link to information about mental health safety plans as well as some mental health safety plan templates that may be useful.
Suicide first aid training can help people to understand how to have supportive conversations, raise awareness and understand appropriate signposting routes.
There is also support for parents/carers on the NHS website and resources for dealing with young people, taking account of the whole family perspective.
Orange Button Community Scheme identifies people who have taken mental health/suicide prevention training and can listen and signpost to further support. You can find out more about it here.
Postvention support for those bereaved by suicide is provided by Outlook South West. You can contact them here.
Communities can be supported to become Suicide Safer Communities using a framework to map work in this area. You can find out more through the Every Life Matters website here.
Some useful links for further information are available below:
