Louisa Rocque from the American Foundation for the Prevention of Suicide speaks to Elle about the work she does. She shares her advice about supporting someone to deal with suicidal ideation, either for themselves or for others. This is the website for the AFPS https://afsp.org/ If you're struggling with anything we mentioned in this episode and are in the UK, please reach out to any of these organisations that are best designed to help. In an emergency, call 999. National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK 0800 689 5652 https://www.spbristol.org/NSPHUKSamaritans Call 116 123 Email jo@samaritans.org https://www.samaritans.org/Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) Call 0800 58 58 58 – 5pm to midnight every day https://www.thecalmzone.net/Papyrus – for people under 35 Call 0800 068 41 41 – 9am to midnight every day Text 07860 039967 Email pat@papyrus-uk.org https://www.papyrus-uk.org/help-advice/about-hopelineukChildline – for children and young people under 19 - Call 0800 1111 – the number will not show up on your phone bill https://www.childline.org.uk/SOS Silence of Suicide – for everyone Call 0300 1020 505 – 4pm to midnight every day Email support@sossilenceofsuicide.org https://sossilenceofsuicide.org/what-where-why/
