Specialized mental health treatment designed for lawyers navigating clinical depression while managing the unique professional pressures, confidentiality concerns, and career implications of seeking psychological care in the legal field.
A litigation partner at a prestigious firm sits in my office describing her depression with the same analytical precision she applies to legal briefs. “I meet every objective criterion for success,” she says. “I made partner at thirty-four, I win cases, my billables exceed targets. But I feel nothing. I wake up dreading the day. I fantasize about disappearing. Everything requires enormous effort just to maintain the appearance of functioning. And I can’t tell anyone at the firm because mental health issues raise questions about fitness to practice. So I keep performing competence while feeling like I’m drowning.”
This is the hidden reality of depression in the legal profession. While law firms emphasize mental health awareness and many state bars offer confidential support programs, attorneys still face powerful disincentives to seeking help: concerns about bar admission disclosures, fear of partnership track implications, worry about client confidence, and the profession’s deeply entrenched culture that equates emotional struggle with professional weakness. The result is that lawyers often delay treatment for years, functioning at diminished capacity while depression worsens into something far harder to address.
In this article, you’ll understand why attorneys experience depression at rates significantly higher than the general population, how the specific demands and culture of legal practice create and maintain depressive symptoms, why concerns about confidentiality and professional consequences often prevent lawyers from seeking needed treatment, and what specialized, truly confidential therapeutic approaches look like for attorneys who can’t afford to have mental health treatment become part of their professional record.
Understanding depression in the legal context isn’t about weakness or inability to handle stress—it’s about recognizing that certain professional environments create psychological vulnerabilities that affect even the most capable practitioners. When those vulnerabilities aren’t addressed, they compromise not just personal wellbeing but professional effectiveness, ethical judgment, and the quality of representation clients receive.
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Why Attorneys Face Elevated Depression Risk
The Structural and Psychological Factors That Affect Legal Professionals
Research consistently shows lawyers experience depression at significantly higher rates than other professions:
⚖️ Adversarial Work Structure
Legal practice is inherently adversarial—for every winner there’s a loser, every position has opposition, every argument faces counter-argument. This creates constant psychological exposure to conflict, hostility, and zero-sum thinking. Unlike collaborative professions where success can be mutual, attorneys spend careers in environments structured around opposition and combat. Over time, this adversarial immersion affects worldview, relationships, and baseline stress levels in ways that increase vulnerability to depression.
⏰ Chronic Time Pressure and Lack of Control
Court deadlines, discovery schedules, and client emergencies create unrelenting time pressure that attorneys rarely control. Unlike physicians who set appointment schedules or executives who delegate tasks, lawyers operate within systems that impose external deadlines with severe consequences for missing them. This chronic lack of autonomy over time—combined with unpredictable demands that disrupt personal plans—creates what psychologists call “low perceived control,” one of the most robust predictors of depression.
💼 Billable Hour Economics
The billable hour model creates perverse incentives that undermine wellbeing: your economic value is measured in six-minute increments, any non-billable time feels unproductive, and there’s always pressure to bill more hours regardless of how many you’ve already worked. This commodification of time and worth creates psychological trap where self-value becomes tied to productivity metrics that can never provide genuine satisfaction. The model essentially guarantees chronic feelings of inadequacy since there are always more hours you could have billed.
🎯 Perfectionism as Professional Requirement
Legal work demands extreme attention to detail where small errors can have devastating consequences—missed statutes of limitations, incorrect citations, overlooked clauses. This necessity for perfection attracts and reinforces perfectionist tendencies. But perfectionism is one of the strongest personality-level risk factors for depression, creating constant self-criticism, fear of mistakes, and inability to experience satisfaction from achievements because focus remains fixed on potential flaws. What begins as professional diligence becomes psychological liability.
Beyond structural factors, the psychological profile that succeeds in law school and early practice often creates vulnerability to depression. High-achieving, analytical individuals who excel at spotting problems and thinking critically about weaknesses—exactly the skills law school rewards—can struggle to apply those same critical faculties to their own lives without spiraling into rumination and self-criticism.
