Where you can find help
- The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can be reached by dialing 1-800-273-8255. It provides free and confidential support 24 hours a day, seven days a week for people in suicidal crisis or distress, or for those who are helping a person in crisis.
- TrevorLifeline, a suicide prevention counseling service for the LGBTQ community, can be reached at 1-866-488-7386.
- Text HOME to 741741 to have a confidential text conversation with a trained crisis counselor from Crisis Text Line. Counselors are available 24/7.
- For online chat, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides a confidential chat window with counselors available 24/7.
- The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide provide contact information for crisis centers around the world.
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Exploring America's suicide crisis
Following Bourdain's death, CNN's Anderson Cooper moderated a town hall on suicide, the often misunderstood and growing crisis that can reach across all socio-economic, race, gender, religious, political and age groups. Watch the full special on CNNgo now.
Facts on suicide & mental health
By the numbers
- A person takes his or her life worldwide every 40 seconds, according to the World Health Organization
- By 2020, the WHO predicts that rate will increase to one suicide every 20 seconds
- In the United States, suicide was the 10th leading cause of death in 2015, according to the CDC
