{"id":440755,"date":"2026-01-27T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440755\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:16:11","slug":"mental-health-emergency-support-available-via-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440755\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health emergency support available via 1926"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fcc2p\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Twitter\" class=\"heateor_sss_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Mental%20health%20emergency%20support%20available%20via%201926&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fcc2p\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Whatsapp\" class=\"heateor_sss_whatsapp\" href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Mental%20health%20emergency%20support%20available%20via%201926%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fcc2p\" title=\"Whatsapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.lk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newswire-icon.jpg\" style=\"width:108px; height:20px; margin-top:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s National Institute of Mental Health has urged the public to seek immediate help during mental health emergencies, highlighting its 24-hour hotline service.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said individuals experiencing psychological distress or crisis situations can call the National Mental Health Institute hotline at 1926 for urgent support and guidance.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities continue to encourage people to seek professional help and reach out to mental health services, stressing that early intervention can prevent serious outcomes. (Newswire)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-220789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FB_IMG_1769506311331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s National Institute of Mental Health has urged the public to seek immediate help during mental health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-440755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}