Dr. Chheda – 9-8-8. This is the number that you should program into all of your cell phones, including your children’s cell phones. 9-8-8. This is the help line, this is the crisis line, this is the suicide line – whatever you wanna call it.

9-8-8. You can text it, you can call it whenever you are just feeling low, whenever your child is feeling low, especially your early teens, teenagers.

It has been proven that the one thing that helps is reaching out and talking to somebody. They can call somebody at 9-8-8, they can text somebody. It is answered by a live person. There is no bot, it is answered by a live person, and that connection, that human connection, is what helps.