DEZAIR is not a crisis service, a treatment provider, or a substitute for a licensed professional. If you are in immediate physical danger, contact your local emergency services first (911 in the United States).

If you’re thinking about suicide, or you’re in emotional distress you don’t know how to handle — Call or text 988 (the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), or chat online at 988lifeline.org. Free, confidential, available 24/7 across the United States. This includes distress that has nothing to do with a specific plan — you don’t need to be in crisis by anyone else’s definition to call.

If you’ve experienced sexual assault, or something happened and you’re not sure what to do next — Call RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800.656.HOPE (4673), chat online at online.rainn.org, or text “HOPE” to 64673. Free, confidential, 24/7. You don’t need to have decided whether to report anything to use this — it’s support first.

If you’re in a relationship that feels controlling, frightening, or unsafe — Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or visit thehotline.org to chat. They can help you think through safety planning, whether or not you’re ready to leave.

If eating, body image, or control around food has become something you can’t manage alone — Call the National Alliance for Eating Disorders helpline at 1-866-662-1235 (Monday–Friday, 9am–7pm ET), or visit allianceforeatingdisorders.com. Their helpline is staffed by licensed therapists who specialize in this specifically.

If you’re navigating grief — a pregnancy loss, the end of a relationship, the death of a partner — A general practitioner, an OB-GYN, or a licensed grief counselor can refer you to support suited to your specific situation. If you’re not sure where to start, Psychology Today’s therapist directory (psychologytoday.com/us/therapists) lets you filter specifically for grief counseling in your area.

If a relationship needs more than either of you can give it alone — A licensed couples therapist, or a certified sex therapist through AASECT’s directory (aasect.org), can help in a way no article — including anything in this library — is built to.

If you’re outside the United States — findahelpline.com maintains a directory of crisis lines by country and topic, and is a good starting point regardless of where you’re located.

None of this replaces what a real, trained person can offer you in a moment that actually needs one. If anything in this library brought up something heavier than it meant to, that’s not a failure on your part — it’s exactly what this page is here for.