If you are in crisis
Help is a call away, right now.
Free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day. You do not have to be in a specific kind of crisis to call — if you are not sure, call anyway.
If you or someone else is in immediate physical danger, call 911.
About this page
Operation Whole Health is an education and peer-community nonprofit. We are not a crisis line, and we are not staffed to respond to one — which is exactly why the number above comes first. The Veterans Crisis Line is answered by trained crisis counselors, many of them veterans themselves, and calling does not require you to be enrolled in anything or give us any information at all.
What we are here for is what comes after — understanding what changed and what might help you feel steadier over time. That is slower work, and it starts whenever you are ready for it, not before.
You do not need to explain yourself, and you do not need to have the right words. Call 988, then press 1.