Indianapolis Mental Health Resources
If you’re looking for mental health help in Indianapolis, you don’t have to work out which system you belong to before you make a call. The Mental Health Hotline can talk through what you’re dealing with and point you toward the kind of support that fits. Call 866-903-3787 any hour of the day or night.
If this is an emergency
If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911.
If you are in emotional distress or thinking about suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24/7.
In Marion County, 988 can dispatch the Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center mobile team, and Eskenazi answers its own 24-hour number at 317-880-8485.
The Mental Health Hotline is an information and referral service. It is not a substitute for emergency services.
Whatever brought you here counts. It might be depression that has flattened everything out, or drinking that got away from you, or one night that scared you badly enough that you’re still thinking about it. You don’t need a diagnosis, a referral, or an emergency to pick up the phone.
If leaving the house isn’t going to happen tonight, 988 still gets you a person, and in Marion County it can get you a visit. The people answering can send out the Sandra Eskenazi Mobile Crisis Recovery Team, a peer recovery specialist and a clinician who come to wherever you are, at any hour. When it’s less urgent than that, dial 211, enter your ZIP code and press 3 for the state’s Be Well Crisis Helpline. For the slower questions, about medication, or insurance, or what to do when someone in your family won’t get help, NAMI Indiana answers weekdays at 800-677-6442, though you’ll often leave a message and hear back the next day.
You don’t have to know which of these you want before you call. Whether this is for you or for someone you care about, the Mental Health Hotline can talk through what’s going on and help you narrow it down, at 866-903-3787. The fuller list of Indiana mental health resources sits on the state page.
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Where to Get Help in Indianapolis
These are the numbers and addresses worth keeping. Some are for the worst night of your life and some are for a Tuesday afternoon when you just can’t face the week, and both of those are reasons to call. If you’re not sure what happens when you dial, here’s what 988 actually does.
Mental Health in Indianapolis, by the Numbers
Three numbers for Indianapolis, from the most recent round of CDC city-level modeling, covering roughly 675,000 adults here.
Figures come from the CDC PLACES 2025 release, which models city-level estimates from 2023 BRFSS survey responses for adults 18 and over. Indianapolis sits 23rd of the 100 cities in this series for diagnosed depression, where 1 is the highest rate, and just under the Indiana statewide figure of 26.2 percent. Model-based estimates describe a population, not any one person in it.
Working out where to start is often the hardest part, especially when you’re already worn down and every listing sends you somewhere different. The Mental Health Hotline can talk through what’s going on and help you find the right next step in Indianapolis, at any hour. Call 866-903-3787 whenever you’re ready.