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Free, confidential support 24/7 for suicidal thoughts, emotional distress, or substance use crisis. You can also call about someone you are worried about.
24/7 · English & Spanish · interpretation in 240+ languages
Text-based support with a trained crisis counselor. Useful if talking out loud is not an option, or if a phone call feels like too much right now.
24/7 · text-based
Confidential crisis support for veterans, service members, and their families, answered by responders trained specifically in military experience. You do not need to be enrolled in VA benefits or health care to use it.
24/7 · dial 988 then press 1
Crisis intervention and suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ young people. Trained counselors, confidential, built for a population that faces meaningfully higher risk.
24/7 · call, text, or chat
Not everything is a crisis. Most of it is the long middle, where you are functioning but struggling. These are for that.
The best general starting point for navigating mental health. Trained staff and volunteers help you understand options, find local services, and figure out next steps for depression, anxiety, PTSD, or a diagnosis you are trying to make sense of. They do not provide counseling, they help you find it.
Mon–Fri, 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM ET · closed federal holidays
The resource almost nobody knows exists. Warmlines are for when you are not in crisis but you need to talk to a person, staffed by peers who have been through it themselves. No emergency services, no hospitalization, just someone who gets it. Directory lists lines by state, with some open nationwide.
Hours vary by line · free · peer-staffed · non-crisis
Peer support groups for depression and bipolar disorder, free, in person and online, with some national online groups open to anyone anywhere. Similar model to a recovery meeting, aimed at mood rather than substances.
450+ groups · online groups run daily · free
Nonprofit network of licensed therapists offering sessions at a reduced flat rate for people without insurance or with high deductibles. There is a one-time membership fee, then sessions run well below market rate. Cost is one of the most common reasons people never start therapy, and this removes a good chunk of it.
One-time membership fee, then reduced per-session rate · licensed clinicians
Free, confidential treatment referral and information service for individuals and families facing substance use or mental health disorders. Connects you to local treatment, support groups, and community organizations.
24/7, 365 days · English & Spanish · TTY 1-800-487-4889
Fellowship of people recovering from alcoholism. Meetings are free, worldwide, and available in person and online. Use the directory to find a local group or a meeting happening right now.
Local hotlines vary by area · online meetings 24/7
Support for families and friends of people with a drinking problem. If someone else's drinking is affecting your life, this is built for you, not for them.
Meeting info line Mon–Fri, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM ET · electronic meetings available
Support for families and friends of someone using drugs, the same idea as Al-Anon but built specifically around drug addiction rather than alcohol. Meetings are free, in person and online.
Helpline Mon–Fri, 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM PT · online meetings available
Secular, science-based alternative to 12-step programs, built on self-management and cognitive behavioral tools. In-person and online meetings, plus a 24/7 message board.
Meetings daily · online community 24/7
Losing someone to addiction carries a particular weight, and general grief support does not always know what to do with it. These groups do.
Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing. An online community and local meeting network specifically for people grieving someone lost to addiction or overdose. Not general grief support, built for this exact kind of loss.
Online community · local chapters in many areas · free
For people who lost someone to suicide. A 24/7 online forum moderated by a mental health counselor and trained moderators, plus support groups. Suicide loss carries its own kind of confusion and guilt, and this space is built around that.
Online forum 24/7 · moderated · support groups available
Support for families after the death of a child, at any age and from any cause. Staffed by volunteers who have been through the same loss, with local chapters and online groups nationwide.
Phone support · local chapters · online groups
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's directory of loss-survivor support groups, healing guides, and local chapter programs, including their Healing Conversations peer program.
Directory · local chapters · free guides
Confidential help for gambling problems, for the person gambling or for anyone affected by it. Trained specialists connect you to local resources and treatment.
24/7 · call, text, or chat
Twelve-step fellowship for compulsive sexual behavior, including compulsive pornography use. Meetings are free and confidential, in person, by phone, and online.
Phone line Mon–Fri, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM CT · telemeetings available
Twelve-step fellowship for those seeking recovery from lust, pornography, and compulsive sexual behavior. Meeting locator covers in-person, phone, and online groups.
Meetings daily · phone and online groups
Free peer support from the oldest eating disorder nonprofit in the United States. Volunteers connect callers to treatment resources and ongoing support groups.
Mon–Fri, 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM CT · leave a message outside hours
Staffed helpline answered by licensed therapists, offering referrals to treatment at every level of care. This is the staffed phone line for eating disorder support.
Mon–Fri, 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM ET
NEDA no longer operates a phone helpline, but its screening tool and treatment directory are still useful starting points. For a live person, use ANAD or the National Alliance above.
Online resources only · no phone helpline
Confidential 24/7 support for anyone experiencing abuse, worried about someone else, or trying to understand what is happening in their relationship. Advocates help with safety planning and local referrals.
24/7, 365 days · call, text, or chat · TTY 1-800-787-3224
Run by the TN Coalition to End Domestic & Sexual Violence. Connects you to shelters, advocates, and services in your own county, which a national line cannot always do as precisely.
24/7 statewide · office line 615-386-9406, Mon–Thu 8–5
Support for survivors of sexual assault or abuse, recent or many years ago, and for people who care about them. Calls route to a trained advocate at a local provider near you.
24/7, 365 days · call, text, or chat
Built specifically for men healing from sexual abuse or assault, including trans and non-binary survivors. Anonymous one-on-one chat with a trained advocate, plus weekly online support groups. Male survivors are badly underserved, and this fills that gap.
24/7 chat · anonymous · weekday support groups
Domestic and sexual violence support built by and for Native Americans and Alaska Natives, with referrals to Native-centered services. Anonymous and confidential.
24/7 · call, text, or chat
Dating abuse support geared toward teens and young adults, covering unhealthy relationships, controlling partners, and digital abuse. Useful if you are worried about your own relationship or your kid's.
24/7 · call, text, or chat
Confidential, multilingual support for victims, survivors, and witnesses of human trafficking, including labor trafficking. Connects to local services and law enforcement only if you want that.
24/7 · 200+ languages
Crisis counseling and referrals for child abuse and neglect, for kids, parents worried about their own behavior, and adults concerned about a child. Note this is a support line, not a reporting line, and not a substitute for 911.
24/7 · 170+ languages · call, text, or chat
SAMHSA crisis counseling for emotional distress after natural or human-caused disasters, including tornadoes and floods. Relevant here more often than anyone would like.
24/7, 365 days · call or text
Run by the VA but the education and self-help material is free and open to everyone, veteran or not. Includes a plain-English guide to which PTSD treatments actually work, a treatment decision aid, and the free PTSD Coach app for symptoms between appointments.
Online resources · free · open to non-veterans
Free referral line for practical help, housing, food assistance, utility bills, and other basic needs. Not addiction-specific, but often exactly what's needed first.
Just dial 211 · availability varies by area, Tennessee is covered · 180+ languages
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