The profession also attracts individuals who derive self-worth from intellectual capability and professional achievement. When depression affects cognitive function—as it almost always does—attorneys experience not just mood symptoms but profound threats to identity. Difficulty concentrating, slowed thinking, and memory problems feel like losing the core capabilities that define you as a lawyer. This creates secondary depression about the depression itself, worsening the overall picture.
Law practice provides limited opportunities for the activities that buffer against depression. Regular exercise, consistent sleep schedules, meaningful social connection, creative expression, time in nature—the empirically supported protective factors against mood disorders—are precisely what legal careers make difficult to maintain. The profession demands sacrifice of the very things that would prevent or mitigate its psychological costs.
Many attorneys entered law for idealistic reasons—to fight injustice, help people, make meaningful impact. But the daily reality of practice often involves document review, procedural battles, and adversarial positioning that feels disconnected from those original values. This gap between idealistic motivation and mundane reality creates what psychologists call “value-behavior discrepancy,” consistently associated with depression. You’re successful by external metrics while feeling that your work lacks genuine meaning or purpose.
How Legal Culture Compounds Depression
The Professional Environment That Worsens Mental Health Struggles
Beyond structural factors, legal culture creates specific barriers to recognizing and addressing depression:
🎭 The “Zealous Advocacy” Trap
Legal ethics emphasize zealous advocacy for clients, which attorneys often internalize as requiring complete emotional detachment and tireless work regardless of personal cost. This professional norm makes acknowledging limitations—including mental health struggles—feel like ethical failure. If you can’t maintain the zealous advocacy standard due to depression affecting your capacity, admitting this triggers not just personal shame but professional identity crisis. The result: attorneys work while significantly impaired rather than seeking help.
🤐 Stigma Disguised as Wellness
Many firms now have mental health initiatives and wellness programs, creating appearance of support while actual culture remains unchanged. Attorneys recognize that using mental health resources might theoretically be encouraged but practically signals weakness, lack of commitment, or inability to handle the demands of practice. This gap between stated values and implicit norms creates additional stress: you’re told to prioritize wellbeing while simultaneously evaluated on metrics that reward sacrificing it.
💪 Toughness as Professional Identity
Legal culture valorizes toughness—mental, emotional, and physical resilience in face of pressure. This creates environment where acknowledging psychological struggle feels antithetical to professional identity. Depression becomes shameful secret rather than treatable medical condition. Attorneys describe feeling they need to be “strong enough” to handle depression without help, not recognizing that depression is literally a condition characterized by inability to use normal coping mechanisms effectively. The cultural expectation of toughness prevents help-seeking precisely when it’s most needed.
⚠️ Partnership Track Pressure
For associates pursuing partnership, any perceived weakness during evaluation years feels catastrophic. Taking leave for mental health treatment, reducing hours, or showing vulnerability about psychological struggles during the period when partnership decisions are made seems to guarantee career damage. This creates impossible bind: address depression and potentially derail partnership trajectory, or suffer through years of untreated mental illness to preserve career prospects. Most choose the latter, allowing depression to worsen while maintaining professional facade.
The culture around hours and availability particularly affects depression. Law firms operate on implicit understanding that attorneys should always be available—evenings, weekends, vacations are merely locations where you continue working. This eliminates recovery time essential for managing depression. You can’t establish regular sleep schedules when client emergencies occur at midnight. You can’t maintain consistent therapy appointments when court dates and deadlines shift unpredictably. You can’t create boundaries that protect mental health when your professional identity revolves around unlimited availability.
The competitive nature of legal practice creates additional cultural toxicity. Associates compete for partner attention, partners compete for client origination credit, firms compete for rankings and prestige. This zero-sum environment makes vulnerability dangerous—if you show weakness, someone else gains advantage. Depression becomes secret you hide from colleagues who might use perceived limitations against you in subtle status competitions.
Many attorneys describe their firms as psychologically isolating despite being surrounded by colleagues. The nature of legal work—confidential client matters, adversarial positioning, competitive evaluation systems—prevents genuine connection. You can’t discuss what you’re actually working on, you can’t admit struggles without professional risk, you can’t trust that support offered would be free of career consequences. This isolation is particularly dangerous for depression, which both causes and is worsened by social disconnection.
