If you are in need of immediate support or crisis services, please reach out to a local or national helpline.

Trans Lifeline is a peer support phone service run by & for trans people. They will avoid involving the police in most cases.

Call (877) 565-8860

You may also call 988, the national suicide hotline, or text the Crisis Helpline, to be connected to local crisis resources; please be aware that they may utilize police intervention in some cases.

Additional helplines and supportive crisis resources:

Sometimes, in moments of crisis, it can feel supportive to engage in “regulation” exercises that can calm spiraling emotions and sensations that keep you in fight/flight/freeze, and move towards a place of more regulated experience for the present moment.

If this sounds helpful to you, here is a link to a document with regulation techniques that can engage the parts of your nervous system that encourage you to feel present and connected: https://drive.proton.me/urls/2Q0AVY9QBR#tYxg3MxFAwEj