About this resource

Scope, method, review cycle and status of the information published here.

What this is

An information resource on suicide prevention, written for the general public in Europe. It covers four areas: how to get help, how to help someone else, what the European data show, and what the evidence says about prevention.

It is written for readers without a clinical background. The assumed reader is someone worried about a friend, a parent who has found something they did not expect, a manager who has just been told something at work, or a person trying to work out whether what they are feeling is serious enough to mention.

The material is free to read, print and redistribute. There is no account, no tracking, and no advertising.

Status and funding

This resource is editorially independent. It receives no funding from the European Union, from any national government or from any other public body, and it is not affiliated with any of the organisations it links to.

References on this site to European Union programmes, institutions and legislation describe work carried out by those bodies. They are included because that work determines what is available to a reader in a given country. They do not imply any connection between those bodies and this site, and nothing here is published on their behalf or with their endorsement.

How the content is put together

Three rules govern what is published here.

1. Safe messaging. No descriptions of methods. No detailed accounts of individual deaths. No framing that presents suicide as an understandable or inevitable response to circumstances. These are not matters of taste. There is consistent evidence that certain kinds of coverage raise risk among people who are already vulnerable, and the European guidance written for journalists sets out the same rules at greater length.
2. Figures are attributed and dated. Every statistic is attributed to the body that produced it, with the year the data describe rather than the year it was published. Where sources disagree, the disagreement is reported rather than quietly resolved, and where a source has not been read directly, the site says so.
3. Crisis numbers are checked at source. Every helpline number published here is taken from the operator's own website or from the national authority that designates it, never from another list of helplines. Numbers change. A directory that has quietly gone stale is worse than no directory at all.

Review cycle

The pages carrying crisis numbers are checked twice a year against the operators' own pages. The pages carrying statistics are revised when the source bodies publish new data, which for Eurostat is once a year. Each page states the month it was last reviewed.

Last full review of this resource: September 2026. All figures and crisis numbers on the site were checked in that month.

What this resource does not do

• It is not a crisis service. There is no helpline, chat or support inbox here, and individual situations cannot be answered. A message sent to this site will not be read by a clinician and may not be read at all.
• It is not medical advice. Nothing here is a diagnosis, a treatment recommendation, or a substitute for seeing a clinician.
• It does not campaign or fundraise. No donations are solicited, and no organisation pays for a listing or a link.
• It does not override the operator. Every crisis service is linked at its own address, and the operator's page is always the authoritative record of its number, its hours and its languages. Where this site and an operator disagree, the operator is right.

Languages

This resource is published in English only. Crisis services themselves normally answer in the national language, and a number of the services listed on Get support also take calls in English. The European helpline directory linked from that page records the languages each service covers, which is worth checking before you call from abroad.

Why the web addresses look the way they do

The addresses of these pages still carry the shape of an older website that was hosted on this domain and has since closed. The paths are kept because links to them exist elsewhere on the web and would otherwise break.

The content behind those addresses is unrelated to the earlier site. No text, image or other material from it is reproduced anywhere here, and this resource has no connection to its former owners.