The profession’s relationship with substance use compounds depression risk. Legal culture has historically normalized heavy drinking—client dinners, firm events, networking functions revolve around alcohol. For attorneys using alcohol to manage work stress or numb depressive symptoms, this environment enables rather than challenges problematic patterns. What starts as stress management becomes dependence that worsens underlying depression while creating additional problems.
Navigating Confidentiality and Professional Disclosure
Understanding the Real Risks and Available Protections
One of the primary barriers preventing attorneys from seeking mental health treatment is concern about confidentiality and professional consequences. These concerns aren’t paranoia—there are genuine complexities around mental health disclosure in the legal profession that require careful navigation.
The bar admission process historically included mental health questions that deterred law students from seeking treatment. Many jurisdictions have reformed these questions to focus on current impairment rather than diagnosis or treatment history, but concerns persist. Attorneys worry that having mental health treatment on record—even confidential treatment—could somehow surface in bar admission, reinstatement proceedings, or fitness evaluations. The fear is that seeking help for depression could create paper trail that affects professional standing.
The reality is more nuanced. Most states now ask only about current conditions that impair ability to practice law, not about past treatment or diagnosis. Seeking therapy for depression isn’t reportable unless the depression currently prevents you from practicing competently. But the historical legacy of punitive mental health questions has created lasting culture of fear around treatment-seeking, even where legal frameworks have evolved.
Insurance-based mental health care creates additional confidentiality concerns. When you use insurance for therapy, claims create records that include diagnostic codes. These records theoretically fall under HIPAA protection, but attorneys—professionally trained to spot potential vulnerabilities—worry about discovery in malpractice cases, disclosure requirements in other legal proceedings, or future complications they can’t currently foresee. For risk-averse professionals, any paper trail feels threatening.
Firm-provided Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) offer another confidentiality dilemma. While EAPs are confidential by design, attorneys often distrust that confidentiality given the inherent conflict: the firm pays for the service and receives utilization data, creating theoretical pathway for information to flow back to employer. Whether or not this actually happens, the perceived risk prevents many attorneys from using available resources.
“I delayed getting help for two years because I was terrified about bar disclosure requirements. When I finally understood that seeking treatment wasn’t reportable, I was angry at myself for suffering unnecessarily—and angry at the profession for creating an environment where that fear felt reasonable.”
– Litigation attorney, three years into treatment
The solution to these confidentiality concerns is private-pay treatment outside insurance systems. When you pay directly for therapy without involving insurance, no claims are filed, no diagnostic codes are recorded, no paper trail is created beyond the therapeutic relationship itself. This approach provides maximum confidentiality protection while allowing you to get needed treatment without professional risk.
Private-pay therapy is more expensive upfront than insurance-covered treatment, but many attorneys find the confidentiality protection worth the cost. Consider the calculation: the financial investment in genuinely confidential treatment is far less than the potential career costs of having mental health treatment become part of your professional record or discoverable in future proceedings. For attorneys who can afford it, private pay provides peace of mind that lets them engage fully in treatment without constant worry about implications.
Some attorneys work with therapists who don’t even use their legal names in appointment systems or billing, providing additional anonymity layer for those with particularly high profile practices or acute confidentiality concerns. These arrangements are perfectly legitimate when structured appropriately and address the reality that for some legal professionals, even theoretical confidentiality risks feel intolerable.
It’s worth noting that confidentiality concerns, while genuine, can also become rationalization for avoiding treatment that feels threatening for other reasons. Part of effective therapy sometimes involves examining whether confidentiality fears are proportionate to actual risk or if they’re serving defensive function—a socially acceptable reason not to address painful psychological issues. A good therapist helps you navigate both the genuine confidentiality complexities and the ways anxiety might amplify those concerns beyond their actual significance.
Evidence-Based Treatment for Attorney Depression
Therapeutic Approaches That Work for Legal Professionals
Effective treatment of depression in attorneys requires approaches adapted to legal culture and professional demands:
🧠 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Legal Thinking
CBT is highly effective for depression and particularly well-suited to attorneys who already think analytically. Treatment involves identifying cognitive distortions—catastrophizing about mistakes, all-or-nothing thinking about performance, overgeneralizing from single negative events—and developing more balanced thought patterns. For attorneys, this often means learning to apply the evenhanded analysis you use professionally to your own internal experience rather than the harsh self-criticism that typically dominates. The challenge is that skills that make you excellent attorney (spotting problems, thinking critically) require intentional modification when applied to yourself.
