Are you safe right now?

Before anything else. If you are in danger at this moment, stop reading and call for help - a course cannot sit with you and a person can. If you need help right now: Umang 0311-778-6264, Rozan 0304-111-1741, Taskeen 0311-783-3000, or go to any hospital emergency department. You can also write to us here, any time.

If you are not in immediate danger: you are welcome here, and nothing in this course will lecture you, ask you to promise anything, or tell you what you owe anybody. Thoughts of ending your life are far more common than people admit, they are a symptom of pain rather than a character flaw, and they are survivable. This is a plan for the nights when they are loud.

Two numbers in your phone

1. Save one crisis number in your phone now, under a name you will find at three in the morning.
2. Save one person who would answer. Anybody - a cousin, a friend, a teacher.
3. If you cannot think of a person, write "Depression.pk" instead and keep this chat.
4. That is today done. Nothing else is required of you.