Here, you will find resources, tools, and help for mental health needs that are immediate or beyond our services. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or to schedule an appointment with our team of experts.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
If you are having thoughts of suicide or self harm, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255.
Immediate Help Services
Salt Lake County Behavioral Health Services provides a number of immediate help services for adults and youth. These include detox services as well as resources for those experiencing a mental health issue.
Salt Lake County Behavioral Health
Mental Health “First Aid” skills:
If you are caring for or dealing with someone having a mental health episode, the following steps will help you understand and manage issues when they arise:
- Speak to their primary care physician about their symptoms.
- Choose hope
- Find stability where you can. Consistently watch a show every night. Consistently read in the tub. Go to bed at the same time.
- Patterns: practice box breathing, go for a walk, dance, listen to music
- Connection to self and others. Lunch with friends, write a letter to your child self, talk to your partner.
- Get outside every day.
Note: 2-5 are ideas from Bessel van der Kolk, MD.
Understanding the human mind has evolved in such a way that it naturally creates psychological suffering by Dr. Russ Harris:
Books and authors related to wisdom, spirituality, and other contemplative practices: