Download a range of STOP Suicide campaign resources for yourself and your community. These include self-help leaflets for those who are experiencing suicidal thoughts as well as those who are concerned that someone they know might be at risk.
There are also posters giving the key campaign messages, STOP Suicide pledge cards for you to carry in your wallet and ‘I’d Ask’ badges to help you spread the word.
On this page there is also information on the signs and symptoms of depression, the Five Ways to Wellbeing, links to help for those who have been bereaved by suicide and lots of other useful resources.
Coping with Suicidal Thoughts Leaflet
Supporting Someone Experiencing Suicidal Thoughts Leaflet
STOP Suicide How to talk to someone who is suicidal (phrase bank)
One Conversation can Save a Life Web Banner
I Don’t Know If I’d Be Here Now Web Banner
Below you can find translated STOP Suicide resources in Polish, Romanian and Lithuanian:
Suicide Prevention and Domestic Violence in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Clinical depression lasts for at least two week and affects how a person thinks, feels and behaves. It will also interfere with the individual’s functioning – i.e. their ability to work, study and/or have satisfying relationships. Depression is not something that you can just ‘snap out of’ but it is treatable.
If you think you might be depressed, the best place to start is by seeking help from your GP.
Grieving and dealing with the changes that follow any death is never easy. However, those who are bereaved by suicide often feel particularly isolated at a time when they are in severe emotional pain. Indeed, when someone you know takes their own life it can leave you feeling so low that you may be vulnerable to thoughts of suicide yourself.
If that is your experience, it is nothing to be ashamed of and you are not alone. You may want to talk through these thoughts and feelings with someone you trust – a friend, someone in your family, perhaps with your GP or a trained volunteer from organisations specialising in bereavement support.
Lifecraft offers a Suicide Bereavement Support Service which is available to family and friends in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. For more information please visit the Lifecraft website.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) offer Bereavement Support Group Meetings. These are normally held on the second Monday evening of each month between 6pm – 7.30pm. However, please email or call 07973883511 before attending.
Other organisations which specialise in bereavement support are the Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SOBS), Cruse and Suicide&Co. Please click here for Cruse Bereavement Care Support for people bereaved by suicide.
Cruse has also launched Hope Again – a youth website where young people who are facing grief can share their stories with others and find information about available services.
Help is at Hand is a guide offering practical and emotional support for people bereaved by suicide. More info: www.supportaftersuicide.org.uk
Cambridge Cruse also offers a group for those bereaved by suicide which meets the first Wednesday of every month at the Friends’ Meeting House on Jesus Lane at 7.30pm (no meeting in August).
A support group for parents bereaved through suicide, set up by Rosie Wilson under the umbrella of The Campassionate Friends, meets in Cambridge on the first Tuesday of every month from 7.30-9.30pm. For more information please contact Rosie: p.wilson34@ntlworld.com
Finally, Public Health England (PHE) has published Support after a suicide: A guide to providing local services, which offers practical advice for commissioners to understand why and how they can deliver support after suicide in their local areas.
Postvention: this document provides a toolkit to support employers in the event of a suicide amongst their employees, at work or outside the workplace.
StayingSafe.net offers compassion, kindness and easy ways to help keep people safer from thoughts of harm and suicide, seek support and discover hope of recovery through powerful videos from people with personal experience.
The website provides vital ‘Safety Plan’ guidance tools jointly funded by NHS England, with easy to print / online templates and guidance video tutorials purposefully designed to help people through the process of writing their own Safety Plan to build hope, identify actions and strategies to resist suicidal thoughts and develop positive ways to cope with stress and emotional distress.
Here is our example of a completed safety plan, designed to show how this important tool can be filled out. While every safety plan will look different based on individual needs and circumstances, this example provides some ideas for creating your own. On StayingSafe.net, you’ll find the safety plan template and further information to support you in developing one tailored to your needs. We also have translated examples available, offering inclusive resources for a wider audience—links to these can be found below.
Tragically, suicide takes far too many lives, yet suicide is preventable. Anyone struggling to cope or experiencing deep distress may begin to think about harming themselves and consider suicide as a means to escape their emotional pain.