⚖️ Values-Based Decision Making
Many attorneys experience depression partly because their daily work has become disconnected from the values that drew them to law originally. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps identify core values and examine where current life aligns or conflicts with those values. This isn’t about leaving law—it’s about finding ways to practice that feel more congruent with what genuinely matters to you. For some, this means shifting practice areas; for others, it means setting different boundaries or reframing the meaning of work you’re already doing.
💊 Medication Consideration
Many attorneys resist psychiatric medication due to concerns about cognitive effects, stigma, or philosophical preference for non-pharmaceutical approaches. But moderate to severe depression often responds better to combined therapy and medication than either alone. Modern antidepressants typically don’t impair the cognitive sharpness attorneys rely on—many describe thinking more clearly on medication because depression’s cognitive fog lifts. Psychiatrists specializing in professional populations understand these concerns and can discuss medication options with attention to maintaining professional function while addressing symptoms.
🔄 Addressing Perfectionism
Perfectionism is both professional asset in law and significant depression risk factor. Treatment involves learning to distinguish between healthy high standards and pathological perfectionism that creates constant dissatisfaction and self-criticism. This doesn’t mean lowering standards—it means developing more flexible self-evaluation that can recognize good work without requiring flawless work, accepting mistakes as learning rather than proof of inadequacy, and building self-worth on broader foundation than perfect performance in every matter.
Treatment timelines for depression vary considerably. Some attorneys experience significant improvement within eight to twelve weeks of starting therapy and/or medication. Others require six months or longer to achieve substantial symptom reduction, particularly if depression has been present for years before seeking treatment. The severity of depression, presence of complicating factors like substance use, and consistency of treatment engagement all affect trajectory.
One challenge specific to attorneys: the analytical skills that serve you professionally can interfere with therapy if you approach treatment as intellectual exercise rather than emotional work. Insight into why you’re depressed doesn’t automatically alleviate depression. Effective treatment requires actually feeling and processing emotions, not just understanding their origins cognitively. Therapists working with attorneys often need to explicitly address this tendency to intellectualize rather than experience.
The relationship between professional demands and treatment consistency poses practical challenges. Therapy works best with regular, consistent sessions, but legal practice creates unpredictable schedule disruptions. Trials, closings, and court appearances inevitably conflict with standing therapy appointments. This is why flexible scheduling and therapist understanding of legal demands matters significantly. Some attorneys benefit from intensive periods of more frequent sessions during calmer work periods, with less frequent maintenance sessions during busy times.
Many attorneys initially approach therapy with concrete goals: “fix my depression so I can function better at work.” While improved functioning is certainly an outcome, effective treatment often requires examining larger questions about whether current work situation is sustainable long-term, whether professional success at current cost is worth it, and what kind of life and career you actually want independent of external expectations. These explorations can feel threatening because they might lead to conclusions that require significant life changes.
What the Research Shows
Scientific research on lawyer mental health provides sobering context for understanding depression in the profession.
Prevalence Data: Studies consistently find that attorneys experience depression at rates significantly higher than general population. Research published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine found that 28% of licensed attorneys struggle with depression, compared to approximately 7-8% in the general population. Rates are particularly elevated among junior associates and attorneys in high-pressure practice areas like litigation and corporate law.
The First-Year Effect: Longitudinal research tracking law students shows marked decline in psychological wellbeing during first year of law school that persists throughout legal education and into practice. Students enter law school with psychological health comparable to general population but show elevated rates of depression, anxiety, and substance use by end of first year. This suggests something about legal training itself—not just practice demands—creates vulnerability.
The Autonomy Factor: Research on predictors of attorney wellbeing consistently identifies autonomy and control as critical factors. Lawyers who experience higher autonomy in their work show significantly lower rates of depression regardless of hours worked. This helps explain why some practice settings create more psychological risk than others—it’s not just workload but degree of control over how that work is accomplished.
Gender Differences: Female attorneys report higher rates of depression than male counterparts, though this gap has been narrowing in recent studies. Contributing factors include work-life integration challenges, experiences of discrimination and harassment, and pressure to outperform to overcome gender bias. These systemic issues create additional psychological burden beyond the baseline challenges all attorneys face.
