Suicide prevention
What prevents suicide, what lies underneath suicidal pain, who carries the most risk, and how to make a plan that helps in the hardest hour. Written for people who are struggling, the people who love them, and the clinicians who care for them.
6 posts, 3 tools, 1 screener and 1 paper, last updated Sep 29, 2026. Short link: doctorreid.com/safety
If you or someone you love is struggling right now, call or text 988 (US, any hour), or text HOME to 741741. If someone is in danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. Outside the US, see findahelpline.com.
- Keeping people safeWhat prevents suicide and how to check in on someoneSep 21, 2026
- The warning in the boxWhy some psychiatric medicines carry a suicide warningSep 29, 2026
- What lies underneathThe science of suicidal pain: theories and neurobiologySep 26, 2026
- A plan for the hardest hourBuild a safety plan, with a free tool you can save or textSep 26, 2026
- Not evenly sharedWho suicide touches most, and what protectsSep 26, 2026
- Ketamine and the suicidal crisisRapid relief of suicidal thinking: what we know and don'tSep 21, 2026
- Build a safety planFifteen minutes. Save it as a PDF, print a wallet card, or text it to someone you trust.Tool
- PHQ-9 depression checkNine questions, two minutes — including the one about thoughts of death, with help built in.Screener
- New medicine: what's urgent?Tap what you've noticed since starting or changing a medicine and see whether it can wait, needs a call today, or needs help now.Tool
- Which medicines carry a suicide warning?Eighteen medicines and classes, boxed or not, and why.Tool
- Ketamine, Esketamine, and SuicidalityThe full evidence, 25 references, as PDF and web.Paper
Numbers worth saving
- 988 Suicide & Crisis LifelineCall or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org. Any hour, in the US. Veterans press 1; Spanish press 2.
- Crisis Text LineText HOME to 741741, any hour.
- The Trevor ProjectFor LGBTQ+ young people: 1-866-488-7386, or text START to 678-678.
- SafeUTA free Utah app with licensed crisis counselors by chat or call, any hour.
- Outside the USfindahelpline.com lists free lines in more than 130 countries.
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