Your safety plan

When thoughts of suicide are overwhelming, staying safe for even 5-10 minutes takes a great deal of strength. This plan is to use during those times. It isn’t a plan for how to rid yourself of thoughts of suicide, it looks at staying safe right now so that you still have the chance to fight another day and access support for whatever is impacting on those thoughts. These thoughts and feelings can change, it doesn’t mean you will feel like this forever. Let’s concentrate on what you can do right now.

If you would like to see our confidentiality policy, you can read it here

If you need to talk to someone, call us on 0800 068 4141.

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What are the reasons I don’t want to die today? Are there people or animals that make me want to stay safe? Do I have hope that things might change? Am I afraid of dying? Do I want to stay alive just for now?

This is HOPELINE247's example safety plan, If I want to continue working on staying safe for now by making a suicide safety plan, I can call on 0800 068 4141.

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Whilst I am focusing on safety, how can I make it harder to act on any plans I might have for suicide? Where can I put things I could use to harm myself so they are harder to get to if I feel overwhelmed?

This doesn’t mean having to get rid of them forever. It is because I am looking at staying safe right now. If these things make it harder for me to do this, I want to make it harder to use them. This will give me time to connect to that part of me that doesn’t want to die.

This is HOPELINE247's example safety plan, If I want to continue working on staying safe for now by making a suicide safety plan, I can call on 0800 068 4141.

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Do I use any drugs, alcohol or medication to cope? These can make it harder to stay safe if they make me more impulsive or lower my mood. What can I do to make these safe?

If I have acted on thoughts of suicide before, what makes it harder to stay safe that I might need to consider while staying safe today?

Do I have any mental health concerns or symptoms that make it harder to stay safe? How can I help with these?

This is HOPELINE247's example safety plan, If I want to continue working on staying safe for now by making a suicide safety plan, I can call on 0800 068 4141.

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What coping strategies can I use? What has worked in the past? Is there anywhere I can go that will feel safe?

This is HOPELINE247's example safety plan, If I want to continue working on staying safe for now by making a suicide safety plan, I can call on 0800 068 4141.

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What strengths do I have as a person and how might this keep me safe? What do people who are around me say about this? Am I creative? Determined? Caring? Do I have faith or any positive statement I use for inspiration? How can I use this in my plan to stay safe right now?

This is HOPELINE247's example safety plan, If I want to continue working on staying safe for now by making a suicide safety plan, I can call on 0800 068 4141.



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If I can’t stay safe, who is available to help me? Who has helped me in the past? What helplines or emergency contacts can I use?

This is HOPELINE247's example safety plan, If I want to continue working on staying safe for now by making a suicide safety plan, I can call on 0800 068 4141.

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After staying safe-for-now from suicide, what longer term support do I want? How might I access this? What do I need to change for my thoughts of suicide to change? Where might I start to get help with this?

This is HOPELINE247's example safety plan, If I want to continue working on staying safe for now by making a suicide safety plan, I can call on 0800 068 4141.

Confidentiality

At PAPYRUS we offer a confidential support and advice service giving you a safe space to talk. This safety plan, created by you and your adviser, is a private document that will not be shared with anyone else. It does not collect or contain any personal information that could be used to identify you.

To ensure the privacy of your plan, from now on it will only be available to view using the device (computer or mobile) that you are currently viewing it on. This ensures that even if someone could guess your “two words” from the millions of possible combinations, they still would not be able to view your plan.

If you wish to discuss your plan with one of our advisers in the future, you can choose to share your “two words” with an adviser and they will be able to view and update your plan with you.

If you wish to read more about how PAPYRUS ensure a confidential service please read our full Confidentiality Policy.