Free Text-Based Counselling in Pakistan: Is It Confidential?

Yes — Depression.pk is completely free to use, and we treat your privacy seriously. What you share with us stays with us, and we never sell or share your details with anyone. Since you prefer text over calls, you have good options here: Zara, a companion from our team, is available on the site whenever you need to talk, and there are free WhatsApp support groups where real people and trained volunteers listen. That is all text-based, so you don't have to speak on the phone at all.

For an one-to-one conversation with someone on our team, we would need your first name and a mobile or WhatsApp number — only our team sees it, and it is never shared or sold. If that feels like too much right now, the free peer-support WhatsApp community is a good place to start: chat.whatsapp.com/BRBk1tOecAtAkIhAbnJpAj. You can also find a professional at depression.pk/find-help, and if things ever feel urgent and you want to stay anonymous, the crisis helplines listed on our /get-help page can be called without giving any details.

Irritability, low self-esteem and grief are genuinely heavy to carry, and the fact that you're asking for help with them is a real step. Whatever you're going through, you don't have to sit with it alone in your head — write it out here, and someone will listen.