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By supporting Shout in the Big Give Kind²Mind, you'll be helping to provide free, confidential and 24/7 support by text message to people in mental health crisis, whether that's due to stress, worry, loneliness or suicidal thoughts.
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Situation
Living with poverty causes stress and emotional strain and has a significant impact on mental health and wellbeing, often exacerbating existing mental health struggles. Through the cost of living crisis, Shout has seen a significant increase in texters with financial difficulties seeking urgent mental health support. Highest demand comes from the most deprived areas of the UK. Suicide is the most common theme in conversations with people struggling with debt, followed by depression and anxiety.
Solution
Shout provides free, 24/7 mental health support from trained volunteers with clinical supervision. People in financial difficulty are specifically seeking out our accessible, confidential and anonymous text-based mental health support, due to the sensitive nature of their concerns. Shout uses SMS so doesn’t require data or a smartphone, meaning that we can help financially vulnerable audiences wherever they are in the UK, at no cost to them.