If you need non-urgent help with your mental health and wellbeing
- Contact your GP
- Call NHS 111 and select the mental health option, open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Call your local NHS Psychological Wellbeing Service
- Cumbria: 0300 123 9122
- Gateshead: 0191 283 2541
- Newcastle: 0330 0534 230
- Northumberland: 0300 3030 700
- North Tyneside: 0191 295 2775
- South Tyneside: 0191 283 2937
- Sunderland: 0191 566 5454
- Call a helpline:
- MIND – the Mental Health Charity – information and support, legal rights, guides to support services, helplines. They run a trans specific helpline – Trans+ Mindline: 0300 330 5468, open Monday and Friday from 8am to midnight or visit the Midline Trans+ webpage.
- LGBT Switchboard – provides a one-stop listening service for LGBT+ people on the phone, by email and through instant messaging.
Telephone: 0300 330 0630, open 10am to 10pm every day.
Email: chris@switchboard.lgbt
If you need emergency help with your mental health and wellbeing
- Contact your GP/out-of-hours GP number
- Attend your local Accident and Emergency Department
- Ring 999 for support
- Find more details about crisis services near to you on the NHS website’s Get urgent help for mental health page.
- Call a helpline:
- The Samaritans
Telephone: 116 123 or visit the Samaritans website - TRANS+ MINDLINE
Telephone: 0300 330 5468 (open Monday and Friday from 8am to midnight) or visit the Trans+ Mindline website - MIND infoline
Telephone: 0300 123 3393 or visit the MIND website - LGBTQIA+ Switchboard
Telephone: 0300 330 0630 (open 10am-10pm every day)
Email: chris@switchboard.lgbt
or visit the Switchboard website - Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 741741 - Give us a shout
Text SHOUT to 85258 for help 24/7 or visit the Give Us a Shout website.
- The Samaritans