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Stay Alive

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The Stay Alive app is a pocket suicide prevention resource for the UK, packed full of useful information to help you stay safe. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide.

In addition to the resources, the app includes a safety plan, customisable reasons for living, and a life box where you can store photos that are important to you.

“I have used this app with volunteers and service users across the UK and the feedback is consistently positive. People have used it when in crisis and say it is literally life-saving.”

Suffolk User Forum Survey 2017
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Find Help Now

Are you thinking of suicide, or worried about someone else and don’t want to use the app? Check our “Find Help Now” pages for:

  • Helplines
  • Websites
  • Other services

These can help when you are having thoughts of suicide or are in a suicidal crisis. They can also help if you are concerned about someone.

We believe there’s no shame in reaching out for help if you are feeling stressed, depressed or experiencing suicidal crisis in some form. If you’re not sure of who to reach out to in your community and don’t want to download the app, some of the contacts on our “Find Help Now” pages could help. People who care are ready to help you right now.

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New features

The Stay Alive app has been given a complete overhaul. It’s packed with more resources, more tools, and more information to help you or those you are worried about stay safe.

  • Optionally create a StayAlive account that will allow you to synchronise your LifeBox and other content across multiple devices, including the new website at www.stayalive.app.
  • The LifeBox now allows you to add videos and other file types alongside your existing photos.
  • There’s a new search facility in the Find Help Now section which allows you to search for resources, helping you find exactly what you need.
  • You can now share your Safety Plan, Wellness Plan, and Reasons for Living with family, friends, or anyone that may be supporting you.

Life-saving features

  • Quick access to UK national crisis support helplines.
  • Quick access to local crisis services across of the UK.
  • A safety plan that can be filled out by a person considering suicide.
  • A LifeBox to which the user can upload photos from their phone reminding them of their reasons to stay alive.
  • Safety contacts page.
  • Strategies for staying safe from suicide.
  • How to help a person thinking about suicide.
  • Wellness Plan for your recovery, a place for your positive thoughts, inspirations and ideas.
  • Suicide myth-busting.
  • Research-based reasons for living.
  • Online support services and other helpful apps.
  • Suicide bereavement resources.

All guidance and information within the app are reviewed and updated every 6 months to check all resources are updated and links are in working order.

The app is fully compliant with GDPR and international data management standards.

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Patient Safety Awards 2015 Winner

“This weekend I found the online support list and the keeping safe for now section helpful and made me feel less lonely. Unlike so many mental health apps yours is not patronising and doesn’t claim to ‘fix’ anyone. No app will ever be able to fix me but yours kept me company during a very long, dark weekend. Thank you for that.”

Anonymous, via Facebook

“[The app helped me help someone else to stay alive] by introducing and making clear the option of ‘stay safe for now’. This was so helpful for the young person I was working with who felt as if she had no choice other than to try and kill herself given how hopeless she felt.”

Anonymous, via online survey

“Aside from Breathing exercises, grounding techniques and lots of useful tips and contacts, it has a section called ‘My Life-box’. Here I can add pictures that remind me of my reasons to stay alive. I uploaded a funny photo of Si, one of my Mum and Dad celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and one of Saagar and I, happy together. This is the next best thing to a friend sitting with me, holding my hand when I am down and out.”

SANGEETA MAHAJAN, on her blog.
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A life saving story…

“I have had the Stay Alive app on my phone for many months, I keep my safety plan updated on it and have read a lot of the content. This has been incredibly helpful for me, but it is in the event of crisis that I have found the app most useful.

A few months ago I found myself in a position where my thoughts of suicide were so strong and prominent, that I needed immediate help to avoid another suicide attempt. In previous moments like this I have not known where to turn for help and have instead begun turning suicide plans into actions.

Fortunately, when I was trying to think if there were options other than suicide open to me, I remembered that I have the app and that it might help. I was able to immediately dial through to a helpline using the crisis resources on the “find help now” section of the app and they were able to support me and keep me safe in the short term, until further help could be reached. They were also able to help friends look after me.

I think perhaps without the app and its ability to help me to find help, strong suicidal thoughts would have become another suicide attempt. I believe that it is a unique resource which I carry with me everywhere I go, which gives it an unbelievable scope to help.”

Brighton resident

StayAlive in professional healthcare settings

  • The app is included on mental health patients’ discharge paperwork at Brighton & Hove and Haywards Heath Accident & Emergency Departments
  • The app is pre-installed on a number of counselling service waiting room tablets
  • Sussex Police promote the app to staff on their intranet and also to community members on their public-facing website
  • Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust promote the app to their staff and service users
  • A wide range of mental health practitioners (both clinical and non-clinical) and therapists are using the app in and/or between sessions with their patients and clients

A recent independent evaluation report (PDF) from the Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network showed the app helped 76% of at-risk users to stay safe from suicide. The upgrade and evaluation were funded by the Crisis Care Concordat – Beyond Places of Safety scheme from the Department of Health & Social Care.

Stay Alive: Qualitative Review and Opportunity Cost Model (PDF)

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Did you know 1 in 5 people will have suicidal thoughts at some point in their lives?

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