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A safety plan is a document that lists things you can do to help you cope. It will remind you of reasons to live and who you can reach out to when you are low and feeling suicidal.
When you are feeling well and thinking clearly, take the opportunity to write your safety plan. You can write it with someone you trust, like a close friend, your doctor or counsellor. Make sure to keep it in a place where you can easily find it, such as a notebook, your computer or phone, or next to your bed. You can also share it with someone you trust such as a close friend, family or your GP or mental health professional.
There are a range of helpful websites and smart phone apps that can help you write, store and remember your safety plan.
Use the Beyond Now website or mobile app to create, save, print and share your safety plan. You can also update it whenever you need to. The website or mobile app will walk you through 7 steps asking you questions to help you know what to write.
A downloadable and printable PDF booklet with information on understanding and dealing with suicidal thoughts, ideas of activities to help you feel better and a printable Safety Plan you can fill out.
An app that allows young people over 12 to ask for help when they need it most from people they know and trust. Through the app you can invite friends and family to join your ‘crew’, who take an oath to help you confidentially and without judgement. You can create and share a safety plan with your crew and quickly access information on emergency support when you need it.
This article by Suicide Call Back Service walks you step by step through writing a safety plan.
This article by ReachOut walks young people step by step through writing a safety plan.
Talking about suicide and sharing your suicidal thoughts can feel challenging. This article by Suicide Call Back Service can help you working out who to talk to and what to say.
A suicide prevention campaign featuring real stories of people with experiences of suicidal thoughts and actions, that challenges the perception of “being a burden” on your family, friends and other people. This online resources is for people having thoughts, people concerned about others, and people wanting to support the community.
Holding on to Hope takes the listener on a journey of personal stories from people who have come through the darkness of suicidality, who share the connections and reasons that gave them hope to continue living.
Stories of Hope is a series of video stories shared by people who have experienced suicidality, in the hope they encourage others to take the step to seek help or offer hope to others.
Kurdiji 1.0 is an app by Australian Indigenous Elders designed to save young Indigenous lives. Using 3D visualisation of ceremony and dance, audio recordings, video and text, Kurdiji 1.0 will provide some of the cultural nourishment provided by initiation in community. The app will reach out to young people who can’t live on country, or who feel cut off or isolated. By reconnecting people with language, skin name, ceremony and law, this app will increase resilience by creating a sense of belonging.
Identifying that someone is not feeling quite right and knowing how to help can be difficult. However, you don’t need to be a professional to check in on someone you are worried about. There is help available for you in starting the conversation and helping the person. Be brave, reach out and start the conversation with someone you are worried about, it could save their life.
When someone close to you has suicidal thoughts or attempts suicide, it can be hard to respond to their needs while also looking after yourself. This site is for you. You are not alone was made with the help of people who have been carers and know how tough it is.
You can read helpful tips and information and download their Toolkit for Helping Someone At Risk of Suicide on the Lifeline website. If you are concerned that someone is struggling or might be thinking about suicide and you aren't sure how to talk to them, you can also call Lifeline or reach out via text or chat.
Discussing suicidal thoughts may seem like a daunting prospect. This article by the Suicide Call Back Service shares clear and practical advice on staring and having these conversations.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia, their diversity, histories and knowledge and their continuing connections to land, waterways and culture. We pay our respect to all Australian Indigenous Peoples and their cultures, and to Elders of past, present and future generations.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia, their diversity, histories and knowledge and their continuing connections to land, waterways and culture. We pay our respect to all Australian Indigenous Peoples and their cultures, and to Elders of past, present and future generations.
Brisbane North PHN wishes to acknowledge the experience and expertise of the My Mental Health Steering Committee, delegates of the Peer Participation in Mental Health Services (PPIMS) network and health professionals in developing the My Mental Health Website.
