Immediate Support
Cultivating ClearPaths does not provide emergency or crisis-response services. Email, telephone, website forms, and portal messages are not continuously monitored.
Need support now?
If your situation requires immediate support and you need to talk now, or if someone you know is in immediate danger, please call 911 or a local hotline in your country.
The Bahamas
- Emergency — 919 or 911
- Crisis Centre — (242) 328-0922
- Psychological Services — (242) 812-0576 / (242) 816-3766 / (242) 816-3799 / (242) 815-5850
- National Hotline for 24-Hour Crisis Intervention (Dept. of Social Services) — (242) 322-2763 or (242) 422-2763; Freeport/Grand Bahama — (242) 351-7763
- Community Counselling and Assessment Centre (Sandilands) — (242) 323-3293 / (242) 364-9600 · office hours, for assessment and ongoing care rather than crisis
- Domestic Violence Hotline — (242) 376-3538
If you are in New Mexico
- Immediate danger — call 911 and tell the operator it is a mental health emergency
- New Mexico Crisis and Access Line, 24/7 — 1-855-662-7474 (1-855-NMCRISIS), nmcrisisline.com
- The United States lines below, including 988 and the Crisis Text Line, are also available anywhere in New Mexico
United States
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — call or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org
- Crisis Text Line — text HELLO to 741741
- National Domestic Violence Hotline — text START to 88788 or call 1-800-799-7233
If you are not in danger, but you want it to stop
Wanting the pain to end is not the same as wanting to die, and you do not have to be at the very edge to deserve help. Ione has written about that difference, and about her own hole, in her own words.
Read: I want the pain to stop →These numbers are reverified regularly, at least every six months.