I am thinking of hurting myself or someone else

Ambulance - Call 000

If there is an immediate risk to your physical health and if emergency medical attention is required, then contact the Ambulance Service directly on 000. This may include situations where someone has caused serious physical harm to themselves and has a physical illness or injury (actual or suspected), has overdosed on drugs, alcohol, or medication, or is under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Call 000

Police - 000

If there is an immediate threat to your or other’s safety, call the Police immediately on 000. Examples of immediate threats include actual or threatened violence to self or others, being in a dangerous environment (eg. in an isolated site late at night), presence of a lethal weapon/firearm (or history of the use of one), presence of ideas of suicide/homicide with impulsive or aggressive behaviours (or a history of these behaviours).
Call 000

Mental Health Line - 1800 011 511

The Mental Health Line is staffed by mental health professionals. This state-wide helpline provides telephone triage assessment and referral services, and gives people access to expert mental health advice and support. The Mental Health Line staff can put you in contact with the local mental health crisis or acute care teams. The Mental Health Line also provides advice about clinical symptoms and local treatment options for health and care service providers, such as general practitioners, police and ambulance officers.
Call 1800 011 511

Mental Health Assessment and Acute Care Team

The Access Team are the first point of contact and the intake service for people living in the Nepean Blue Mountains region who are experiencing acute mental health symptoms, for example; depression, anxiety, eating disorders and psychosis. You can call this team if, for example, you: have ideas or hallucinations of suicide/homicide, are highly distressed or have acute mental health problems, are not sure how to access help/care.

The team provides comprehensive mental health assessment, intervention, information about mental health and referral to the most appropriate clinical team or other treatment/support services.

The Access Team operates 7 days a week 8.30am – 10:30pm (including public holidays), with on-call clinicians after 10pm.

Call 1800 011 511