If you need urgent help
If you are in immediate danger or may act on thoughts of harming yourself or someone else, contact local emergency services now or go to the nearest emergency department. If possible, ask a trusted person to stay with you.
Midlife is not an emergency service. Conversations are not monitored by a human, and our guides cannot call for help or know whether you are safe.
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If you want ongoing support
Our Find a Human Therapist page can help you start looking for a qualified provider. You can also contact a primary care professional and explain what has changed.
If the chat won’t connect
Check your connection, then use the retry option in the chat. Your draft stays in the page if a message cannot be sent. If the service is unavailable, you can still explore the reading room or seek human support.
Ending a conversation
Use “End conversation” to clear the messages from the open page and end the server session. Reloading or closing the page also clears the chat text from that page. We cannot recover a transcript for you. See the Privacy policy for details about technical records and provider processing.