About Rise From The Edge
Most suicide prevention content stops at a phone number. That is the right first answer and a poor only answer, because the hardest part is rarely the hour of the crisis — it is the weeks after, when the crisis team has gone, the waiting list is eleven months long, and nobody has told you what recovery is supposed to feel like. This site does both. Every crisis contact is verified against the provider's own page and dated, so you can see when a human last checked it. Everything after that — safety plans, self-checks, worksheets, guides for the people around you — is built for the long middle, where most of the work of getting better actually happens.
What this site will never do
These are not aspirations. Each one is enforced by a check that runs before the site can be published — if any of them is broken, the build fails and nothing ships.
- We never describe, name or compare methods of suicide, anywhere on this site — including in statistics, stories and news coverage.
- We never publish a crisis contact we have not checked against the provider's own page, and every one shows the date a human last checked it.
- We never assign anyone an individual suicide risk score. Risk prediction is not accurate at the level of one person, and a reassuring 'low risk' label is actively dangerous.
- We never host a forum, comment section or open message board. There is no safe way to moderate an unmoderated conversation about suicide at 3am.
- We never put a sign-in wall, a pop-up or an advert between someone in crisis and a phone number.
Why there is no forum
Peer support genuinely helps, and a great many people have been kept alive by strangers on the internet. We still will not host it, for one reason: there is no safe way to run an unmoderated conversation about suicide at three in the morning, and there is no honest way to promise moderation at three in the morning that we could keep. A space that is monitored during office hours and empty when it matters is worse than no space at all.
What we do instead is point you at the services that are staffed at three in the morning, and check that their numbers work.
Why there is no chatbot
You will not find an AI assistant on this site. An unsupervised model in conversation with someone suicidal is not something anyone can currently make safe, and dressing one up as support would be indefensible whatever the disclaimer said. The scripts in the toolkit are written by people and are the same every time.
Why nothing you write is stored on a server
Safety plans and mood logs are health data about suicidality, and a safety plan also contains the names and numbers of the people closest to you. Held on a server, that is one of the more dangerous collections of information you could assemble. So we do not hold it — everything you write stays in your browser, and there is nothing for anyone to breach, subpoena or sell.
The cost of that decision is real and we would rather state it than hide it: it does not sync between your devices, and clearing your browser data will delete it. More about what we store.
Who writes this
This site is independently run and carries no advertising. It is not a substitute for a doctor, a therapist or a crisis service, and it never asks you to sign in.
It is also not finished, and it says so where that matters — countries without a checked national service say so on their own page rather than padding it out.