Understanding the research makes clear that attorney depression isn’t individual weakness or inability to handle stress—it’s predictable response to specific structural and cultural factors in legal practice.
Frequently Asked Questions
In most jurisdictions, no. Recent reforms to bar admission questions focus on current impairment rather than treatment history. Simply seeking therapy for depression is not reportable in most states unless your condition currently prevents you from practicing competently. That said, requirements vary by jurisdiction, so it’s worth checking your specific state bar rules. The larger point: millions of attorneys successfully practice while managing depression with treatment, and seeking help is both ethically responsible and legally protected in most circumstances. The fear of professional consequences often exceeds actual risk significantly.
You’re not required to disclose specific medical conditions to your employer. If you need time off for mental health treatment, you can take medical leave without specifying that it’s for depression or therapy. Under FMLA (if your firm qualifies), you’re entitled to medical leave with general medical certification, not detailed diagnosis. For shorter absences like regular therapy appointments, many attorneys simply block calendar time without explanation or use generic descriptions. Some describe it as “medical appointments” which is accurate without being specific. The key is knowing you have legal protections around medical privacy even while employed.
This depends on depression severity and current workload sustainability. Mild to moderate depression can often be managed while continuing full practice, especially once treatment begins showing effects. Severe depression may require temporary workload reduction to create space for recovery—trying to maintain unsustainable pace while severely depressed often prolongs the condition and risks more serious consequences like complete breakdown or malpractice. Treatment should include honest assessment of whether current work structure is compatible with recovery or if temporary modifications are necessary. Some attorneys need to reduce hours initially, then return to full capacity as depression improves.
This is important question that shouldn’t be answered while acutely depressed. Depression distorts judgment and makes everything feel hopeless, including your career. Before making major decisions like leaving law, treat the depression and then reassess from more stable psychological place. Some attorneys do ultimately decide law isn’t right fit, but that decision should come from clear-headed evaluation, not depressive hopelessness. Others find that treating depression allows them to continue practicing with better boundaries, different specialty, or modified structure that feels sustainable. The sequence matters: stabilize mental health, then make career decisions.
Look for therapists who specifically mention working with attorneys or high-achieving professionals in their practice descriptions. During initial consultation, ask about their experience with legal professionals and their understanding of law firm culture. A good therapist for attorneys understands billable hour pressure, partnership dynamics, confidentiality concerns, and the specific ways legal training affects psychological patterns. They should be able to schedule flexibly around unpredictable demands and shouldn’t be surprised by the intensity of legal practice. Geographic location matters less now with telehealth—you can work with specialized therapists anywhere in your state.
This is extremely common among attorneys and requires direct attention in treatment. Alcohol temporarily reduces stress and numbs depressive feelings, making it feel like effective coping. But it worsens depression over time, creates dependence, and often leads to additional problems that compound original issues. Effective treatment addresses both depression and problematic substance use together—they’re interconnected and treating one without the other typically doesn’t work. Be honest with your therapist about alcohol use; they’re not there to judge but to help develop healthier coping strategies. If use has progressed to dependence, specialized addiction treatment may be necessary before or alongside depression treatment.
When to Seek Professional Help
Not every period of stress or sadness requires professional treatment, but certain patterns indicate you should seek help:
Your depression is affecting work quality or professional judgment. If you’re missing deadlines, making uncharacteristic errors, struggling to concentrate during client meetings, or finding that analytical thinking that usually comes naturally now requires enormous effort, your depression is impairing professional function. This isn’t just personal wellbeing issue—it’s ethical obligation to ensure you can provide competent representation.
You’re experiencing persistent physical symptoms without medical explanation. Depression manifests physically: chronic fatigue despite adequate sleep, unexplained pain, digestive problems, changes in appetite and weight. If your physician has ruled out medical causes and suggests stress or mental health as factors, treating the underlying depression becomes health priority.
You’re using substances to manage work stress or mood. If alcohol, cannabis, or other substances have become your primary coping mechanism for legal practice demands or depressive symptoms, you’ve developed pattern that will worsen both the depression and create additional problems. This requires direct professional intervention.
