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Suicide Prevention: Now Matters Now

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Now Matters Now’s website features videos and stories that provide skills and support for coping with suicidal thoughts.

Have you had suicidal thoughts? Problems that felt unsolvable?

You are in excellent company – we’ve been there.

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Here are the stories, including research based ways for managing the most painful moments of life.

Now Matters Now Teaches Mindfulness, Mindfulness of Current Emotion, Opposite Action and Paced-breathing. These skills are part of Dialectical Behavior Therapy or DBT, proven to be helpful for people considering suicide.

These tools are not considered a replacement for one-to-one counseling. You do not have to have suicidal thoughts or mental health problems to use these tools – they are useful for most people and many problems. Visit Now Means Now for examples and prevention tools.

NEED HELP NOW?

Call or Text 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

Hours:
24 hours. 7 days a week
Language:
English. Spanish
Website:
https://988lifeline.org/
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