If you need help

    Safety & Support

    If you or someone you know is being pressured, controlled, or harmed — because of health decisions, fertility, marriage, family expectations, or being told to stay silent about what you're going through — you are not alone. Help is available, confidential, and free.

    This includes situations where someone:

    • Blames you (or your partner) for not having children

    • Forces you to undergo medical procedures you don't want

    • Controls your access to healthcare or money

    • Threatens you with divorce or family rejection because of fertility

    • Takes you to unregulated practitioners against your will

    • Uses cultural or religious pressure to control your decisions

    • Pressures you to hide or ignore a health condition to avoid shame or family conflict

    • Controls or dismisses your mental health struggles as weakness or a family matter

    • Discourages you from seeking medical help to protect family reputation

    Confidential support

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    Samaritans

    Free, 24/7, confidential. Anyone, any reason.

    MIND Infoline

    Mental health support and information.

    Emergency services

    Emergency only.

    National Domestic Abuse Helpline

    Free, confidential, 24/7. Interpreters available.

    Karma Nirvana

    Honour-based abuse and forced marriage. Understands South Asian cultural context.

    Southall Black Sisters

    Support for Black and minority ethnic women experiencing domestic and sexual violence.

    Halo Project

    Specialist support for victims of honour-based abuse and forced marriage.

    Forced Marriage Unit

    Government helpline for forced marriage. Advice for anyone concerned.

    CALM

    Campaign Against Living Miserably. Support for men. Free, 5pm–midnight.

    NHS 111

    Urgent (non-emergency) medical and mental-health triage.

    Your safety comes first

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