Immediate help

If you're in crisis

Best Path is a career coaching product. It is not a crisis service, it has no clinicians, and it is not equipped to help you with this. The services below are, they are free, and they are open now.

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

Call 988, or text 988. You can also chat at 988lifeline.org.

Free and confidential, 24 hours a day, every day, anywhere in the United States. You do not have to be suicidal to call — it is also for anyone in emotional distress.

If you have served in the military, call 988 and press 1 to reach the Veterans Crisis Line, or text 838255.

Crisis Text Line

Text HOME to 741741 to reach a trained crisis counselor.

Free, 24 hours a day, if writing is easier than talking.

If someone is in immediate danger

Call 911.

For a life-threatening emergency, including a suicide attempt in progress.

Your campus counseling center

If you are enrolled at a school, its counseling center is usually free for students and can keep seeing you.

You will find it on your school's website, or through your student health service.