Five Ways to Wellbeing:

  1. CONNECT – Smile
  2. BE ACTIVE – Step Outside
  3. TAKE NOTICE – Be Curious
  4. KEEP LEARNING – Try Something New
  5. GIVE – Seeing yourself, and your happiness, linked to the wider community can be incredibly rewarding and will create connections with the people around you.
 

Eight Key Steps to Help Suicide Prevention:

  1. TAKE ALL THREATS SERIOUSLY
  2. ASK THE PERSON TO TELL YOU WHAT IS WRONG
  3. LISTEN AND OFFER SUPPORT
  4. REMOVE ANYTHING THAT COULD BE DANGEROUS
  5. DON’T LEAVE THE SUICIDAL PERSON ALONE
  6. BE POSITIVE AND POINT OUT CHOICES
  7. DON’T PROMISE CONFIDENTIALITY
  8. GET PROFESSIONAL HELP
 
 

We are a listening service. We provide a 24/7 confidential, non-judgemental opportunity to callers to explore their feelings and emotions especially when they are in despair or suicidal. Have you family and relationship problems, financial worries, depression, mental health problems, loneliness or stress and anxiety.

Do you have suicidal thoughts or are self-harming? Or know someone who is? Have you or your family been bereaved by suicide?

Jigsaw Galway is a free, non- judgemental and confidential support service for young people (15-25) living in Galway city and county. Jigsaw is not a crisis support service.

Group meetings and telephone/ email support service and a number of programmes based on principles of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

In an emergency ring 999 or 112.

Local GPs
The Mindful Doctors, 090 97 41657
Portumna Medical Practice, 090 97 42444
Clonfert Medical Centre, 090 97 41146