It can be incredibly difficult to think clearly during these times. Everyone is encouraged to PREPARE for possible difficult times ahead BEFORE they happen, by completing a Safety Plan.
Safety plan example – Bulgarian
Safety plan example – Lithuanian
Safety plan example – Portuguese
Safety plan example – Romanian
Designed by The SUN Network and people who access Mental Health services, the Crisis Card aims to support and enable you in a health crisis to better manage your mental health and wellbeing.
The Crisis Card is available for people who have mental health challenges who reside in Cambridgeshire.
Download your paper copy now or from the SUN Network website. Also available from local Mental Health Services.
* Crisis Card App: Important Update *
In the event of a health crisis, with its traffic light feature, this user-friendly app provides a one-button-press ‘call for help’, so you can reach out to your support network without having to face a phone call, you can communicate your needs without having to talk, and share your location, without having to know it yourself. Available FREE from The App store or Google Play.
A suicide prevention pocket resource for the UK, Stay Alive offers help and support both to people with thoughts of suicide and to people concerned about someone else. The app can be personalised to tailor it to the user. Available FREE from The App store or Google Play.
Counselling Directory (UK)
Find a counsellor or psychotherapist dealing with Suicidal Thoughts.
Men needing a place to talk can join Andy’s Man Club support group which aims to prevent male suicides. Find out more details about where these groups meet.
With over 30 years experience of working with Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and a background in youth and community work, Jan Bridget discusses how LGBT people are more likely to experience mental health problems than heterosexuals and what they can do to get help.
The Royal College of Nursing and Public Health England have also developed a toolkit for nurses in preventing suicide among lesbian, gay and bisexual young people and preventing suicide among trans young people.
MindLine Trans+
For transgender people, their families & friends.
Telephone 0300 330 5468
Open 8pm to Midnight, Mondays & Fridays
National telephone/email/online chat for the LGBTQIA community
Telephone 0800 0119 100
Open 10:00-22:00 every day
Or email hello@switchboard.lgbt – they aim to reply within 5 days
Stop LGB&T Hate Crime helpline – call 0808 801 0661. Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year; calls are free from landlines and most mobiles but they can always call you back if you want.
Or visit the Stop Hate UK website.
The Five Ways to Well-being are a set of evidence-based actions, researched and developed by the New Economics Foundation which promote people’s wellbeing. They are: Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Keep Learning and Give. These activities are simple things individuals can do in their everyday lives:
Feeling close to, and valued by, other people is a fundamental human need. Social relationships are critical for promoting wellbeing and can help reduce the risk of mental ill health for people of all ages. With this in mind, try to do something different today – and make a connection.
Regular physical activity is associated with lower rates of depression and anxiety across all age groups. Exercise is also essential for slowing age-related cognitive decline and for promoting well-being. It doesn’t need to be particularly intense for you to feel good – slower-paced activities, such as walking, can have the added benefit of encouraging social interactions as well as providing some level of exercise.
‘Taking notice’ of the world around you, in the here and now, can directly enhance your wellbeing. Many of us spend so much time thinking about things in the past or worries about the future that we don’t enjoy the moment and the environment around us. Try taking some time every day to savour the moment and the environment around you.
A few ideas:
Continued learning through life enhances self-esteem and encourages social interaction and a more active life. Signing up for a night class or pursuing a new interest or hobby is a great way to boost your wellbeing. However, you don’t have to sign up to a formal activity to learn new things. Here are a few more ideas which you could try building in to your regular activities:
Participation in social and community life – by volunteering for example – is strongly linked with improved wellbeing. Research has shown that carrying out an act of kindness once a week over a six-week period is associated with an increase in wellbeing.
Further information about the evidence behind the five ways to wellbeing
Atlas of Variation
Public Health England’s tool shows suicide rates and associated risk factors for each local authority area.
‘Staying safe if you’re not sure life’s worth living’
The new Connecting with People online resource for people who are distressed or potentially suicidal.
Samaritans’ Media Guidelines for Reporting Suicide and other factsheets
Produced following extensive consultation with journalists and editors throughout the industry.
STOP Suicide ‘I’d Ask’ Badge
Stop Suicide Email Signature
STOP Suicide Pledge Postcard
STOP Suicide Pledge Card
S Word Campaign
‘Hope’
