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If you need someone to talk to, you are not alone. Here are a few places to start:

• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988, or visit 988lifeline.org
  • If you or someone you know is experiencing a suicide, substance use or mental health crisis, contact this lifeline, available 24/7

   

• NAMI HelpLine: Call 800-950-6264 or text 62640. Visit nami.org/help or email [email protected]
  • If you need help locating resources in your area, NAMI’s HelpLine is available from 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. ET Monday-Friday

   

• NAMI Support Groups: Visit nami.org/SupportGroups
  • Connect with peers and families who have been through similar experiences

   

• NAMI Web Guides
  • Navigating a Mental Health Crisis
  • Kids, Teens and Young Adults
  • Risk of Suicide

   

• What You Need to Know About Youth Suicide:
  • Learn about high-risk groups, common risk factors and how to protect yourself or someone you’re worried about

   

• NAMI’s best-selling book “You Are Not Alone — The NAMI Guide to Navigating Mental Illness"
  Visit nami.org/NotAloneBook
  • Read insights from experts and peers with lived experience

   

• Blogs from NAMI’s CEO, Daniel H. Gillison Jr.
  • The Crisis of Youth Mental Health
  • Early Intervention Can Save Lives

NOTE: If you are concerned someone in your life is at risk for suicide, ask directly:

“Are you thinking about ending your life?”

“Have you thought about how you would do it or when? Do you have a plan?”

Research shows that asking someone about suicide does not make them more likely to have thoughts of suicide or act on those thoughts. In fact, the opposite is true: Asking someone could save their life.

We hope that this movie will encourage you to start conversations about mental health. Here are a few ways you can get involved:

1. Spread awareness on social media with shareable graphics
    
   

   

   

   

    

2. Share the stats
   • 50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by age 14, and 75% begin by age 24
   • The average delay between symptom onset of a mental health condition and treatment is 11 years
   • Every 11 minutes, someone in the U.S. dies by suicide
   • In 2019, suicide was the second-leading cause of death among people aged 10-24
   • According to the CDC, more than 1 in 3 high school students experienced poor mental health during the pandemic, and nearly half of students felt persistently sad or hopeless
   • Research shows that asking someone directly whether they are thinking about ending their life could be life-saving

    

3. Start a conversation in your community
   • Help break the stigma by openly talking about mental health in your own circles
   • Become a NAMI In Our Own Voice presenter
   • Bring NAMI’s Ending the Silence program to your middle school or high school
   • Learn how to talk about mental health in faith communities
   • Start a NAMI on Campus college club
   • Participate in NAMIWalks near you

    

4. Keep learning
   • Sign up for NAMI’s newsletter and follow NAMI on social media (Facebook.com/NAMI and @NAMIcommunicate on Twitter and Instagram).
   • Check out free educational resources on NAMI’s website, listen to NAMI’s new podcast or read NAMI’s new book.
   • Don’t assume you know how the people around you are doing. Get past the surface level by asking how they are really doing.
5. Check out the discussion guide.