Montgomery Mental Health Hotline
Free, confidential support for Montgomery residents — available 24/7.
⚠ Safety Notice
If you or someone you love is in immediate danger, call 911.
If you’re having thoughts of suicide or are in emotional crisis, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
The Mental Health Hotline is a support and resource line, not a substitute for emergency services.
Mental health struggles are often alarming and distressing. Being unable to control your thoughts, feelings and actions can leave you feeling embarrassed, worthless and hopeless. You are not alone in that. More than 57 million American adults live with a mental illness, and plenty of people in Montgomery are among them.
Montgomery is the capital of Alabama and the seat of Montgomery County. The city played a central role in the Civil Rights Movement and is now home to a diverse population of more than 200,000. It offers a strong economy, deep history, a vibrant arts scene and plenty of parks and community spaces. It also has residents who are struggling, the same as anywhere else.
The Mental Health Hotline can help you work out where to turn. Calling is free and confidential, and the line is open 24/7. Call 866-903-3787 to ask about mental health resources and treatment options in the Montgomery area, including anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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The State of Mental Health in Montgomery
Statewide figures published by NAMI in February 2021 and by the Alabama Department of Public Health show how widely this reaches:
- Around 794,000 people in Alabama live with a mental illness.
- Mental illness affects about 214,000 Alabama adults severely enough to interfere with their ability to care for themselves and others.
- 43% of Alabama adults reported symptoms of anxiety or depression in 2021.
- 44,000 adolescents aged 12 to 17 in Alabama live with depression.
- Suicide was the 12th leading cause of death in Alabama as of the state’s 2020 health assessment.
Support has not kept pace with that need. Almost 3 million Alabamians live in areas federally designated as short of mental health professionals, and among adults who did not get care they needed, 49.6% pointed to cost.
Options for Montgomery Hotlines
The resources below serve Montgomery and the surrounding River Region, starting with the Mental Health Hotline and moving outward to statewide and national lines. If you are dealing with an emergency right now, call 911, or call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. For options elsewhere in the state, see our Alabama mental health hotline page.
Montgomery Mental Health Statistics to Know
City-level modelling from the CDC puts Montgomery near the top of the 100 cities we cover for one measure in particular: how residents rate their own health. Roughly a quarter of adults here describe their health as fair or poor, which is the tenth highest rate in that group and well above the typical American city.
Sources: Montgomery figures are model-based estimates from the CDC PLACES 2025 release, built on 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data: 21.5% of adults reported a depression diagnosis (95% CI 18.4–24.9), 25.7% rated their health as fair or poor (95% CI 23.1–28.6), 17.6% reported 14 or more poor mental health days in the past month, and 27.6% said they lack the social and emotional support they need. The provider ratio is a statewide figure from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps by way of UAB Medicine’s 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment. The statewide figures listed earlier were published in 2020 and 2021.
Help Is Here
Low support for mental health can leave you feeling alone and stuck. Montgomery does have real options, from a 24-hour crisis center to outpatient care that works on a sliding scale, and the hard part is usually knowing which one fits.
The Mental Health Hotline is free to call, confidential and open 24 hours a day. Call 866-903-3787 to ask about your options and get pointed toward support in the Montgomery area.
Call when you’re ready.