Resources
If you need help now — and where to turn next.
Every entry here is a public, verified crisis line or an official peer-support site — never a treatment-facility intake number. Call any of them just to talk; you never have to be sure it's "serious enough."
Crisis & safety lines
988 Suicide Crisis Helpline
24/7
Call or text 988 — free, anywhere in Canada, completely confidential. If shame or fear of discovery has you thinking about harming yourself, start here. This pattern is treatable, and tonight is survivable.
ShelterSafe — if you're in danger at home
24/7 local lines via the map
If a partner's behaviour includes intimidation, threats, or violence, that is a safety issue first. ShelterSafe maps free, confidential family-violence support across Canada.
Free, anonymous peer support — tonight if you want it
These are the fellowships' own official sites — no sign-up, no cost, no names required. Which one fits is the real question, and our neutral comparison of all eight (plus two for partners) exists to answer it.
Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) — official site
Meetings in person and online
A free, anonymous fellowship where each member defines their own recovery plan in writing, with support. Not the same organization as SA — see our neutral comparison before choosing a first meeting.
Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) — official site
Meetings in person and online
The widest lens among the fellowships: romantic obsession, relationship patterns, and fantasy are explicitly in scope — for people whose struggle isn't primarily sexual behaviour.
S-Anon — for family and partners
A peer fellowship for people affected by someone else's sexual behaviour. Free, anonymous, and independent of whatever the other person does or doesn't do.
COSA — for anyone affected
A peer fellowship for those whose lives have been affected by another person's compulsive sexual behaviour — partners, former partners, family members.
We are not affiliated with any fellowship named here; descriptions are our own words, and meeting information lives on the official sites only.
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