Charity Papyrus is dedicated to preventing suicide in young people

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Charity aims to prevent suicide in young people

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00:00 Hi, my name's Rhiann and I'm a Hopeline 24/7 manager for Papyrus and we have a

00:06 helpline which is called Hopeline 24/7 which is available 24/7 for anyone

00:14 under the ages of 35. Hopeline has been running for many years now, it was

00:19 set up by a bereaved mum who lost her son unfortunately to suicide when he was

00:24 very young and so like I said we support young people from primary school age all

00:30 the way up to college age and above that like I said anyone under 35 can contact

00:35 us. We speak to many young people every day on the helpline and there's

00:40 different ways that you can contact us. We have a helpline which runs 24/7 which

00:45 you can ring on 0800 068 4141 and we also have a text service, an email

00:53 service and a web chat service which runs throughout the day as well.

00:57 Reaching out to talk about your thoughts of suicide is actually really brave, it's

01:02 not easy to do that, it's actually quite difficult and there's a lot of stigma

01:07 unfortunately still attached to having suicidal feelings but it's really normal

01:11 to have them and very very common and we just want people to know that and

01:15 understand that. It's actually a huge sign of strength if you reach out and

01:20 talk openly about those feelings and if you do that means that you can have

01:25 people around you who can support you in the right way and help you to navigate

01:28 through those feelings because it's really tough to do that by yourself.

01:32 Suicide Prevention Advisor will be on hand to support you with your thoughts

01:36 of suicide and what they do is they focus on helping you to stay safe so

01:41 what that means is talking through your thoughts of suicide and without any

01:46 judgment it's a totally safe space for you to talk about anything to do with

01:50 your thoughts of suicide even if you've potentially got plans for suicide you

01:54 know we want to chat that through with you and come up with a plan on how you

01:58 can stay safe from that. We don't only just support young people we

02:03 obviously support family members, friends, colleagues, teachers, anybody who's

02:07 concerned about someone who could be potentially experiencing thoughts of

02:11 suicide as well so you know pick up the phone if you want to chat that through

02:15 sometimes it's healthy to talk it through with an advisor who's

02:18 knowledgeable about those things rather than you sit with it all by yourself and

02:22 try and deal with it alone. Anyone who contacts our helpline stays totally

02:28 anonymous, none of the information gets shared externally, some information will

02:33 stay with us however that will only be used if we need to keep you safe and if

02:37 we need to pass it on for emergency reasons but other than that all of your

02:41 information stays safe in our database. So if you want to know more about

02:45 Papyrus and about Hortline 247 feel free to pick up the phone and just give us a

02:50 call just so we can chat that through with you because it might be that you

02:54 want to know more about the charity before you contact us and that's

02:57 absolutely fine so like I said earlier you can ring us on the helpline which is

03:01 24/7 on 0800 068 4141. We do also have a text service and you can find that

03:09 number on our website and we also have email service and the web chat service

03:14 which run throughout the day.

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