You’re having thoughts of self-harm or that others would be better off without you. These thoughts indicate severe depression requiring immediate attention. Contact 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) for crisis support and seek ongoing treatment with therapist and potentially psychiatrist. These are symptoms of treatable condition, not accurate reflections of reality.
Your relationships are seriously suffering or you’re completely isolated. If your partner is expressing serious concern, if you’ve withdrawn from all social connection, or if you’re unable to be present with family because depression consumes all emotional resources, the relational costs have become severe. Depression both causes and is worsened by isolation, creating cycle that requires professional help to break.
You’ve tried to “tough it out” for months or years without improvement. The cultural expectation that you should be able to handle depression without help is false. Depression is medical condition that often requires treatment. If you’ve been suffering for extended period hoping it will resolve on its own, seeking professional help isn’t weakness—it’s recognizing that condition requires treatment just like any other medical issue would.
How CEREVITY Can Help
CEREVITY specializes in providing mental health care designed for attorneys and other high-achieving professionals who need genuinely confidential, professionally informed treatment for depression.
We understand legal culture and the specific ways it intersects with mental health. This isn’t generic therapy adapted to attorney clients—it’s treatment grounded in deep familiarity with law firm dynamics, billable hour pressure, partnership politics, and the particular psychological vulnerabilities legal training creates. You won’t spend sessions explaining why missing a deadline feels catastrophic or why perfectionism isn’t something you can simply choose to stop.
Maximum confidentiality through private-pay structure addresses the legitimate concerns attorneys have about mental health records. We don’t bill insurance, create no claims records, generate no diagnostic codes that could theoretically surface in future proceedings. Your treatment remains completely private with no paper trail beyond the therapeutic relationship itself. For attorneys who need even additional protection, we can arrange alternative name use in appointment systems and communications.
Flexible scheduling accommodates the realities of legal practice. We understand that depositions run long, trial dates shift, and client emergencies create schedule chaos. Sessions can be scheduled early morning, evening, or weekend to fit around professional demands. We offer both standard fifty-minute sessions and extended formats for attorneys who prefer less frequent but more intensive appointments. The goal is making treatment accessible within your actual life constraints rather than adding therapy as another obligation you’re failing to meet.
Treatment combines evidence-based approaches for depression with attention to the specific issues attorneys face: perfectionism and self-criticism, values-based decision making about career and practice structure, boundary setting in profession that demands unlimited availability, addressing substance use that may have developed as coping mechanism, and rebuilding life dimensions that legal practice has consumed.
We coordinate with psychiatrists when medication evaluation would be beneficial, ensuring you work with prescribers who understand professional populations and can address concerns about cognitive effects or other impacts on practice. Many attorneys benefit from combined therapy and medication, particularly for moderate to severe depression, but medication decisions should be made with full understanding of your professional requirements.
Our approach recognizes that treating depression often involves examining larger questions about career sustainability and life structure. We support you in making intentional decisions about your practice and career from place of clarity rather than depressive distortion, whether those decisions involve staying in current role with better boundaries, transitioning to different practice area or setting, or ultimately leaving law for different path. The goal is your genuine wellbeing and sustainable life, not forcing you to tolerate unsustainable situation.
Ready to Address Your Depression?
If you’re an attorney in California struggling with depression, you don’t have to choose between getting help and protecting your professional standing.
Specialized therapy offers genuinely confidential treatment that understands both the clinical treatment of depression and the unique demands of legal practice, with maximum privacy protection, flexible scheduling, and approaches designed for the specific challenges attorneys face.
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About Trevor Grossman, PhD
Dr. Trevor Grossman is a licensed clinical psychologist at CEREVITY, a boutique concierge therapy practice serving high-achieving professionals throughout California. With specialized training in executive psychology and entrepreneurial mental health, Dr. Grossman brings deep expertise in the unique challenges facing leaders, attorneys, physicians, and other accomplished professionals.
His work focuses on helping clients navigate high-stakes careers, optimize performance, and maintain psychological wellness amid demanding professional lives. Dr. Grossman’s approach combines evidence-based therapeutic techniques with an understanding of the discrete, flexible care that busy professionals require.
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⚠️ Medical Disclaimer
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical, therapeutic, or legal advice. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, contact 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or visit your nearest emergency room.
